Nagarjuna System of Depicting the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas
The images on this page follow the iconographic description for depicting the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas based on the commentary of Nagarjuna.
The unique characteristics of the Nagarjuna system are the many and varied hand attributes held by at least thirty of the Thirty-five Buddhas. (Also see a block print set from Mongolia that follows the Nagarjuna system).
It has been suggested by Sakya Pandita and again later by Jonang Taranata that any system describing hand attributes to the Thirty-five Buddhas and alledging to be from an authentic original and early Indian source text is spurious.