The Padmini Tara Shrine at the southwest. (This goddess is usually known
as Pandura [vasini] or "White-robed-one," but in Nepal she is
always Padmini). Padmini Tara is paired with Amitabha and ostensibly should
come after him in the circumambulation of the mandala/caitya. However, due
to the requirement that the Buddha Shaktis appear to the proper left of
the Buddhas (i.e., to the viewer's right) she must be placed after Ratnasambhava.
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