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Cundi (Buddhism)
(, ) is a buddha or bodhisattva venerated in Mahayana Buddhism, with emphasis of her practice in Vajrayana Buddhism. Her origins lie with a yakshini cult in Bengal and Orissa and her name in Sanskrit "connotes a prostitute or other woman of low caste but specifically denotes a prominent local ogress ... whose divinised form becomes the subject of an important Buddhist cult starting in the eighth century". Her cult spread with the Pala Empire, eventually becoming important in Tibetan Buddhism and Tangmi.
appears with eighteen arms on a lotus and is referred to as "Goddess of the Seventy Million ()".〔
==In Buddhist traditions==
While Cundi is less well known in Tibetan Buddhism, she is revered in Tangmi or East Asian esoteric Buddhism. In China, she is known as ''Zhǔntí Púsà'' (, "Cundi Bodhisattva") or ''Zhǔntí Fómǔ'' (, "Cundi Buddha-Mother"), while in Japan she is known as .
In late imperial China, early traditions of Tangmi were still thriving in Buddhist communities. Robert Gimello has also observed that in these communities, the esoteric practices of Cundi were extremely popular among both the populace and the elite.〔Gimello, Robert (2004). ″Icon and Incantation: The Goddess Zhunti and the Role of Images in the Occult Buddhism of China." In ''Images in Asian Religions: Texts and Contexts'' ed. Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara: pp. 71-85.〕
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