Avalokiteshvara
(item no. 90537)

Tibet

1700 - 1799

Uncertain Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art


 


Chaturbhuja (Shadaksari), Avalokiteshvara (Tibetan: chag shi [yig drug], chen re zi. English: the Four-handed [Six-letters] All-seeing One). The bodhisattva of compassion, patron deity of Tibet, surrounded by a host Amitabha Buddhas.

Peaceful, with one face and four hands the first pair are held folded at the heart. The upraised right holds a crystal mala (beads) and the left a lotus flower.

Jeff Watt 5-2000


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1700 - 1799 (18th Century) Part III
Buddhist Deity: Avalokiteshvara (four hands)



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