The Indian Buddhist Iconography
by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya | 1958 | 51,392 words | ISBN-10: 8173053138 | ISBN-13: 9788173053139
This page contains an iconography image of 108 forms of Avalokiteshvara (13): Sukhavati Lokeshvara and represents of the book Indian Buddhist Iconography, based on extracts of the Sadhanamala English translation. These plates and illustrations represent either photographs of sculptures or line-drawing reproductions of paintings or other representations of Buddhist artwork.
108 forms of Avalokiteśvara (13): Sukhāvatī Lokeśvara
This is figure 13 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
13. Sukhāvatī Lokeśvara. He is one-faced, and six-armed, and sits on a lotus in the Lalita attitude. The first pair of hands exhibits the Dharmacakra-mudrā, the second pair carries the rosary and the book, and the third pair shows the Varada mudrā in the right and the water-pot in the left.
The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (The Watchful Lord) also called Padmapāṇi (Lotus bearer) is the spiritual son of the Dhyāni Buddha Amitābha. He is one of the most popular Bodhisattvas of the Buddhist Pantheon having as many as 108 different forms [viz., Sukhāvatī Lokeśvara].