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 (15): Mayajalakramakrodha 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 (15): Māyājālakramakrodha Lokeśvara
Fig. 15A: Māyājālakramakrodha Lokeśvara
This is figure 15 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
15. Māyājālakramakrodha Lokeśvara. He presents a very fierce appearance with five faces terrible with protruding teeth, and eyes rolling in anger. His hair rises upwards like flames of fire. He stands in the Pratyālīḍha attitude and wears the tiger-skin. He has twelve arms, of which the six right carry the sword, the Vajra, the goad, the noose, the Triśūla and the arrow, and the six left hold the shield, the Cakra, the jewel, the deer-skin, the Kapāla and the Tarjanī with the noose.
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., Māyājālakramakrodha Lokeśvara].