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 (17): Nilakantha 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 (17): Nīlakaṇṭha Lokeśvara
Fig. 17A: Nīlakaṇṭha Lokeśvara
This is figure 17 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
17. Nīlakaṇṭha Lokeśvara. He is one-faced and two-armed, and sits on a lotus in the Vajraparyaṅka attitude. He carries the bowl of gems in his two hands arranged in the Samādhi mudrā.
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., Nīlakaṇṭha Lokeśvara].