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 (32): Shantasi 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 (32): Śāntāsi Lokeśvara
Fig. 32A: Śāntāsi Lokeśvara
This is figure 32 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
32. Śāntāsi Lokeśvara. He is one-faced and six-armed and stands on a lotus. His two principal hands are joined against his chest in forming the Dharmacakra mudrā. The other four hands show the rosary and the Varada pose in the right, and the book and the Abhaya mudrā 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., Śāntāsi Lokeśvara].