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 (34): Vajroshnisha 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 (34): Vajroṣṇīṣa Lokeśvara
Fig. 34A: Vajroṣṇīṣa Lokeśvara
This is figure 34 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
34. Vajroṣṇīṣa Lokeśvara. He is one-faced and six-armed, and is represented as standing on a lotus. His three right hands show the rosary, the Tridaṇḍī and the Abhaya pose, and his three left the book, the noose and the Varada pose.
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., Vajroṣṇīṣa Lokeśvara].