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 (55): Maharatnakirti 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 (55): Mahāratnakīrti Lokeśvara

Maharatnakirti Lokeshvara
Fig. 55A: Mahāratnakīrti Lokeśvara

This is figure 55 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

55. Mahāratnakīrti Lokeśvara. He is three-faced and six-armed and stands on a lotus. He holds the fruit, the Utpala and the conch in his three right hands, and displays the bow, the whip and the Namaskāra mudrā in his three 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., Mahāratnakīrti Lokeśvara].

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