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 (58): Maharatnakula 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 (58): Māhāratnakula Lokeśvara
Fig. 58A: Māhāratnakula Lokeśvara
This is figure 58 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
58. Māhāratnakula Lokeśvara. He is three-faced and six-armed and stands on a lotus. The head on the top represents Amitābha. He carries the sword, the Utpala and the rosary in his three right hands and the book, the lotus and the Utpala in the 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., Māhāratnakula Lokeśvara].