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 (64): Maha-Abhayakari 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 (64): Mahā-Abhayakarī Lokeśvara

Maha-Abhayakari Lokeshvara
Fig. 64A: Mahā-Abhayakarī Lokeśvara

This is figure 64 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

64. Mahā-Abhayakarī Lokeśvara. He also is similar in form to No. 61, but the symbols in his hands are different. Here the god holds the book against the chest with his two principal hands, the Vajra and the rosary in his right, and the Ghaṇṭā and the Tridaṇḍi in his left.

Mahācandrabimba Lokeśvara. He is three-faced and six-armed and stands on a lotus. He holds the arrow, the Utpala and the fruit in his three right hands, and the bow, the Vajra and the Cakra in his three left. The head on the top probably represents Amitābha.

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., Mahā-Abhayakarī Lokeśvara].

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