Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara
Gilt bronze
Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara
CHINA; Tang dynasty
The Bodhisattva’s heads are clustered around the five-leaf crown. Framing them is an openwork circular nimbus shaped like a wheel with a petal-shaped exterior decorated with vine-like designs. The figure stands in a slightly tribhanga posture with the raised right hand holding a willow branch and the left a vase. A few pieces of jewelry adorn the body, as well as a sacred thread and a long stole that cascades past the pedestal. The pedestal itself is a half sphere and is balanced on top of a reversed lotus platform that in turn rests on a hollow stand.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 311.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 311.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:311.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 311).
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