Cintamanicakra Avalokitesvara
Gilt bronze
Cintamanicakra Avalokitesvara
CHINA; Tang dynasty
Cintamanicakra Avalokitesvara is described as having six arms and wearing a headdress that includes a Buddha image in the Cintamanicakra Avalokitesvara Sutra. The Bodhisattva is seated in the royal ease posture with the head resting on a hand. The figure wears a few pieces of jewelry and a number of stoles. Most of the hands are missing but they would normally hold a ruyi (wish-fulfilling talisman), prayer beads, a lotus, and Dharma wheel. Statues of this new form of Avalokitesvara gradually became more popular with the spread of Buddhism during the Tang dynasty, however, surviving gilt bronze statues are rare.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 264.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Cintamanicakra Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 264.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Cintamanicakra Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:264.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Cintamanicakra Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 264).
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