Yunmen Temple Avalokitesvara Pavillion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara
Clay and wood
Yunmen Temple Avalokitesvara Pavillion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara (detail)
Yunmen Temple Avalokitesvara Pavillion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara
CHINA, Hunan, Xiangtan
This form of Avalokitesvara is mentioned in the Great Compassion Dharani Sutra. The thousand arms of the Bodhisattva are arranged around the body and each hand has an eye featured in the palm. There are eight larger arms of which two steady the crown with a Buddha image at its apex. Another pair meet at chest level in anjali (reverence) mudra. Two others hold ritual instruments while the final pair is held downwards.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1430.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Yunmen Temple Avalokitesvara Pavillion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1430.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Yunmen Temple Avalokitesvara Pavillion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1430.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Yunmen Temple Avalokitesvara Pavillion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1430).
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