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 (70): Mahavajranatha 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 (70): Mahāvajranātha Lokeśvara
Fig. 70A: Mahāvajranātha Lokeśvara
This is figure 70 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
70. Mahāvajranātha Lokeśvara. He is three-faced and eight-armed, and stands on a lotus. He holds the rosary and the noose and displays the Abhaya and Varada poses in his four right hands. The three left shows the book, the Tridaṇḍi and the lotus, while the empty fourth rests near the navel.
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., Mahāvajranātha Lokeśvara].