Avalokiteshvara


Edition
Length

Image Sizes

Paper/Canvas Sizes
100
40"x59"
44"x63"
500
16.6"x24"24"x30"
Open
6.6"x9.5"8.5"x12"
Artist: Unknown
Release of Edition: 17 June 2006
Medium: Limited Edition Giclee Prints
Material: Matte UV-protected Canvas or 255gsm Somerset Velvet Rag Paper, Ultrachrome Ink
Markings: Embossed with the MiMa Publishers stamp and numbered
Certificate of Authenticity: Available on request


detail at 5.5
detail of max. size at 1:1

17"x24" Enlargement:

(At 72dpi this enlargement is only one tenth of the resolution of the print on paper. Added to that, it's a compressed jpeg, so the resulting image on the screen only hints at the clarity and detail of the print.)


Avalokiteshvara

Chaturbhuja Avalokiteshvara Mandala (Tibetan: chen re zi chag shi pa'i kyil khor. English: the Mandala of the Four-armed All Seeing Lord)

Centrally located, peaceful in appearance, white in color, with one face and four hands, the first pair are clasped at the heart holding a wishing jewel. The right hand upraised holds a prayer bead mala and the left a lotus flower. Adorned with a crown of gold and jewels, necklaces, bracelets and anklets, he wears a green scarf across the shoulders and a red lower garment. The legs are folded together in vajra posture atop a moon disc and red lotus flower surrounded by a blue nimbus and green areola.

"To the Lord unstained by faults, white in color, the head adorned with the perfect Buddha, gazing on beings with eyes of compassion; to Avalokiteshvara I bow." (The great Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo, 557-649).

At the top is the Buddha Amitabha, red, with the hands placed in the lap in the mudra of meditation. At the right side is Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava holding a vajra and skullcup, richly attired and wearing the lotus hat. White and Green Tara are on the foreground.

Avalokiteshvara is foremost a bodhisattva arising from the sutra tradition and secondly a tutelary deity of the Vajrayana tradition. He is represented in all 4 tantra classifications in a variety of forms, singular, complex mandalas, with a consort and wrathful in appearance.

Notes by Bhikshu Karma Tinley, who gratefully acknowledges the Himalayan Art Library.


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