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[[Image:Avalokiteshvara.JPG|frame|'''Avalokiteshvara''' courtesy of Lama Tsondru Sangpo]]
[[Image:Avalokiteshvara.JPG|frame|'''Avalokiteshvara''' courtesy of Lama Tsondru Sangpo]]
'''Avalokiteshvara''' (Skt. ''Avalokiteśvara''; Tib. སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་, ''Chenrezik''; [[Wyl.]] ''spyan ras gzigs'' or ''spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug'') is said to be the essence of the speech of all the [[buddha]]s and incarnation of their [[compassion]]. As one of the [[Eight Great Close Sons]], he is usually depicted as white in colour and holding a lotus. He is of special importance to Tibetans, so much so that he is sometimes described as the patron deity of Tibet. Among his emanations are King [[Songtsen Gampo]] — who is credited with authoring the ''[[Mani Kabum]]'', a cycle of teachings and practices dedicated to the deity — as well as the lineages of [[Dalai Lama Incarnation Line|Dalai Lama]]s and [[Karmapa Incarnation Line|Karmapa]]s.
'''Avalokiteshvara''' (Skt. ''Avalokiteśvara''; Tib. [[སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་]] or སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག, ''Chenrezik'' or ''chenrezig wangchuk'', [[Wyl.]] ''spyan ras gzigs'' or ''spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug'') is said to be the essence of the speech of all the [[buddha]]s and the incarnation of their [[compassion]]. As one of the [[Eight Great Close Sons]], he is usually depicted as white in colour and holding a lotus. He is of special importance to Tibetans, so much so that he is sometimes described as the patron deity of Tibet. Among his emanations are King [[Songtsen Gampo]] — who is credited with authoring the ''[[Mani Kabum]]'', a cycle of teachings and practices dedicated to the deity — as well as the lineages of [[Dalai Lama Incarnation Line|Dalai Lama]]s and [[Karmapa Incarnation Line|Karmapa]]s.


==Forms==
==Forms==
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====One Face and Four Arms====
====One Face and Four Arms====
*Chaturbhuja
*Chaturbhuja
*Jinasagara (Tib. <big>རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་</big>, Wyl. ''rgyal ba rgya mtsho'')
*Jinasagara (Tib. <big>[[རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་]]</big>, Wyl. ''rgyal ba rgya mtsho'')
*Shadakshrilokeshvara (Tib. <big>སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཕྱག་བཞི་པ་</big>, Wyl. ''spyan ras gzigs phyag bzhi pa'')
*Shadakshrilokeshvara (Tib. <big>སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཕྱག་བཞི་པ་</big>, Wyl. ''spyan ras gzigs phyag bzhi pa'')
*Rakta Lokeshvara
*Rakta Lokeshvara


====One Face and Eight Arms====
====One Face and Eight Arms====
*Amoghapasha (Tib. <big>དོན་ཤགས་</big>, Wyl. ''don shags'')
*Amoghapasha (Tib. <big>དོན་ཞགས་</big>, Wyl. ''don zhags'')
 
====Three Faces====
====Three Faces====
*Chintachakra
*Chintachakra
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==Internal Links==
==Internal Links==
*[[Balaha]]
*[[Balaha]]
*[[Lord of the Dance]]
*[[Mani Kabum]]
*[[Mani Kabum]]
*[[Mani mantra]]
*[[Mani mantra]]
*[[Noble Tamer of Beings]]
*[[Noble Tamer of Beings]]
*''[[The Basket's Display]]''


==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/avalokita/index.html Avalokiteshvara outline page at Himalayan Art Resources]
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/avalokita/index.html Avalokiteshvara outline page at Himalayan Art Resources]
*{{LH|topics/avalokiteshvara|Avalokiteśvara Series on Lotsawa House}}
*{{LH|topics/avalokiteshvara|Avalokiteśvara Series on Lotsawa House}}


[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]]
[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]]
[[Category:Bodhisattvas]]
[[Category:Bodhisattvas]]
[[Category:Eight Close Sons]]

Revision as of 09:38, 21 June 2019

Avalokiteshvara courtesy of Lama Tsondru Sangpo

Avalokiteshvara (Skt. Avalokiteśvara; Tib. སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ or སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག, Chenrezik or chenrezig wangchuk, Wyl. spyan ras gzigs or spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug) is said to be the essence of the speech of all the buddhas and the incarnation of their compassion. As one of the Eight Great Close Sons, he is usually depicted as white in colour and holding a lotus. He is of special importance to Tibetans, so much so that he is sometimes described as the patron deity of Tibet. Among his emanations are King Songtsen Gampo — who is credited with authoring the Mani Kabum, a cycle of teachings and practices dedicated to the deity — as well as the lineages of Dalai Lamas and Karmapas.

Forms

Masculine Forms

One Face and Two Arms

  • Lokanatha (Tib. འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་, Wyl. 'jig rten mgon po)
  • Khasarpana or Khasarpani
  • Padmanarteshvara (Tib. པདྨ་གར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wyl. padma gar gyi dbang phyug)
  • Nilakhanta
  • Padmapani
  • Simhanada (Tib. སེང་གེ་ང་རོ་, Wyl. seng ge nga ro)
  • Tailokyavashamkara
  • Vajradharma (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་ཆོས་, Wyl. rdo rje chos)

One Face and Four Arms

  • Chaturbhuja
  • Jinasagara (Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. rgyal ba rgya mtsho)
  • Shadakshrilokeshvara (Tib. སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཕྱག་བཞི་པ་, Wyl. spyan ras gzigs phyag bzhi pa)
  • Rakta Lokeshvara

One Face and Eight Arms

  • Amoghapasha (Tib. དོན་ཞགས་, Wyl. don zhags)

Three Faces

  • Chintachakra

Eleven Faces

  • Ekadashamukha (Tib. བཅུ་གཅིག་ཞལ་, Wyl. bcu gcig zhal)
  • Sahasrabhujalokeshvara (Tib. ཕྱག་སྟོང་ཞལ་བཅུ་གཅིག་, Wyl. phyag stong zhal bcu gcig)
  • Vajragarbha

Feminine Forms

  • Guanyin (Chinese)/Kannon(Japanese)

Further Reading

  • Bokar Rinpoche, Chenrezig, the Lord of Love (San Francisco: Clearpoint Press, 1991)
  • Jamgön Mipham, A Garland of Jewels, trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso (Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008)
  • John Blofeld, Bodhisattva of Compassion—The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin (Boston: Shambhala, 1988)
  • Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of the Mind (Boston: Shambhala, 1998), 'Invoking the Buddha of Compassion to Open Our Hearts' in chapter 15.

Internal Links

External Links