Ṣaḍakṣarī Avalokiteśvara

Mongolian Collection

Accession Nr.: 69.32.1
Type: painting; textile; cakli
Date of production:
turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
Place of production:
Materials: cotton canvas
Techniques: paint
Dimensions: height: 7.7 cm
width: 6.7 cm
A cakli depicting Sadaksari Avalokitesvara four-armed bodhisattva (Tib.: yi ge drug pa). He has the appropriate attributes in his four hands, and his blue hair tied up in a top knot surmounted by the head of Amitabha. Adorned with jewelry and wearing a goat skin over his dhoti. The Dalai Lamas are his incarnations. Tibetan iscription on its back.