
Ṣaḍakṣarī Avalokiteśvara
Accession Nr.: | 69.32.1 |
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Type: | painting; textile; cakli |
Date of production: |
turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
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Place of production: |
Materials: | cotton canvas |
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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.