Ṣaḍakṣarī Avalokiteśvara

Mongolian Collection

Accession Nr.: 69.36.1
Type: painting; textile; cakli
Date of production:
turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
Place of production:
Materials: cotton canvas
Techniques: paint
Dimensions: height: 5.2 cm
width: 4.4 cm
A cakli depicting Sadaksari Avalokitesvara four-armed bodhisattva (Tib.: yi ge drug pa). He has the appropriate attributes in his four hands. Adorned with jewelry and wearing a goat skin over his dhoti. The Dalai Lamas are his incarnations. Tibetan iscription on its back.