1919,0101,0.2

Description

Scope and content : Ch. xl. 008. Silk painting representing Six-armed Avalokiteśvara (Kuan-yin), seated, with side-scenes and donors. Complete and in perfect condition; with border and suspension loops of coarse linen (now removed). Avalok. sits on pink and scarlet-tipped lotus with legs interlocked. His upper hands hold up discs of Sun and Moon, Sun in R. hand showing three-legged bird, Moon containing only tree; middle hands in vitarka-mudrā on either side of breast; lower hands on knees, R. holding rosary, L. flask. In front is small altar. He has only one head, crowned with massive tiara, on front of which is Dhyāni-buddha.