The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c24.57
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c24.57
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57. Mahāsahasrasūryya Lokeśvara. He is eleven-faced and eight-armed and stands on a lotus. Each of his two principal hands exhibits the Abhaya pose against his chest. The remaining hands show the rosary, the Cakra and the Varada pose in the three right hands and the Utpala, the bow charged with an arrow, and the vessel in the three left. This form of Lokeśvara is very popular in Tibet.