#amoghapasha

[arjuna-vallabha]

Amoghapasha thagka, Tibet

[kailasanath]

Bodhisattva Amoghapāśa

Great statue of Bodhisattva Amoghapāśa in the likeness of King Ādityavarman – proclaimed in the inscription on the back of the statue.

Singhasari Era, Sumatra, circa 1349 CE

National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta

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Arca BHAIRAWA Ditemukan di Padang Roco Sungai Lansat Dharmasraya

Arca BHAIRAWA Ditemukan di Padang Roco Sungai Lansat Dharmasraya

Dharmasraya, Sumbarlivetv – Arca BHAIRAWA ditemukan di Padang Roco Sungai Lansat Dharmasraya, dari naskah kuno yang ditulis oleh Mpu Prapanca bahwa hubungan kerajaan Jawa dan Melayu adalah hubungan diplomasi yang disebut Pamalayu dan dibuktikan ditemukan Prasasti Padang Roco yaitu Patung Bhairawa dan Amoghapasha. Pusat pemerintahan kerajaan Melayu terletak di Dharmasraya, diperkirakan di Padang…

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[dharmasculpture]

This very rare and unique finely modeled Buddha is decorated with hundreds of small Buddhas and elephants throughout. Lord Buddha is depicted standing in a straight pose on a square base, dressed in a short dhoti secured with a pendant belt. His eight radiating arms holding a vajra, ax, sutra, monkey, chakra, rosary (malas), kundika (vase) and phurpa, his broad face surmounted by a tall crown with a diminutive Amitabha nestled in his chignon. Amoghapasa represents a tantric form of Avalokiteshvara and is particularly popular in Nepal, where he is regarded as the tutelary deity of the Kathmandu Valley. A special rite, performed on the eighth day of the moon's brighter two weeks of each month was dedicated to him, and it is possible that this sculpture was the focus of such a ritual.

In this eight-armed form, Avalokiteshvara is known as Amoghapasha, “he whose noose is unfailing,” after the noose (pasha) he uses to remove impediments to enlightenment. The complexity of casting a multi-armed figure attests to the sophistication of the metal workers. A very unique style of Khmer art! http://www.dharmasculpture.com/category/new-arrivals.html

[magictransistor]

Amoghapasha The Unfailing Lasso, Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva & Buddhist Deity. Nepal. 1500s. 

Amoghapasha, unfailing lasso, refers to an unfailing compassion like a lasso which brings all sentient beings out of suffering and into a state of happiness leading to enlightenment. Amoghapasha is a complicated deity subject in Tantric Buddhist iconography. He is easily mistaken for Avalokiteshvara in most artistic depictions. The two deities are frequently conflated together by Western scholars. Sometimes Amoghapasha is described as a form, or emanation, of Avalokiteshvara and again at other times, such as with this mandala of Amoghapasha, a retinue figure while Avalokiteshvara is the central deity in the mandala.

[laclefdescoeurs]

A Thangka depicting Amoghapasha

Tibet, 19th Century

[english-tibetan-dictionary]

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don yod zhags pa - Amoghapasha, Unfailing Noose [RY]