A sculpted image of Eleven-Faced Thousand-Armed Kannon Bodhisattva (十一面千手観音菩薩) at Juhōji Temple (寿宝寺) in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, dating to the Heian period (794-1185) according to documents found encased within the image during repairs in the 1660′s, one of the few to be indeed endowed with a thousand hands.










