[Tiger Skirt Avalokitesvara Thangka]
Tiger Skirt Avalokitesvara Thangka, 18th century, Tibet, cloth color, 125 cm high, 77 cm wide, 66 cm vertical and 45 cm horizontal
The Tibetan name of this Avalokitesvara is “Avalokitesvara in Tiger Skirt”. He is white, wears a crown, wears three knots of hair, and is decorated with Mani beads. He is topless, wears a tiger skin skirt, has four arms, and his hands are folded in front of his chest. He holds a rosary in the upper right hand, and a lotus in the upper left hand. He sits on the throne of the sun lotus with his hands crossed. The upper boundary is the Infinite Light and the Supreme Zhongdunba, and the lower boundary is the Six-Arm Big Black Sky. The back of the portrait is pasted with a white silk label. The book has a four-body inscription in Han, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan. The Chinese text is: “On the seventh day of August, the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, Panchen Erdeni went to Danshuk to worship the benefit portrait of Avalokitesvara. The third from the left”.
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