Four Arm Avalokitesvara Thangka

[Four arm Avalokitesvara Thangka]

Four arm Avalokitesvara Thangka, 18th century, Tibet, cloth, color, 125 cm high, 77 cm wide, 66 cm vertical and 45 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The Tibetan name of this Avalokitesvara is “Avalokitesvara with four arms”. The Lord is white, with four arms, a crown on his head, a topless body, his hands folded in front of his chest, a rosary in the upper right hand, and a lotus in the upper left hand. He sits on the lotus throne with his hands folded. The upper bound is the limitless light and the silent Avalokitesvara, and the lower bound is the Matou Mingwang. On the back of the Thangka, there is a white silk label, inscribed with a four-body inscription in Han, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan. The Chinese text reads: “On the seventh day of August of the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, Panchen Erdeni went to Danshuk to worship the benefit portrait of Avalokitesvara.”. This hall of Avalokitesvara Thangka is composed of 9 axes and is now fully preserved. Each god in the picture has a Tibetan name under it, and the time and location are marked on the white silk label on the back.