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[[Image:Avalokiteshvara.JPG|frame|'''Avalokiteshvara''' courtesy of Lama Tsondru Sangpo]] | [[Image:Avalokiteshvara.JPG|frame|'''Avalokiteshvara''' courtesy of Lama Tsondru Sangpo]] | ||
'''Avalokiteshvara''' (Skt. ''Avalokiteśvara''; Tib. ''Chenrezik''; [[Wyl.]] ''spyan ras gzigs'' or ''spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug'') is said to be the essence of the speech of all the [[buddha]]s and incarnation of their [[compassion]]. As one of the [[Eight Great Close Sons]], he is usually depicted as white in colour and holding a lotus. He is of special importance to Tibetans, so much so that he is sometimes described as the patron deity of Tibet. Among his emanations are King [[Songtsen Gampo]] — who is credited with authoring the ''[[Mani Kabum]]'', a cycle of teachings and practices dedicated to the deity — as well as the lineages of [[Dalai Lama Incarnation Line|Dalai Lama]]s and [[Karmapa Incarnation Line|Karmapa]]s. | '''Avalokiteshvara''' (Skt. ''Avalokiteśvara''; Tib. སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་, ''Chenrezik''; [[Wyl.]] ''spyan ras gzigs'' or ''spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug'') is said to be the essence of the speech of all the [[buddha]]s and incarnation of their [[compassion]]. As one of the [[Eight Great Close Sons]], he is usually depicted as white in colour and holding a lotus. He is of special importance to Tibetans, so much so that he is sometimes described as the patron deity of Tibet. Among his emanations are King [[Songtsen Gampo]] — who is credited with authoring the ''[[Mani Kabum]]'', a cycle of teachings and practices dedicated to the deity — as well as the lineages of [[Dalai Lama Incarnation Line|Dalai Lama]]s and [[Karmapa Incarnation Line|Karmapa]]s. | ||
==Forms== | ==Forms== | ||
===Masculine Forms=== | ===Masculine Forms=== | ||
====One Face and Two Arms==== | ====One Face and Two Arms==== | ||
*Lokanatha (Wyl. '' 'jig rten mgon po'') | *Lokanatha (Tib. <big>འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་</big>, Wyl. '' 'jig rten mgon po'') | ||
*Khasarpana or [[Khasarpani]] | *Khasarpana or [[Khasarpani]] | ||
*Padmanarteshvara (Wyl. ''padma gar gyi dbang phyug'') | *Padmanarteshvara (Tib. <big>པདྨ་གར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་</big>, Wyl. ''padma gar gyi dbang phyug'') | ||
*Nilakhanta | *Nilakhanta | ||
*[[Padmapani]] | *[[Padmapani]] | ||
*Simhanada (Wyl. ''seng ge nga ro'') | *Simhanada (Tib. <big>སེང་གེ་ང་རོ་</big>, Wyl. ''seng ge nga ro'') | ||
*Tailokyavashamkara | *Tailokyavashamkara | ||
*Vajradharma (Wyl. ''rdo rje chos'') | *Vajradharma (Tib. <big>རྡོ་རྗེ་ཆོས་</big>, Wyl. ''rdo rje chos'') | ||
====One Face and Four Arms==== | ====One Face and Four Arms==== | ||
*Chaturbhuja | *Chaturbhuja | ||
*Jinasagara (Wyl. ''rgyal ba rgya mtsho'') | *Jinasagara (Tib. <big>རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་</big>, Wyl. ''rgyal ba rgya mtsho'') | ||
*Shadakshrilokeshvara (Wyl. ''spyan ras gzigs phyag bzhi pa'') | *Shadakshrilokeshvara (Tib. <big>སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཕྱག་བཞི་པ་</big>, Wyl. ''spyan ras gzigs phyag bzhi pa'') | ||
*Rakta Lokeshvara | *Rakta Lokeshvara | ||
====One Face and Eight Arms==== | ====One Face and Eight Arms==== | ||
*Amoghapasha (Wyl. ''don shags'') | *Amoghapasha (Tib. <big>དོན་ཤགས་</big>, Wyl. ''don shags'') | ||
====Three Faces==== | ====Three Faces==== | ||
*Chintachakra | *Chintachakra | ||
====Eleven Faces==== | ====Eleven Faces==== | ||
*Ekadashamukha (Wyl. ''bcu gcig zhal'') | *Ekadashamukha (Tib. <big>བཅུ་གཅིག་ཞལ་</big>, Wyl. ''bcu gcig zhal'') | ||
*Sahasrabhujalokeshvara (Wyl. ''phyag stong zhal bcu gcig'') | *Sahasrabhujalokeshvara (Tib. <big>ཕྱག་སྟོང་ཞལ་བཅུ་གཅིག་</big>, Wyl. ''phyag stong zhal bcu gcig'') | ||
*Vajragarbha | *Vajragarbha | ||
===Feminine Forms=== | ===Feminine Forms=== | ||
Revision as of 10:58, 27 January 2011
Avalokiteshvara (Skt. Avalokiteśvara; Tib. སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་, Chenrezik; Wyl. spyan ras gzigs or spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug) is said to be the essence of the speech of all the buddhas and incarnation of their compassion. As one of the Eight Great Close Sons, he is usually depicted as white in colour and holding a lotus. He is of special importance to Tibetans, so much so that he is sometimes described as the patron deity of Tibet. Among his emanations are King Songtsen Gampo — who is credited with authoring the Mani Kabum, a cycle of teachings and practices dedicated to the deity — as well as the lineages of Dalai Lamas and Karmapas.
Forms
Masculine Forms
One Face and Two Arms
- Lokanatha (Tib. འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་, Wyl. 'jig rten mgon po)
- Khasarpana or Khasarpani
- Padmanarteshvara (Tib. པདྨ་གར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wyl. padma gar gyi dbang phyug)
- Nilakhanta
- Padmapani
- Simhanada (Tib. སེང་གེ་ང་རོ་, Wyl. seng ge nga ro)
- Tailokyavashamkara
- Vajradharma (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་ཆོས་, Wyl. rdo rje chos)
One Face and Four Arms
- Chaturbhuja
- Jinasagara (Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. rgyal ba rgya mtsho)
- Shadakshrilokeshvara (Tib. སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཕྱག་བཞི་པ་, Wyl. spyan ras gzigs phyag bzhi pa)
- Rakta Lokeshvara
One Face and Eight Arms
- Amoghapasha (Tib. དོན་ཤགས་, Wyl. don shags)
Three Faces
- Chintachakra
Eleven Faces
- Ekadashamukha (Tib. བཅུ་གཅིག་ཞལ་, Wyl. bcu gcig zhal)
- Sahasrabhujalokeshvara (Tib. ཕྱག་སྟོང་ཞལ་བཅུ་གཅིག་, Wyl. phyag stong zhal bcu gcig)
- Vajragarbha
Feminine Forms
- Guanyin (Chinese)/Kannon(Japanese)
Further Reading
- Bokar Rinpoche, Chenrezig, the Lord of Love (San Francisco: Clearpoint Press, 1991)
- Jamgön Mipham, A Garland of Jewels, trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso (Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008)
- John Blofeld, Bodhisattva of Compassion—The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin (Boston: Shambhala, 1988)
- Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of the Mind (Boston: Shambhala, 1998), 'Invoking the Buddha of Compassion to Open Our Hearts' in chapter 15.