Manjushri

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Tibet 1200 - 1299 Buddhist Lineage Collection of Anna Maria Rossi & Fabio Rossi (喜马网)

Manjushri as the large central figure with white Avalokiteshvara standing on the viewer's left and green Vajrapani on the right. (See the Manjushri Main Page, Outline Page and Forms of Manjushri Page).

Manjushri is orange in colour with one face and two hands. The proper right hand is extended across the knee in gesture of generosity while the left holds the stem of a blue utplala flower to the heart. The utpala blossoms next to the ear and supports a text of the Prajnaparamita Sutra wrapped in a red covering. He is adorned with a crown, ornaments and silks of various colour, seated in vajra posture with the right leg folded over the left. The seat below is a moon disc atop a single lotus of blue and red petals above a lion and elephant supported throne placed on a foundation of idealized blue stone. An ornate temple architecture rises behind Manjushri as the throne back (torana) with two columns decorated with elephants and a blue Sharabha creatures.

At the viewer's left is the standing figure of Avalokiteshvara, white in colour, holding the stem of a white lotus flower at the heart; blossoming next to the ear. On the right side is Vajrapani, green in colour, holding a vajra scepter in the right hand and a vajra handled bell in the left. Both are adorned with crowns, jewels and silks typical of bodhisattva figures. They both stand on a moon disc atop a red lotus seat with thick colourful stems flowers and buds.

In the top register are the Seven Buddhas of the Past: Vipashyin, Shikhin, Vishvabhu, Krakuchanda, Kanakamuni, Kashyapa, Shakyamuni. They each stand looking towards the middle of the register, each performing a different gesture with the two hands. At the far right is a bodhisattva figure, orange in colour, likely to be the bodhisattva Maitreya of the Mahayana sutras - the future Buddha. At the center of the register, inside the top of an architectural temple structure, adorned with ribbons, is a small figure of a standing buddha making the bodhigarbha (or vajra mudra) gesture with the two hands at the heart. This image is possibly a repeat of Shakyamuni Buddha making the gesture that would later become a defining characteristic of the symbolic buddha of the Tantric systems - Vairochana - the universal buddha.

At the upper right and left of the central Manjushri are two smaller figures of Manjushri, one red and one white. They both hold a sword of wisdom in the upraised right hand and a Prajnaparamita text in the left held at the heart. The red form can be either Stira Chakra Manjushri or the Kriya Tantra form known by the name of a famous praise written by five hundred panditas of Nalanda monastery university in Bihar, India.

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附图从左到右为14 - 18,

14. Manjushri, Vadi Raja (two arms)
15. Manjushri, Namasangiti (four arms)
16. Manjushri, Namasangiti (six arms)
17. Manjushri, Manjuvajra (six arms)
18. Manjushri, Manjuvajra (red, two arms, riding a peacock)

肃火斤

顶礼 文殊菩萨圣尊

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顶礼 文殊菩萨

肃火斤

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Manjushri

China 1600 - 1699 Buddhist Lineage Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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顶礼 文殊菩萨