Dimensions: 11-7/8" H

Bronze figure of the Chinese Bodhisattvas Buddha figure of standing Avalokiteshvara, Chaturbhuja. The All Seeing Lord with Four Hands, the bodhisattva of compassion from the Terma, Revealed Treasure lineage known as the Longchen Nyingtig, of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism as recorded by Jigme Lingpa (1729-1798). Peaceful appearance, very resplendent, peaceful and radiant. With downcast eyes under delicately arched brows, with the face slightly smiling, peaceful appearance, the hair is arranged in rows of coils that also cover the head, his ears have been traditionally pierced and elongated. On the crown of the head, the wisdom of all buddhas, is the Lord, source of all refuge gathered as one, in essence the Guru in the aspect of Amitabha, in the manner of the Lord of the Family, seated happily he holds upraised a bead mala and a lotus blossom. With four hands, the first right raised slightly above shoulders with fingers meet. The lower right hand with palm upfront and the lower left are relaxing straight to the ground holding a conch shell. the left hand raised slightly above shoulders holds the stem of a blue utpala flower blossoming above the shoulder. At the top of the head beneath a gemstone blazing with orange fire the blue hair is piled in a topknot, some falling loose across the shoulders, tied with golden flowers. Raised with two beautiful feet in standing posture, upon a moon disc and double lotus throne, adorned with many attractive silks and jewels, beautified with dark blue hair in tufts some loose. Extensive trace of gilt on surface, blue pigment and red pigment on the hair and foot rim.
Underside with incised quatrefoil flora-form petal visvavajra surrounding the centralized DaiJi.


LOT NOTES:

Guanyin or Guan Yin is the most commonly used Chinese translation of the bodhisattva known as Avalokitesvara. Guanyin refers to the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with compassion and venerated chiefly by followers of Mahayana Buddhist schools as practiced in the sinosphere. Guanyin also refers to the bodhisattva as adopted by other Eastern religions such as Daoism, where she is revered as an immortal, as well as Chinese folk religions, where the mythical accounts about Guanyin origins do not associate with the Avalokiteśvara described in Buddhist sutras.citation needed. She is often known as the "Goddess of Mercy" or the Mercy Goddess. The Chinese name Guanyin, is short for Guanshiyin, which means "The One Who Perceives the Sounds of the World". Some Buddhists believe that when one of their adherents departs from this world, they are placed by Guanyin in the heart of a lotus, and then sent to the western Pure Land of Sukhavati. Guanyin is often referred to as the "most widely beloved Buddhist Divinity" with miraculous powers to assist all those who pray to her, as is said in the Lotus Sutra and Karandavyuha Sutra. Some Buddhist and Christian observers have commented on the similarity between Guanyin and the Blessed Virgin Mary. This can be attributed to the representation of Guanyin holding a child in Chinese art and sculpture; it is believed that Guanyin is the patron saint of mothers and grants parents filial children, this apparition is popularly known as the "Child-Sending Guanyin"

Over all in EXCELLENT condition. With normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dents. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. Normal, consider ages and wear.
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