Item: Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva & Buddhist Deity) - Hala Hala Lokeshvara

[19] Hala Hala Lokeshvara. 'Lord of the World Hala Hala, with three faces and six hands. The body and main face are white, the right blue, the left yellow and each has three eyes. With six hands, the three right hold, [the gesture of] supreme generosity, a bead garland and an arrow; the three left, touching the breast of a goddess of [the] desire [realm] sitting upon the knee, a white lotus stem with three branches and a bow. With a skull garland and half moon as a crown. Wearing jewel ornaments and a tiger skin as a lower garment. Seated in a precious cave in the lalitasana [posture]. At the right side is a snake coiled around a trident. At the left, resting above a lotus is a flower filled skullcup. (From an edited version of the Bari Gyatsa by Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

At the upper left is Amitabha Buddha, red in colour. At the upper right is Jangsem Dawa Gyaltsen (11/12 century). At the bottom center is 'Secret' Yama Dharmaraja, red in colour. To the left side is a symbol representing the Eight Auspicious Symbols.

Jeff Watt [Uploaded 7-2014]