Item: Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva & Buddhist Deity)

Tibetan: སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས། Chinese: 观音菩萨

(item no. 86319)

Origin Location	Northern India
Date Range	800 - 899
Lineages	Buddhist
Material	Bronze
Collection	Alan Robert Naftalis

Alternate Names: Lokeshvara Avalokita Lokanata Lokanatha Mahakarunika

Classification: Deity

Interpretation / Description

Avalokiteshvara. Kashmir or Swat, 8th/9th century, bronze, with early Indic script inscription along base. approx 7"/18cm Compare: Seated Vairochana, collection Metropolitan Museum of Art (ex collection Samuel Eilenberg), illustrated in the Lotus Transcendant (Martin Lerner & Steven Kossak) catalog # 89, page 119; Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 11C, 11G, 11H, 12D & 12H.

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