Buddhist Deity: Amoghapasha Main Page
Amoghapasha Masterworks- Art History
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- Amoghapasha: The Unfailing Lasso
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Amoghapasha, which means unfailing lasso, refers to an unfailing compassion like a lasso which brings all sentient beings out of suffering and into a state of happiness leading to enlightenment. Amoghapasha is a complicated deity subject in Tantric Buddhist iconography. He is easily mistaken for Avalokiteshvara in most artistic depictions. The two deities are frequently conflated together by scholars. Sometimes Amoghapasha is described as a form, or emanation, of Avalokiteshvara and again at other times a retinue figure when Avalokiteshvara is the central deity in the mandala. It is easiest to refer to the first as Amoghapasha Avalokiteshvara and the the second as Amoghapasha deity. The first when appearing in a basic form, and central in a five deity configuration, is identical to Khasarpana Avalokiteshvara. Amoghpasha as a secondary figure is male, red in colour, with one face and four hands, in a standing posture.
Study Topics:
- Who is Amoghapasha?
- Confusion between Amoghapasha and Lokehvara.
- Importance of Amoghapasha.
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Jeff Watt 2008 [updated 4-2011, 4-2017, 12-2019]
bod brgyud nang bstan lha tshogs chen mo bzhugs so, 2001. ISBN 7-5420-0816-1. Page 494-506.
