Buddhist Deity: Avalokiteshvara (Eleven Faces Iconography)

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Avalokiteshvara (Eleven Faces)

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
- Standing
--- Gaganaraja
--- Eleven-faced, Eight Arms
--- Eleven-faced, Thousand Arms
--- Eleven-faced, Thousand and seventy arms
- Seated
--- Eleven-faced, eight arms
--- Eleven-faced, thousand arms
- Nyingma Tradition (Terma)
- Eleven Faces Outline
- Confusions: Universal Deities, Kunzang Gyalwa Dupa, Kunzang Gyalwa Gyatso
- Others...

Video: Avalokiteshvara: Eleven Faces

The differences between the forms can be condensed into six topics:
1. Origin and Chronology
2. Appearance of the faces
3. Number of main hands
4. Hand attributes
5. Retinue figures: number, identity & placement
6. Lineage

Thousand Arms Database Search: All Images | Painting | Sculpture | Mandala

Eight Arms Database Search: All Images | Painting | Sculpture | Mandala

Jeff Watt 5-2009 [updated 4-2020]

(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).