Thangka Avalokitesvara first appears as a mere name is the lists at the beginning of the Vimalakriti, and later, the Lotus Sutra. His firt significant role is in the sukhavati-vyuha Sutra, where he and Mahasthamaprapta are Amitabha Buddha’s chief attendants. They are the only bodhisattvas in Sukhavati whose light is boundless; owing to them, that world-realm is luminous everywhere and always. Both used to be men in this world; on dying they went to Sukhavati.
Thangka Avalokitesvara represent in different country
The Thangka Avalokitesvara sutra was incorporated into the Lotus Sutra as late as the third century C.E. To this day, however, it circulates as an independent work in China and Japan, where it is the main item in the liturgy of the Kuan-yin cult. A few verses at the end describe Sukhavati and claim that Avalokitesvara now stands to the left of the Amitabha and fans him. The rest of the text says nothing about Amitabha but depicts Avalokitesvara as an omnipresent, omnipotent savior-deity subordinate to no one. He has purified his voes for countless aeons under millions of Buddhas. He possesses all virtues and is especially rich in love and compassion. He rescues those who invoke him from fire, shipwreck, falling off a precipice, missiles, armed robbers and enemies, execution, chains and shackles, witchcraft, demons, wild beasts, snakes, and thunderbolts. His skill in means is infinite: Through it he takes whatever form will help living beings. He adopts the guise of a Buddha, a bodhisattva, a disciple, Brahma, Indra, and other gods. Like Manjusri, he has plyed the role of a Buddha and will play it again, without getting “trapped” in nirvana. In this respect the celestial bodhisattvas are said to be superior to the Buddhas.
Thangka Avalokitesvara looks like
The origin of this bodhisattva-figure is obscure. The name Avalokitesvara is composed of avalokita (observed; looked down upon or observing; looking down) and isvara (lord). The general idea is that the Bodhisattva observes the world and responds to the cries of living beings. He is also called Lokesvara, “Lord of the World.” A variant name Avalokitasvara, in which “svara” means sound or voice underlies the Chinese short name Kuan-yin, “regarder of the world’s souns,” is beautifully clear but does not correspond to any known Sanskrit form of the name. Avalokitesvara is praised for his voice, which resembles thounder or the tides. He is usually represented in art as a bejeweled lay man wearing a high crown bearing a corss-legged image of Amitabha. He often holds a lotus in his hand. In Tibet, Avalokitesvara was revered as the country’s patron, protector, and founder of the Tibetan rece. Tibetans everywhere worshiped him for his compassionate response to the sufferings and trials of life. In China. Avalokitesvara was eventually represented as a woman. At present she is worshiped as a mandonna of gentle compassion throughout east Asia. with the Chinese calling her Kuan-yin; the Japanese, Kannon; the Koreans, Kwanse um; an the Vietanamese, Quan-am.
Thangka Avalokitesvara ‘Mantra’
The mantra of Avalokitesvara is ‘OM MANI PADME HUM’, OR ‘OM MANI PEME HUM’, nor these mantra when we recite this mantra will help to us to get remove from our negative sin. with this mantra if we practice then there saying when we have spiritual that time we can go to his pure land or Amitabha pure land. and this six saleable mantra represent of six suffering world from where we should to get free from suffering. and each mantra represent as Buddha himself, means any of realm when we will get birth if we practice we can developed buddhichitta mind. when we habe this buddhichitta mind it will help to us to get less suffering.
