To Tibetans he was divine, the direct reincarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the ancestor of the Tibetan people. As far as the outside world was concerned, the Dalai Lama, like Tibet ...

The willow branch iconography can be traced to the complex sinicization of Avalokiteshvara in relation to the developments in Chinese worship of the deity. The willow branch attribute is not seen in ...

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Seated in Royal Ease and the Head of Buddha are among the works that will be returned. They will remain on view at the museum while “arrangements” are being ...

There is a particular future Buddha, a bodhisattva called Avalokiteshvara, and he is first found in texts which probably date from the first century AD. Initially he operates by himself ...

The Apollo 11 hatch door, for example, has quite a few details. The models range from space, to the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, to a model of the remnants of a supernova. There are models of the ...

I have overseen M.A. theses in a range of topics in Asian art – from Japan’s Superflat movement, to Indonesian kris holders, to Thai Buddhist tattooing, to representations of the bodhisattva ...

According to the Dalai Lama's website, the "Dalai Lamas are believed to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, ...

Sackler Gallery Head of a woman Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Bodhisattva Maitreya or Avalokiteshvara Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Beak-spouted vessel Freer ...

A Panel Discussion Monday, November 4 12:00 Lunch 12:15 - 1:30 Program Mandel Center for the Humanities Reading Room (303) Presented by both the Mandel Center for the Humanities “Humanities for Global ...

Courtesy Sotheby's Other major sales included an exemplar of Qing Dynasty porcelain sculpture: a figure of Puxian (a bodhisattva ... gilt-copper alloy figure of Avalokiteshvara from 14th-century ...