A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang (27 September 2024 – 23 February 2025) showcases over 50 manuscripts, printed documents and pictorial works, many from the 'Library Cave' in the cave ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

However, holy people are reincarnations of deities and great saints of the past: for example, the Dalai Lamas are reincarnations of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. When a “living god” dies — as ...

Mahinda Kodituwakku, the self-proclaimed ‘Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’ has been granted bail on the orders of Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court. When the case was called today, Magistrate Thilina Gamage ...

Mahinda Kodituwakku, the self-proclaimed ‘Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’, has been remanded until 24 January, on orders of the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court. Kodituwakku was arrested on 15 January, on ...