Nilakanta Lokeshvara
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Nilakanta Lokeshvara (T. མགྲིན་པ་སྔོན་པོ་; C. Qingjing Guanyin 靑頸觀音; English "Blue-throated Lokeshvara"). A form of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara distinctive for having a blue throat or neck.
The deity's blue throat is derived from a story about the Hindu god Shiva, in which Shiva drinks a poisnonous liquid and he contains the poison in his throat so that it does not harm the rest of his body.[1]
This is a rare form of Avalokiteśvara that appears infrequently.[1]
Name variations
Sanskrit:
- Nilakanta Lokeshvara
- Nīlakaṇṭha Avalokiteśvara
Chinese:
Tibetan:[4]
- མགྲིན་པ་སྔོན་པོ་
- མགྲིན་སྔོན་
- ནཱི་ལ་ཀཎ་ཋ་
Gallery
Lokeshvara, Nilakanta (Blue Necked), Himalayan Art Resources
Media related to Nīlakaṇṭha Avalokiteśvara at Wikimedia Commons
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nilakanta Lokeshvara: The Blue-Throated One on YouTube
- ↑
靑頸觀音, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
- ↑ 靑頭, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
- ↑
མགྲིན་པ་སྔོན་པོ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
