檢視 Avalokiteshvara 觀世音菩薩的原始碼

[[Image:Avalokiteshvara.JPG|frame|'''Avalokiteshvara''' courtesy of Lama Tsondru Sangpo]]
'''Avalokiteshvara''' (Skt. ''Avalokiteśvara''; Tib. སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་, ''Chenrezik''; [[Wyl.]] ''spyan ras gzigs'' or ''spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug'') is said to be the essence of the speech of all the [[buddha]]s and incarnation of their [[compassion]]. As one of the [[Eight Great Close Sons]], he is usually depicted as white in colour and holding a lotus. He is of special importance to Tibetans, so much so that he is sometimes described as the patron deity of Tibet. Among his emanations are King [[Songtsen Gampo]] — who is credited with authoring the ''[[Mani Kabum]]'', a cycle of teachings and practices dedicated to the deity — as well as the lineages of [[Dalai Lama Incarnation Line|Dalai Lama]]s and [[Karmapa Incarnation Line|Karmapa]]s.

==Forms==
===Masculine Forms===
====One Face and Two Arms====
*Lokanatha (Tib. <big>འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་</big>, Wyl. '' 'jig rten mgon po'')
*Khasarpana or [[Khasarpani]]
*Padmanarteshvara (Tib. <big>པདྨ་གར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་</big>, Wyl. ''padma gar gyi dbang phyug'')
*Nilakhanta
*[[Padmapani]]
*Simhanada (Tib. <big>སེང་གེ་ང་རོ་</big>, Wyl. ''seng ge nga ro'')
*Tailokyavashamkara
*Vajradharma (Tib. <big>རྡོ་རྗེ་ཆོས་</big>, Wyl. ''rdo rje chos'')

====One Face and Four Arms====
*Chaturbhuja
*Jinasagara (Tib. <big>རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་</big>, Wyl. ''rgyal ba rgya mtsho'')
*Shadakshrilokeshvara (Tib. <big>སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཕྱག་བཞི་པ་</big>, Wyl. ''spyan ras gzigs phyag bzhi pa'')
*Rakta Lokeshvara

====One Face and Eight Arms====
*Amoghapasha (Tib. <big>དོན་ཤགས་</big>, Wyl. ''don shags'')
====Three Faces====
*Chintachakra
====Eleven Faces====
*Ekadashamukha (Tib. <big>བཅུ་གཅིག་ཞལ་</big>, Wyl. ''bcu gcig zhal'')
*Sahasrabhujalokeshvara (Tib. <big>ཕྱག་སྟོང་ཞལ་བཅུ་གཅིག་</big>, Wyl. ''phyag stong zhal bcu gcig'')
*Vajragarbha
===Feminine Forms===
*Guanyin (Chinese)/Kannon(Japanese)

==Further Reading==
*[[Bokar Rinpoche]], ''Chenrezig, the Lord of Love '' (San Francisco: Clearpoint Press, 1991)
*[[Mipham|Jamgön Mipham]], ''A Garland of Jewels'', trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso (Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008)
*John Blofeld, ''Bodhisattva of Compassion—The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin'' (Boston: Shambhala, 1988)
*[[Tulku Thondup]], ''The Healing Power of the Mind'' (Boston: Shambhala, 1998), 'Invoking the Buddha of Compassion to Open Our Hearts' in chapter 15.

==Internal Links==
*[[Balaha]]
*[[Mani Kabum]]
*[[Mani mantra]]
*[[Noble Tamer of Beings]]

==External Links==
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/avalokita/index.html Avalokiteshvara outline page at Himalayan Art Resources]

*[http://rigpavihara.blogspot.fr/2014/06/the-night-flowering-lotus-of-compassion.html Visualization and Recitation of the Six Syllable Mantra of Chenresig by Ju Mipham]

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