AVALOKITEŚVARA: Buddhist Paintings from Nepal, Selections by Robert Beer,
This exhibition, organised by Serindia Gallery, Bangkok ( see map for Gallery).
This exhibition is strated from 11 March - 25 April 2010. So if you are intrested in Buddhist Paintings i will recommend you to Visit This exhibition.
Visit Serindia Website to read more about this exhibition. If you are new to this blog, you may like to know who is Avalokiteshwor ? then visit My Older post to read Stories about Avlokiteshwor.
Here i am Posting the short description about Avalokiteshwor from Serindiagallery.com
Avalokiteśvara, the ‘Beholding Lord’, is the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron deity of Tibet, whose principal emanation is the Dalai Lama, and who is invoked by the famous six-syllable mantra: OM MA-NI PAD-ME HUM. In the Newar Buddhist tradition of Nepal he is commonly known as Lokeśvara, the ‘Lord of the World’, or as Mahakarunika, the ‘Great Compassionate One’, who has a hundred-and-eight different manifestations. And in China he is strongly identified with the Goddess of Mercy, Guan Shi Yin (觀世音), she who ‘Hears the Cries of this World’, who likewise has a hundred-and eight different manifestations.Why Avalokiteshwor has 11 head and 1000 arms ?
According to a popular legend Avalokiteśvara once vowed that he would first free all beings from suffering before attaining liberation himself, so he set about this task with great effort. But when he saw how few he had so far saved compared to how many still remained, his sudden despair caused his head and body to explode into many pieces. Seeing his plight, Amitabha Buddha then came swiftly to his aid, and from all the shattered fragments reconstructed his body into a far more powerful form, with eleven heads and a thousand arms, so that he was able to gaze compassionately over all beings in the ten directions and reach out to them with his many arms. Another legend tells how two lakes were formed from Avalokiteśvara’s tears of despair, and from these lakes arose the lotus-borne forms of Green and White Tara.
Avalokiteśvara is the principal Bodhisattva or ‘Spiritual Son’ of red Amitabha Buddha, who presides over the western direction as the ‘Lord of the Padma or Lotus Family’, whose symbol is a lotus. In the Newar tradition Lokeshvara most popular aspect is as Padmapani, the ‘Lotus-bearer’, who stands gracefully upon a lotus-pedestal while holding the stem of a lotus in his left hand. Lokeshvara is usually white or sometimes red in colour, with two, four, eight or a thousand arms, and his characteristic emblem is an antelope-skin that is draped over his left shoulder.
Although this Bodhisattva of Compassion is widely adored and venerated throughout the Buddhist world, many of his unique Newar aspects are still unknown outside the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. So we have chosen to present some of these rare aspects of Lokeshvara in this exhibition, along with those that are more widely known within the Indo-Tibetan or Mahayana Buddhist traditions.
Who is Robert Beer?
Thanka paintings in this exhibition is Selected by Robert Beer. His selections for this exhibition include pieces from living master painters in Nepal. So you may also like to know who is Robert Beer? he is author of the Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs
Robert Beer is internationally-renowned author of the Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs (Serindia Publications), and a specialist of Buddhist paintings from Nepal. He is one of the most gifted artists and lecturers, and it is a great opportunity to see Beer while he is in Bangkok. Beer is available at the gallery on March 13, 14 (Saturday and Sunday) from 4-8pm to introduce the exhibition and for one-on-one Q & A's.
On Tuesday 16 and 30 March (from 6:30pm) he will give a talk on Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, and Buddhist paintings of Nepal. He is available to answer your questions about the deities, the arts, and the artists who work in Kathmandu.
Some books By Robert Beer, where you can find his art works
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