TY - JOUR
TI - Avalokiteśvara in Tibetan Buddhist art of the Later spread (Tib. phyi dar) of the Dharma. Image classification proposal, part 1.
AU - Grela, Joanna
TI - Avalokiteśvara in Tibetan Buddhist art of the Later spread (Tib. phyi dar) of the Dharma. Image classification proposal, part 1.
AB - 
	According to traditional Buddhist narratives and popular beliefs, Tibetans are a people chosen by Avalokiteśvara. Therefore, his worship and multitude, as well as diversity of his images are quite common both in temples and public areas. Unlike the widespread analyses where the Bodhisattva has been treated as a peaceful tutelary deity, and classifications of its images have been based on morphological features (i.e. the number of hands, heads, etc.) or by artistic styles and techniques. This paper proposes another approach by grounding images in Tantric Buddhism models used locally. In the first part of the article, the images of Avalokiteshvara are inscribed in the bodyspeech-mind models as well as the external, secret and the first of the three internal aspects of the Three Refuges, also known as the Three Jewels, which covers a much wider set of iconographic material than usually considered.
VL - 2020
IS - 12 (2/2020)
PY - 2020
SN - 2450-2561
C1 - 2450-6249
SP - 27
EP - 40
DO - 10.4467/24506249PJ.20.007.13446
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/pjacns/article/avalokitesvara-in-tibetan-buddhist-art-of-the-later-spread-tib-phyi-dar-of-the-dharma-image-classification-proposal-part-1
KW - Avalokiteśvara
KW - maṇi mantrā
KW - Three Jewels
KW - Three Roots
KW - Three Refuges
KW - Tibetan art