Avalokitesvara

The beautifully executed figure of Avalokitesvara is characterized by sharp features and half-closed eyes suggestive of spiritualism. Seated on a double-petalled lotus and inlalitasanaattitude, his right hand displays thevarada mudrawhile the left holds the stem of possibly a lotus (now lost). An effigy of dhyani Buddha Amitabha is on his matted crest. An impression of a seal is on the left side of the back slab. Usually the seal is an estampage of the Buddhist creed of ‘ye dharma….’