{"id":743,"date":"2014-09-29T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=743"},"modified":"2015-04-17T12:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T16:11:20","slug":"pilgrimage-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/29\/pilgrimage-15\/","title":{"rendered":"15. Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tibet or China, 17th\u201318th century; gilded bronze; 15 15\/16 x 9 1\/2 in.; Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 85.04.0160.<\/p>\n<p>The<b> Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara<\/b> is a popular <b>tantric<\/b> form of the <b><i>bodhisattva<\/i><\/b>. In this example, three crowned heads serve as a base; wrathful faces form the three upper tiers, with <b>Amitabha<\/b>\u2019s head topping them all. These amplifications of the <i>bodhisattva<\/i>\u2019s power scan the world in all directions and offer multiple means for alleviating suffering.<\/p>\n<p>This work replicates a sacred icon found in Lhasa\u2019s <b>Jokhang<\/b> <b>Temple<\/b>. Legend recounts that King <b>Songtsen Gampo<\/b> had a vision of a Ten-armed and Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, which then miraculously appeared as a clay statue. The icon is said to contain the essence of the king, who is considered an emanation of the <b><i>bodhisattva<\/i><\/b>. Over centuries, many Tibetans have made pilgrimages to venerate this sculpture. CZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tibet or China, 17th\u201318th century; gilded bronze; 15 15\/16 x 9 1\/2 in.; Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 85.04.0160.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69108],"tags":[69169],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pilgrimage","tag-pilgrimage_2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}