Avalokitesvara

Type of artwork	Sculpture
Village	Musée Guimet
Country	Cambodia
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 48.864722 Long : 2.293611

History of production	Avalogitesavara sculpture was built in the reign of king Chayavaraman VII around 18 Century BE.
Art	Avalokitesavara makes his hair into the crown, the symbol of a priest. He has Amithapa on the crown. The face is of Bayon style, having the eyes closed and gentle smile. The body is carved with Buddhas all over. The cloth is short. It is assumed that real cloths and ornaments were presented.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Bayon
Age	18 Century BE.
Religion	Buddhism
Sect	Mahayana
Religion and belief	Avalogitesavara is the current Bhothisavara. He is worshiped as the Bhothisavara of mercy and sometimes called by other name such as Pattamapanee. The glowing attitude is ver common in Bayon art and is assumed to be originated from Karantawayuhasut scripture. It says that Avalokitesavara is so powerful that one of his pore equals one universe. Each universe has one Lord Buddha.

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-02-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali