BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Bangkok X-LIC-LOCATION:Asia/Bangkok BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0700 TZOFFSETTO:+0700 TZNAME:ICT DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2988839:Event:511220 DTSTAMP:20260415T054743Z SUMMARY:AVALOKITEÅšVARA Exhibition: Buddhist Paintings from Nepal Exhi bition DESCRIPTION:\nAVALOKITEÅšVARA: Buddhist Paintings from Nepal, Selectio ns by Robert Beer\n11 March - 25 April 2010\n\nAvalokiteÅ›vara, the †˜Beholding Lord’, is the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron de ity 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 LokeÅ›vara, the ‘Lord of the World’, or as Mahakarunika, the ‘Great Compass ionate One’, who has a hundred-and-eight different manifestations. A nd 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.\n\nAccordin g to a popular legend AvalokiteÅ›vara once vowed that he would first f ree all beings from suffering before attaining liberation himself, so he set about this task with great effort. But when he saw how few he h ad so far saved compared to how many still remained, his sudden despai r caused his head and body to explode into many pieces. Seeing his pli ght, Amitabha Buddha then came swiftly to his aid, and from all the sh attered fragments reconstructed his body into a far more powerful form , with eleven heads and a thousand arms, so that he was able to gaze c ompassionately over all beings in the ten directions and reach out to them with his many arms. Another legend tells how two lakes were forme d from AvalokiteÅ›vara’s tears of despair, and from these lakes aros e the lotus-borne forms of Green and White Tara.\n\nAvalokiteÅ›vara is the principal Bodhisattva or ‘Spiritual Son’ of red Amitabha Budd ha, who presides over the western direction as the ‘Lord of the Padm a 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 o f a lotus in his left hand. Lokeshvara is usually white or sometimes r ed in colour, with two, four, eight or a thousand arms, and his charac teristic emblem is an antelope-skin that is draped over his left shoul der.\n\nAlthough this Bodhisattva of Compassion is widely adored and v enerated throughout the Buddhist world, many of his unique Newar aspec ts are still unknown outside the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. So we have chosen to present some of these rare aspects of Lokeshvara in this ex hibition, along with those that are more widely known within the Indo- Tibetan or Mahayana Buddhist traditions.\n\nRobert Beer is internation ally-renowned author of the Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs (Serindia Publications) and a specialist of Buddhist paintings from N epal. His selections for this exhibition include pieces from living ma ster painters in Nepal.\n\nOpening reception of the exhibition, from 5 :30pm-9:00pm. RSVP serindiagallery@gmail.com, tel: 02 238 6410, or on Facebook event page\n\n\nFor more information visit http://www.portfol ios.net/events/avalokitesvara-exhibition DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20100311T000000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20100425T235900 CATEGORIES:art, painting, exhibition LOCATION:Serindia Gallery WEBSITE:http://www.serindiagallery.com URL:http://www.serindiagallery.com CONTACT:02 238 6410 ORGANIZER: ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/3022573363?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ace Than aboon":http://www.portfolios.net/profile/aceimage ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="PORTFOLI OS*NET":http://www.portfolios.net/profile/admin END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR