The thousand-armed, eleven-faced form of Avalokiteshvara (Sahasrabhuja Ekadashamukha), “the All-Seeing Lord with 1,000 Hands and 11 Faces”. White-bodied, he stands with feet together. The eleven faces rise in tiers — white, green and red repeating — surmounted by a wrathful black face with bared fangs and three eyes, and at the crown a peaceful red face. His first pair of hands are folded at the heart; further hands hold a rosary, a dharma wheel, a lotus, a water-pot, and a bow and arrow, while the remaining hands open in the gesture of granting boons, an eye in each palm. A deerskin crosses his left breast and his lower body is wrapped in fine cloth.
