Avalokita

The helpers and saviours of mankind such as Avalokita and Târâ are often depicted in the shape of raging fiends, as hideous and revolting as a fanciful brush and distorted brain can paint them.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

Mr Wells knows that he is indebted to oriental thought and thinks that European religion in the future may be so too, but I do not know if he realizes how nearly his God coincides with the Mahayanist conception of a Bodhisattva such as Avalokita or Mañjuśri.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

The great Bodhisattvas, such as Avalokita and Mañjuśrî, are splendid angels of mercy and knowledge who are theoretically distinguished from Buddhas because they have indefinitely postponed their entry into nirvana in order to alleviate the sufferings of the world.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

Of most teachers we are told that they saw some deity, such as Avalokita or Târâ.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

_ Lotus, chap. I.] [Footnote 17: De la Vallée Poussin's article "Avalokita" in _E. R.E.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

Kamandaki addresses her favourite disciple Avalokita thus: --

Tales from the Hindu Dramatists R. N. Dutta

The twenty-fourth chapter which contains the praises of Avalokita is often printed separately.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

In this way he imagines that he sees the emblems of the Bodhisattva spring up round him one by one and finally he himself assumes the shape of Avalokita and becomes one with him.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

The circumstances in which Avalokita became a goddess are obscure.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

Nâgârjuna's allusions to Avalokita and Amitâyus with apparent approval; he tells us how one of his teachers worshipped Amitâyus and strove to prepare himself for Sukhâvatî and how the Lotus was the favourite scripture of another.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896