The sculpture techniques of the Thousand-Hand Guanyin at Dazu Shengshuiyan also appear in the Dazu Beishan Stone Carvings. The Beishan Stone Carvings are known as the Guanyin Statue Exhibition Hall. Among them, there are many Thousand-Hand Guanyin statues. The earliest work is No. 9 Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara Statue. So, let’s come to Benming Buddha to learn about the history of the Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara carved on Dazu Rock.
History Among the grotto statues in Sichuan and Chongqing, there are quite a few well-preserved "Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara" statues. Luohan Cave in Fushun, Chonglong Mountain in Zizhong, Wofo Valley and Thousand Buddha Village in Anyue, Thousand Buddha Rocks in Jiajiang, and the stone Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara statues in Dazu Shengshui Rock, Baoding Mountain, and Beishan in Chongqing are all examples of this. A relatively outstanding work. Among them, Dazu Baoding Mountain (where Thousand-Hand Guanyin is located) and Beishan are the most famous, and Dazu Baoding Mountain Thousand-Hand Guanyin is the most dazzling.
The Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara Statue at Dazu Shengshui Rock The earliest Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara statue carved in Dazu Rock is the Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara Statue at Dazu Shengshui Rock. The statue has 40 relief hands and more than 100 inscribed hands. This kind of sculptures are well preserved in the art of cave temples in Dunhuang and Bashu areas. After coming to Dazu, they gradually evolved and enriched with the history of Dazu stone carvings, and even reached their peak.
The Dazu Beishan Stone Carving Hand Avalokitesvara statue and the Dazu Shengshuiyan Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara statue technique also appear in the Dazu Beishan Stone Carvings. His work is the Thousand-Armed Guanyin Statue No. 9. In addition, in the Beishan Stone Carving Corridor, there are also some Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara statues from the Five Dynasties and the Early Song Dynasty. For example, in niches No. 218, 235, 243, 273, etc., they are all traditional and simple Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara statues. However, these Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara statues The number of Avalokitesvara's subordinates has decreased, and the scale has also been reduced. For example, the Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara in Niche No. 273 during the Five Dynasties period only had two attendants and Feitian.
The Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara in Cave No. 9 of the Beishan Stone Carvings is dressed in heavenly clothes, with feet on lotuses, and sits in lotus position on a plain square Vajra Seat. The two hands on the shoulders are put together on the top of the crown to support the transformed Buddha. The hands are put together in front of the chest. The hands slightly below are placed under the abdomen, and the two hands below are placed on the knees to perform meditation mudra. The remaining hands (many of them are broken) are holding bottles, bells, wheels, mirrors, Bow, pestle, shield and other magic weapons. Wearing a flower crown on his head, two rays of light shine out, lingering around the top of the niche. There is a round head and a peach-shaped body behind the body, with flame patterns engraved on the outside and multiple arms engraved on the inside to show thousands of hands.
The left and right walls of the niche are engraved with images of Buddhas from the ten directions, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra. Under the seat, a skinny elder is kneeling on the right side in a begging posture, and a hungry ghost is kneeling on the left side holding a bowl in both hands, indicating that Guanyin will give alms to them when he encounters them.
The Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara Statue on Dazu Baoding Mountain. There is a cliff Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara statue with 830 hands in Niche No. 8 of Nanyan, Dafowan, Dazu Baoding Mountain. It has a history of more than 800 years and is known as She is one of a kind!
The "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" on Baoding Mountain was carved in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty. The statue is carved with 830 (the number that was widely rumored before 2009 was 1007) hands and eyes on the 88 square meter cliff face. It integrates sculpture, painting and gilding, and looks like a peacock in full bloom, resplendent and magnificent. Over the past 800 years since it was built, the Thousand-Hand Guanyin statue has been repaired many times due to erosion by various "diseases" such as weathering. The last large-scale gilding was in the 15th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, which is more than 100 years ago.
This ancient Chinese artist created the Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara, which has 830 hands and eyes and is known as the "Wonder of the World." The statues are criss-crossed, overlapped up and down, and connected on opposite sides, and are deeply intertwined. These 830 hands are carved on a stone cliff of 88 square meters. The statue niche is 7.7 meters high and 12.5 meters wide.
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