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to the Kannon-bu.
Todai-ji temple.
There is an example of this figure in the
The figure has six hands and the principal
two hands are in namask膩ra mudr膩. There is a lasso or P膩sa
in his left hand. By this lasso or Pasa Amoghapa艣a holds
the devotees (gods and men) and take them to the Bodhi shore
or to the shore of salvation. He is the bestower of Bodhi
to his devotees. The lasso or P膩艣a is the main characteris-
tic attribute of F眉k眉-Kensaku Kannon or Bodhisattva
Amoghapa膰a. But some of the Kensaku Kannon figure can be
seen without the lasso.
In Indian Buddhism Amoghap膩sa is placed among the
108 forms of Avalokitesvara who is known as Amoghap膩艣a
Loke艣vara. In the Sadhana he is described as four-faced and
eight-armed and stands on a lotus. He carries in his four
right hands a Vajra, a sword, an arrow and a bow, while the
left four carry the ghant膩, the tridant, noose and arrow.
We may thus find a striking similarity between the iconogra-
phic concept of Japanese F眉k眉 Kensaku Kannon and Indian
Amoghap膩艣a Loke艣vara.
In Kyoto, there is one famous tample of thousand Kannon
called Sanjusangendo. In this temple there are 1001 figures
of eleven-headed thousand-armed Kannon or J眉ichimen Senju
1. "He is four-faced and eight-armed and stands on a lotus.
He carries in his four right hands the Vajra, the sword,
the goad, and bow, while the four left carry the ghant膩,
the tridandi, the noose and the arrow" - see IBI, p. 218.