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Can someone give me an English translation of Lokeshwara? What Deity is this an epithet of?

Thanks.

pemachophel wrote:Can someone give me an English translation of Lokeshwara? What Deity is this an epithet of?

Thanks.

Siva and 1000 armed Chenrezig.

Normally it would be Chenrezig...I've seen it refer to several different forms of Avalokiteshvara....

Anyone seen Amitabha referred to this way?

pemachophel wrote:Anyone seen Amitabha referred to this way?

Amitabha learned from Buddha Lokeśvararāja - who showed him the different Buddhalands, heard his 48 vows to attain Buddhahood, gave him his prediction of future Buddhahood, and started him on his career as Bodhisattva Dharmakara. Amitabha, in turn, is the teacher of Avalokiteśvara, the one who gave him 11 heads to better perceive the cries of the world, and a thousand arms to better help those in the world. Avalokiteśvara will eventually take over Amitabha's Sukhavati Pure Land. In certain iconography, Avalokiteśvara wears an image of Amitabha on his crown, which many take to signify Avalokiteśvara embodying the manifestation of Amitabha's compassionate activity here in the Saha world.

http://www.sutrasmantras.info/sutra07.html

pemachophel wrote:Can someone give me an English translation of Lokeshwara? What Deity is this an epithet of?

Thanks.

Literally its 'Lord Of The World '...

Ishvara is 'Lord' and Loka is 'world.'

Buddhists apply it to Chenrezig, Shaivites to Siva, and Vaisnavs to Ram or Krisna.

Thanks for the replies.

I am sure you are hoping Malcolm will respond to this after the retreat with CNN but for now, what text is it in? I have some where it means Siva and some Chenrezig.

Lokeshwara translates as the '' Lord of the worlds ''
Avalokiteshvara as '' The Lord who hears the cries of the world ''

Clarence,

It begins a prayer ("Namo Lokeswaraye") by Mipham (?) to Amitabha, Manjushri, and Saraswati. No mention of Avalokiteshewara. That's exactly why I asked in the first place. I assumed this was an epithet of Avalokiteshwara, but here it seems out of place.

(I may be misattributing authorship of this prayer. I didn't write down the author when I copied it off the Internet. It might have been Raga Asaye.)