Very nicely made orange glass necklace with a pendant depicting the image of Manjushri.
Manjushri is one of the three 'Great Bodhisattva's'; the three bodhisattva's that are the nearest companions of Gautama Buddha and embody the three main focuses of the Buddhist practice; principles and qualities that we need to activate and cultivate in our life when walking the path to enlightenment. In this trinity, Vajrapani respresents the Power of Buddha, Avalokiteshvara the Compassion and Manjushri the Wisdom.
Being not only the Buddha's nearest companions, but also the greatest protectors ('dharmapala') of his teachings, they all have both peaceful and wrathful manifestations.
According to the sutra's Manjushri had received his own completely enlightened buddhahood already eons before Gautama Buddha, but came back to this world as a bodhisattva and disciple to the Buddha in order to assist him in his work of spreading the teachings of the dharma.
This pendant shows Manjushri in one of his most common manifestations; as an (eternal) youth, holding the flaming sword of wisdom which cuts through ignorance and delusions in his right hand, and a lotus flower inscribed with the Great Wisdom sutra at his left side.
The nicely detailed depiction of Manjushri is made on a pendant of semi-transparent orange glass. It hangs on a necklace made with orange glass beads, strung alternately with tiny black beads on nylon macrame cord.
Sizes; total length of the necklace is approximately 82 centimeters (measured without the pendant), total weight is 47 grams. The pendant is approximately 50 millimeters high and 40 millimeters wide and the orange glass beads have a diameter of 5 millimeters.
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