#manjusri

i mean what else can you do when a bodhisattva asks you to forgive their lion steed

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Written in Vartu script, the six characters engraved on the bottom of this seal read "aa-ra-pa-tza-na-dhi," which is a mantra of Manjusri, the bodhisattva of wisdom. First developed in India, Vartu script was adapted from cursive Sanskrit by Tibetan monks for ritual use from the eleventh century onward.

This painting depicts the bodhisattva Manjusri (Ch: Wenshu), his head and upper chest haloed, in his hands a willow branch and a cup, the bejeweled bodhisattva seated on a recumbent blue Buddhist lion at a rocky outcropping over waves from which red and pink lotuses grow, nearby a wutong tree with swirling clouds weaving through the sheltering leaves overhead. A companion painting to this one depicts the bodhisattva Samantabhadra (Ch: Puxian) similarly seated in landscape on a recumbent white elephant near a pine tree over waves, in his right hand a long-stemmed lotus supporting a scripture book likely of the Lotus Sutra. Manjusri represents wisdom and knowledge, while Samantabhadra represents universal virtue. 

Limestone votive stele depicting the Buddha surrounded by monks, priests, and bodhisattvas (below), a register of musicians, and the layman Vimalakirti debating the bodhisattva Manjusri (above)
551 CE, Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 CE)
China, Henan Province Penn Museum, C404

Mañjuśrī from the Yulin Caves of Gansu, China,  Western Xia dynasty