White Manjushri – The Glorious Melodious Speech
White Manjushri Thangka Painting: White Manjushri (Sanskrit: Sita Manjushri, Tibetan: Jamyang Karpo, Jam Dbyangs Dkar Po and English: The White One of Glorious Melodious Speech) is another form of the wisdom deity Manjushri. The White Manjushri is the Bodhisattva of wisdom as meditational deity, form the Sidhaikavira Mahatantraraja. Although there are a number for different forms of Manjushri that have a white appearance generally when referring to a White Manjushri it refers to either the popular Siddhaikavira or the Arapachana.
Gesture and Attributes
White Manjushri is depicted white in color like the autumn moon with one face and two arms. In this form, he is generally represented with his legs crossed in Vajra posture; his right hand in the mudra of supreme generosity holding the stem of a lotus on which rests a sword; and his left hand raised holding a blue lotus on which rests a book like shown in this White Manjushri Thangka Painting. There are other traditions where White Manjushri has the simple attribute of a book resting on an Utpala flower (as in the representation on the right), or with multiple faces and arms, or riding a lion.
