A Wikipedia article on the bodhisattva Manjushri, covering his role as the embodiment of transcendent wisdom in Mahayana Buddhism. The article states that although Manjushri had helped countless beings across innumerable past eons, he himself remains eternally young, giving rise to the standard epithets "Manjushri, Still a Youth" and "Prince Manjushri" and the convention of depicting him as a youthful figure. It gives his usual attributes as a flaming sword held in the right hand, symbolizing wisdom cutting through ignorance, and a Prajnaparamita sutra resting on a lotus held in the left, and separately recounts the Kathmandu Valley legend in which Manjushri cut a gorge at Chobar with his flaming sword to drain the valley's ancient lake and make it habitable, linking him to the Kathmandu Valley's Newar Buddhist culture. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the statuette's youthful iconographic type as Manjushri's standard form and to establish his Kathmandu Valley association, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue record for this exact statuette. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjushri
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Manjushri directly: "A Wikipedia article on the bodhisattva Manjushri, covering his role as the embodiment of transcendent wisdom in Mahayana Buddhism."
Source Manjushri (Wikipedia)
This source names Manjushri directly: "A Wikipedia article on the bodhisattva Manjushri, covering his role as the embodiment of transcendent wisdom in Mahayana Buddhism."
Source Manjushri (Wikipedia)
This source names Newar directly: "linking him to the Kathmandu Valley's Newar Buddhist culture."
Source Manjushri (Wikipedia)
This source names The Kathmandu Valley directly: "in the left, and separately recounts the Kathmandu Valley legend in which Manjushri cut a gorge at Chobar with his flaming sword to drain the valley's ancient lake and make it habitable, linking him..."
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 4 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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