梵名をサハスラブジャ (Sahasrabhuja)といいます。
この観音は、一切衆生を漏れなく救うという誓 願により、千手の姿となったといわれています。 また千の眼はそれぞれの掌にあるところから、千 手千眼観音とも呼ばれます。
千という数字は、広大無辺をあらわします。一 切衆生を救済するための手や眼のとどく範囲が広 大であるということを象徴した、大慈大悲そのも のの観音さまです。
このように、千手観音は、観音がもつ慈悲の力 をいちばん強調した姿といえましう。
千手観音(せんじゅかんのん)とは?
別名 千手千眼観自在菩薩(せんじゅせんげんかんじざいぼさつ)とも言い、生きとし生けるものすべてを漏らさず救う、大いなる慈悲を表現する菩薩です。千の手と手のひらの千の眼によって悩み苦しむ衆生を見つけては手を差し伸べる広大無限な功徳と慈悲から「大悲観音」、または観音の王を意味する「蓮華王」とも称されます。阿修羅や金剛力士などが属する二十八部衆を配下とします。
観音の中でも功徳が大きく、観音の中の王という意味で「蓮華王」と呼ばれることもあります。阿修羅や金剛力士などの二十八部衆を配下にしています。また六観音の一つに数えられ餓鬼道に迷う人々を救うといわれています。
ご利益
災難除け、延命、病気治癒などあらゆる現世利益を網羅し、特に夫婦円満、恋愛成就に功徳があるとされています。子年の守り本尊でもあり、子年生まれの人の開運、厄除け、祈願成就を助けるとされます。
千手観音(せんじゅかんのん)の像容
十一面四十二臂(ひ)で表されることが多く、四十二本の手のうち四十本それぞれが二十五の世界を救うことを示します。手には宝剣、髑髏杖、水瓶など実に様ざまな持物(じもつ)を持ち、多種多様な徳を表しています。
千手観音(せんじゅかんのん)の真言
オン・バザラ・タラマ・キリク
Sanskrit name is Sahasrabhuja.
It is said that this Kannon took on the form of a thousand hands as a result of his vow to save all living beings. It is also called Thousand Armed Kannon because it has a thousand eyes on each palm.
The number 1000 represents vastness. Kannon of Great Compassion and Compassion, symbolizing the vastness of the reach of the hands and eyes to save all living beings.
In this way, it can be said that the Thousand-Armed Kannon is the figure that most emphasizes the compassionate power of Kannon.
What is Senju Kannon?
Also known as Senju Sengen Kanjizai Bosatsu, it is a bodhisattva that expresses great mercy and saves all living things. It is also called ‘Daibi Kannon’ or ‘Lenge King’, which means the king of Kannon, because of its vast and infinite merit and mercy, which finds and reaches out to suffering sentient beings with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes in the palm of the hand. He is under the control of the twenty-eight divisions, to which Ashura and Kongo Rikishi belong.
Among Kannon, he has great merit, and is sometimes called “Rengeo” in the sense that he is the king of Kannon. He has twenty-eight subordinates such as Ashura and Kongo Rikishi under his command. He is also counted as one of the Six Kannons, and is said to save people who are lost in Gaki-do.
benefit
It covers all worldly benefits such as warding off disasters, prolonging life, and curing illnesses, and is said to be especially beneficial for marital harmony and romantic success. He is also the guardian deity of the year of the rat, and is said to help people born in the year of the rat bring good luck, ward off evil, and fulfill their prayers.
Statue of Senju Kannon
It is often represented by eleven faces and forty-two arms, indicating that each of the forty of the forty-two hands will save the twenty-five worlds. In his hands, he holds a wide variety of items such as a treasured sword, a skull cane, and a water bottle, representing a wide variety of virtues.
Mantra of Senju Kannon
On Bazara Talama Kilik