The Pure Spirit of Enlightenment

Seated on a multi-petalled fully-blooming lotus is the young prince Manjushri with his flaming sword raised aloft above his head and the book of wisdom resting at his left shoulder on a lotus, the stalk of which he holds in his left hand.

The Manjushri icon is rich in symbolism. The sword is there to cut of fetters born not out of ignorance but those which arise through knowledge, signified by the book. This is not a negation of bookish knowledge, but only an assertion of the realization that unless we gain it we cannot know the futility of it in the quest towards ultimate spiritual truths. Manjushri appropriately suggests not the path of renunciation but that of righteous karma.

The color scheme is restrained and controlled with no garish hues made visible. The background is that of an exploding rainbow, representing the bursting forth of 'pure enlightenment.'

According to Min Bahadur Shakya, "Manjushri embodies the wisdom aspect of an enlightened spirit, the ability to recognize the true nature of reality, including humans and phenomena...He holds a flaming sword in his right hand. It symbolizes the severing of the roots of illusion, which are the cause of suffering, ignorance, and envy. In his other hand he holds the book with the title, 'The Perfection of Wisdom,' which provides freedom from all illusion."

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