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  Samantaphatra

 

Thailand

Phra Samantaphatra Photisat, the bodhisattva of truth in Mahayana Buddhism, who in Chinese is known as Puxian and in Sanskrit as Samantabhadra. He is usually portrayed riding an elephant (fig.), with six, i.e. three pairs of tusks (fig.).

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