One text I read, said that Viet multi-armed Avalokiteshvara indicates "Mantrayana", which I believe is another term for tantric buddhism
As far as I know, multi-armed deities are exclusively tantric (but that’s by induction; don’t think I’ve specifically read it
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Sometimes I see the multi armed one in psychedelic (tantric) temples, but sometimes i see one in a plain pure land type setting
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Well a lot of stuff seems to have crossed over in both directions. One would have to go back to the earliest stuff
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I don’t know if the Hindu deities had a lot of arms before they got tantra. Interesting question!
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