ID: 901002279 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002279	Record Type: Character/Person

	Nilakantha (Buddhist deity)

Note: Form of Lokesvara. Yellow in color, carrying a bowl of jewels, with two serpent companions.

Names:

	Nilakantha (Buddhist deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
		........<Buddhist characters> (P)
		............Nilakantha (Buddhist deity) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Buddhist
	.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Nilakantha (Buddhist deity)
	................Bhattacharyya, Indian Buddhist Iconography (1924)