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Description edit
By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of the Common Era. While he was closely... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Wang: Add a description of this character.
- Liu
- Chang Tai
- Kumarajiva
- Kuanyin
- Dudbridge
- Kiangsu
- Avalokitegvara
- Makita
- Bodhidharma
- Huang
- Amitabha
- Hsu
- Chekiang
- Sakyamuni
- C.e.
- Honan
- Sui
- Overmyer
- Shih
- Wu
- Sudhana
- Tara
- Li An
- Yama
- Szechwan
- Luk
- Kannon
- Yoshioka
- Kobayashi
- Hsieh
- Howard
- Holt
- Chiao
- Stein
- Chu
- Miaoshan
- Mahasthamaprapta
- Yang
- Potalaka
- Bodhiruci
- Goto
Setting & Locations edit
- China
- Hangchow
- India
- South Sea
- Taoism
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Former Heaven
- Bodhisattva
- Taiwan
- Maitreya
- Japan
- Ningpo
- Pure Land
- Tantric
- Tripitaka
- Tibet
- Beijing
- Peking
- Fukien
- Taipei
- Sinhala
- Buddha
- Vinaya
- Shanghai
- Khotan
- Hong Kong
- Nanking
- Huntington
- Chinese Buddhism
- Jambudvipa
- Ming
- Anhui
- Sutra
- West Lake
- Yellow Heaven
- Amoghavajra
- Korea
- Kiriya
- Huai River
- Amsterdam
- Yunnan
- Vietnam
- Rijksmuseum
First Sentence edit
Kuan-yin (Perceiver of Sounds), or Kuan-shih-yin (Perceiver of the World's Sounds) is the Chinese name for Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, who has been worshiped throughout the Buddhist world.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Chu?n-fang Yu? (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 294.34211
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