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Guanyin accepted her offer with just one request: that Longnü be the new owner of the Pearl of Light.
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It is generally accepted among East Asian adherents that Guanyin originated as the Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara ( अवल ो क ि त े श ् वर ).
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Another story from the Precious Scroll of Fragrant Mountain describes an incarnation of Guanyin as the daughter of a cruel king who wanted her to marry a wealthy but uncaring man.
In one version of this legend, when Guanyin was executed, a supernatural tiger took her to one of the more hell-like realms of the dead.
However, instead of being punished like the other spirits of the dead, Guanyin played music, and flowers blossomed around her.
The story concludes with Miaoshan being transformed into the Thousand Armed Guanyin, and the king, queen and her two sisters building a temple on the mountain for her.
After her return to Earth, Guanyin was said to have stayed for a few years on the island of Mount Putuo where she practised meditation and helped the sailors and fishermen who got stranded.
After some decades Guanyin returned to Fragrant Mountain to continue her meditation.
Guanyin took off and dashed to the edge of a cliff, the three illusions still chasing her.
The crowd, now angry at someone so daring, was about to pry him away from the fish when Guanyin projected her voice from far away, saying " A life should definitely belong to one who tries to save it, not one who tries to take it.
Paintings of Guanyin today sometimes portray her holding a fish basket, which represents the aforementioned tale.
Longnü, overwhelmed by the presence of Guanyin, asked to be her disciple so that she might study the dharma.
Guanyin bit her finger and a drop of blood fell into the water, but she vanished.
Due to her symbolising compassion, in East Asia Guanyin is associated with vegetarianism.
The Chinese translation of many Buddhist sutras has in fact replaced the Chinese transliteration of Avalokitesvara with Guanshiyin ( 觀世音 ) Some Daoist scriptures give her the title of Guanyin Dashi, and sometimes informally as Guanyin Fozu.
In her bodhisattva vows, Guanyin promises to answer the cries and pleas of all sentient beings and to liberate them from their own karmic woes.
Guanyin is revered in the general Chinese population due to her unconditional love, compassion and mercy.
Some coastal and river areas of China regard her as the protector of fishermen, sailors, and generally people who are out at sea, thus many also come to believe that Mazu, the Daoist goddess of the sea, is a manifestation of Guanyin.
In traditional pictures of the Goddess of Mercy Guanyin, she is often shown seated on a rock with a willow branch in a vase of water at her side.
A large golden statue of Guanyin stands on at northern entrance to the Great Hall, with Shan Cai at her side and sculptures representing the 53 teachers of his life above.
Later, Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of compassion, and her disciple Prince Moksa came searching for powerful bodyguards in preparation of Xuanzang's journey west.
Guanyin and with
Guanyin is the bodhisattva associated with compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists, usually as a female.
The Buddhist tradition also displays Guanyin, or other buddhas and bodhisattvas, flanked with the above mentioned warriors, but as bodhisattvas who protect the temple and the faith itself.
The buddha and bodhisattva that are portrayed together with Guanyin usually follow whichever school of Buddhism they represent.
Guanyin, after having a discussion with Shancai, decided to test the boy's resolve to fully study the Buddhist teachings.
As a reward for Guanyin saving his son, the Dragon King sent his granddaughter, a girl called Longnü (" dragon girl "), to present Guanyin with the Pearl of Light.
In popular iconography, the parrot is coloured white and usually seen hovering to the right side of Guanyin with either a pearl or a prayer bead clasped in its beak.
However, Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, helped a merchant hit Guanyin in the hair with silver powder, which floated away in the water.
In Chinese Buddhism, Guanyin is synonymous with the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara.
In Chinese culture, the popular belief and worship of Guanyin as a goddess by the populace is generally not viewed to be in conflict with the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara's nature.
A meditative or contemplative state of being at peace with oneself and others is seen as Guanyin.
The cultivation of root vegetables rather than typical seedling plants was notably prominent, with archaeological evidence suggesting as early as fourth millennium BC, from the Dapenkeng site, in Guanyin Mountain, New Taipei City.
Dabei Hall enshrines a thousand-armed wooden image of Guanyin and Huayan Hall is a repository with a revolving sutra cabinet.
** Guanyin ( also Kuanyin ): bodhisattva associated with compassion
The bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara ( Guanyin ), on instruction from the Buddha, gives this task to the monk and his three protectors in the form of disciples — namely Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing — together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang's steed, a white horse.
He fought with Wukong, but ended the fight when he learned that Wukong was a disciple of Xuanzang, and that he had also been recruited by Guanyin to join their pilgrimage and make atonements for his past sins.
In order to justify Mazu's presence in Buddhist temples, legends were circulated claiming that Mazu's parents prayed to Guan Yin for a son, but Guanyin answered their prayers with the birth of yet another daughter.
* Kwun Yum or Guanyin, the bodhisattva associated with compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists
The 108-metre-high Guanyin Statue of Hainan was enshrined on 24 April 2005 with the participation of 108 eminent monks from various Buddhist groups in Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China, and tens of thousands of pilgrims.
Guanyin and one
Some Buddhists believe that when one of their adherents departs from this world, they are placed by Guanyin in the heart of a lotus, and then sent to the western pure land of Sukhāvatī.
In Chinese Buddhist iconography, Guanyin is often depicted as meditating or sitting alongside one of the Buddhas and usually accompanied by another bodhisattva.
Guanyin is one of the most popular Bodhisattva to which people pray.
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