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Longnü, overwhelmed by the presence of Guanyin, asked to be her disciple so that she might study the dharma.
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Longnü and Guanyin
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.
Guanyin accepted her offer with just one request: that Longnü be the new owner of the Pearl of Light.
In popular iconography, Longnü and Shancai are often seen alongside Guanyin as two children.
Longnü and .
The girl is called Longnü and the boy Shancai.
Longnü is seen either holding a bowl or an ingot, which represents the Pearl of Light, whereas Shancai is seen with palms joined and knees slightly bent to show that he was once crippled.
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It stumbled on infantry where no infantry should have been and McPherson's aggressive impulse faded out, overwhelmed by fears of the unknown.
For example, one study on volunteerism found that feeling overwhelmed by others ' demands had an even stronger negative effect on mental health than helping had a positive one ( although positive effects were still significant ).
Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than conventional acoustic guitars, which were overwhelmed by horns and percussion instruments in dance orchestras.
As the political situation threatened and eventually overwhelmed Austria, which was repeatedly crushed by French political forces, Salieri's first and most important biographer Mosel described the emotional effect that this political, social, and cultural upheaval had on the composer.
The French battalions were overwhelmed by Colonel Blood's close-range artillery and platoon fire.
A technique called bootstrapping the simulation model is used, which bootstraps initial data points using a pseudorandom number generator to schedule an initial set of pending events, which schedule additional events, and with time, the distribution of event times approaches its steady state — the bootstrapping behavior is overwhelmed by steady-state behavior.
He confronts Alia and offers to help her overcome her possession but she is overwhelmed by her ancestral personae and elects to commit suicide.
Chiang is now increasingly perceived as a man simply overwhelmed by the events in China, having to fight simultaneously Communists, Japanese and provincial warlords while having to reconstruct and unify the country.
It ends with the player character entering the teleporter leading to Deimos, ending with him getting overwhelmed by monsters, if not killed.
The supplies of the 275 settlers were overwhelmed by 250 survivors of the wreck of the British East Indian Ship ATLAS in May, and the colony failed in October.
" Leveritt speculated that the small local police force was overwhelmed by the crime, which was unlike any they had ever investigated.
Once again, the anti-tank defences were overwhelmed and about 380 New Zealanders were taken prisoner including Captain Charles Upham who gained a second Victoria Cross for his actions including destroying a German tank and several guns and vehicles with grenades despite being shot through the elbow by a machine gun bullet and having his arm broken.
Raising a toast to the crew, he " felt overwhelmed by shame … I was in a no exit situation.
The Super X II, a remote controlled and stronger version of the first Super X, is deployed, and though it first seems effective at combating Godzilla, it is eventually overwhelmed by Godzilla's nuclear breath, and is forced to retreat.
Furthermore, critics complained that he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic disasters — depressions and strikes — in his second term.
The Saxons and Avars were eventually overwhelmed, the people were forcibly converted to Christianity, and the lands were annexed by the Carolingian Empire.
The smaller states failed to form coalitions with each other, and were eventually overwhelmed by Prussia.
She is overwhelmed by having her unfulfilled love for him so abruptly terminated and drifts into the oblivion of insanity.
Napoleon was largely defeated in the Battle of the Nations outside Leipzig in October 1813, and was overwhelmed by much larger armies during the Six Days Campaign ( February 1814 ), although, the Six Days Campaign is often considered a tactical masterpiece because the allies suffered much higher casualties.
Between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD, the Bosporan Kingdom, a Hellenistic polity which succeeded the Greek colonies, was also overwhelmed by successive waves of nomadic invasions, led by warlike tribes which would often move on to Europe, as was the case with the Huns and Turkish Avars.
However, this cost may be overwhelmed by the short term benefit of higher infectiousness if transmission is linked to virulence, as it is for instance in the case of cholera ( the explosive diarrhea aids the bacterium in finding new hosts ) or many respiratory infections ( sneezing and coughing create infectious aerosols ).
First in Arabic, but later also in Persian, Turkish and Urdu, love poetry by men about boys more than competed with that about women, it overwhelmed it.
During the " The Dark Phoenix Saga ", Phoenix becomes overwhelmed and corrupted by her first taste of evil and transforms into a force of total destruction, called " Dark Phoenix ", consuming a star, inadvertently killing the inhabitants of the star's solar system, and jeopardizing the entire universe.
overwhelmed and presence
Within days, Freetown was overwhelmed by the presence of the RUF combatants who came to the city in their thousands.
German General Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein's raiding force retaliated to this growing British presence, by attacking the widely dispersed 5th Mounted Brigade on 23 April, Easter Sunday and also St George's Day, when Yeomanry were surprised and overwhelmed at Katia and Oghratina east of Romani.
San Francisco Mayor James Van Ness, with the municipal police and sheriff departments overwhelmed by the Vigilantes continued armed presence in the city's streets, pleaded to the Governor for military assistance.
References to voluntarily falling as the result of feeling overwhelmed by a divine presence are found in Numbers 22: 31, Judges 13: 20, Ezekiel 1: 28, Ezekiel 3: 23, Ezekiel 43: 3, Ezekiel 44: 4, Daniel 8: 17 and Matthew 17: 6.
Instances of involuntarily falling before the Lord as the result of feeling overwhelmed by a divine presence are found in 1 Kings 8: 10-11, Daniel 8: 27, Daniel 10: 8-11 ( possibly implied ), Acts 9: 3-4 ( also Acts 26: 14 ) and Revelation 1: 17.
If even a tiny fraction of these additional data, including information on skeletal structure, soft-tissue morphology, integument, behaviour, genetics, etc., were included in the analysis, the faint phylogenetic signal produced by the presence of wings in birds and bats would be overwhelmed by the preponderance of data supporting the ( human, bat )( bird, crocodile ) tree.
Typically those Pentecostals who run the church aisles do not do so unless they feel that they are overwhelmed by the presence of the Holy Spirit at a point in the service when the congregation in general is sensing His moving.
They were all overwhelmed by her genuine talents and her attractive presence.
overwhelmed and asked
Bulgaria was overwhelmed by the Greek and Serbian armies, while in the north the Romanian army was marching towards Sofia ; the Bulgarians asked for truce.
Duryodhana, overwhelmed by sorrow at the loss of his brothers, went to Bhishma at the end of the fourth day of the battle, and asked his commander how could the Pandavas, facing a superior force against them, still prevail and win.
overwhelmed and be
This way, any ABM defense system could be overwhelmed with the sheer numbers of warheads.
In " A Witch Shall be Born ", Conan fights armed men until he is overwhelmed, captured, and crucified, and goes a night and a day without water, but still possesses the strength to pull the nails from his feet, then to hoist himself into a horse's saddle and ride ten miles.
In that instant, the Phoenix Force is overwhelmed and believes itself to be Jean Grey and places Jean's dying body in a healing cocoon.
The war began in 166, when the Marcomanni overwhelmed the defences between Vindobona and Carnuntum, penetrated along the border between the provinces of Pannonia and Noricum, laid waste to Flavia Solva, and could be stopped only shortly before reaching Aquileia on the Adriatic sea.
Any mention of him caused her to be overwhelmed by grief ; every March she cried at church and in bed.
During the early stages of an incident, first responders may be overwhelmed by the scope of patients and injuries.
Most routers can be easily overwhelmed under DoS attack.
In larger countries, the senate often serves a balancing effect by giving a larger share of power to regions or groups which would otherwise be overwhelmed under strictly popular apportionment.
Such bottom-up approaches should, broadly speaking, be able to produce devices in parallel and much cheaper than top-down methods, but could potentially be overwhelmed as the size and complexity of the desired assembly increases.
With the element of surprise, a U-boat could be quickly overwhelmed.
I'm in those lists – be careful, because so too are all the highest echelons ( I understood ' of the state ') ... Watch out, the Force will be overwhelmed by this.
In addition, the U. S. realized that in the event of war, parts of West Germany would be overwhelmed early on, and nuclear weapons stationed there could fall into the hands of the Soviets.
Similarly, the specifications require that a maximum irradiance not be exceeded so that a receiver is not overwhelmed with brightness when a device comes close.
The first tree was their son, who would be king over all Ireland, and the sea that overwhelmed it was a fish-bone that he would die choking on.
A user may be overwhelmed with the disconnection many psychedelics cause, and fear that they are going insane or will never return to reality.
Circumpolar stars are therefore visible from said location towards nearest pole for the entire night on every night of the year ( and would be continuously visible throughout the day too, were they not overwhelmed by the Sun's glare ).
Some shooting goes on in the house, but eventually the Dutchman can be overwhelmed.
They were afraid that it would be overwhelmed by the English.
" A person may be hyper-sensitive and overwhelmed ; a great many thoughts may be revolving within their mind, and they may either become triggered or could make a decision to stop the overwhelming feelings.
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