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| | Avalokitesvara's Appeal |
 | | Avalokitesvara is generally regarded as the god who, like Buddha surveys the distress of all beings. | | | In the Harsha Charita of Bana the world `Avalokitesvara' occurs as an adjuctive to the Buddhist monk Divakaramitra. | | | The Mahayanists worship Avalokitesvara as a merciful and with fulfilling god. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/AvalokitesvaraAppeal.htm
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| | Quan Yin |
| | Avalokitesvara came to be known by most Tibetans as Buddha's earthly representation and as chief guardian of the dharma (doctrine) until the advent of Maitreya Buddha. | | | Avalokitesvara and Quan Yin are embodiments of compassion. | | | In Tibetan Buddhism Quan Yin is seen in her male form as Avalokitesvara. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/quanyin.html
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| | avalokitesvara |
| | Avalokitesvara was first mentioned in the Lotus Sutra in the first century CE as embodiment of the Buddha's compassion. | | | Avalokitesvara became involved in the process of leading Tibetans from the realm of suffering to the Pure Land (Reynolds, 188-9). | | | Also known as Padmapani (Lotus in Hand), Avalokitesvara's blossom is a symbol of his manifestation of the compassion of the Buddhas of all time. |
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http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/buddhistart/students/kleck
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| | Avalokitesvara -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Avalokitesvara is the earthly manifestation of the self-born, eternal Buddha, Amitabha, whose figure is represented in his headdress, and he guards the world in the interval between the departure of the historical Buddha, Gautama, and the appearance of the future Buddha, Maitreya. | | | In Mahayana Buddhism, increased devotion to the Buddha became elaborated as a belief in many celestial beings, notably Amitabha and Avalokitesvara (Kwannon), who were, however, in essence all unified in the... | | | The virtues and miracles of Avalokitesvara are accounted in many Buddhist sutras (scriptures). |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9011398?tocId=9011398
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| | Buddhist Studies: Avalokitesvara |
| | In India Avalokitesvara was usually portrayed as a handsome young prince with the Buddha nestled in his crown, or sometimes as an ascetic, iconographically very similar to the Hindu god Siva. | | | From Mongolia to Sri Lanka, from Afghanistan to Indonesia, the worship of Avalokitesvara has long been popular, even fervent, and has inspired some of the most beautiful examples of Buddhist art. | | | This desire and ability to help all without distinction is due to Avalokitesvara's great compassion, indeed he is seen as the very embodiment of the Buddha's compassion. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/dharmadata/fdd27.htm
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| | In Buddhism, it is believed that all Bodhisattvas are asexual. | | | After listening to Gautama Buddha's discourse, he decided to renounce the material world to become a disciple of the Buddha. | | | The following are the 33 manifestations of Avalokitesvara. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/Om35.htm
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| | Chapter 21 - Tirupati Balaji was a Buddhist Shrine - By Dr. K. Jamanadas |
| | XXIV), According to Chinese pilgrims, the worship of Avalokitesvara was prevalent in India form the fourth to seventh century. | | | Earlier local artists, in contrast to Gandhara ones, made no distinction between the terms Buddha and Bodhisattva, and the inscribed standing and seated images of Mathura, representing Gautama dressed as monk, are sometimes described in their pedestal inscriptions either as Bodhisattva or as Buddha. | | | Karandakavyuha of about the fourth century A.D...is a text devoted to glorification of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara who with Tara formed the chief deities of worship in the early tantra literature. |
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http://www.ambedkar.org/Tirupati/Chap21.htm
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| | Handbook:Standing Avalokitesvara |
| | Avalokitesvara is also known as the Lord of Compassion, and is commonly represented in the islands of Southeast Asia, especially during the Srivijaya period (eighth to ninth centuries), as a prince adorned with lavish jewelry and crowned with an elaborate headdress. | | | The Bodhisattva is essentially a 'Buddha' or sentient being who has chosen to forego the final step to Buddhahood or nirvana in order to remain on earth to teach the principles of Buddhism. | | | The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is seen here standing with his arms raised in the vitarksa mudra, or argument gesture. |
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http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/handbook/hb92.html
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| | The Creation of Goddess of Mercy from Avalokitesvara - Bagyalakshmi |
| | Avalokitesvara in the desire to help humankind assumed different forms and it is no surprise that Avalokitesvara / Guanyin symbolizing divine womanhood was considered to be most appropriate. | | | In the Mani Kambum it is related that Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara emerged as a ray of white light from the right eye of Amitabha after the latter had given himself up to earnest meditation and hence regarded as his spiritual son. | | | If Buddhism has been the greatest contribution of India to world religions, the transformation of Indian Avalokitesvara to Guanyin-the Goddess of Mercy -is the creation and contribution of China to the Buddhist world. |
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http://ignca.nic.in/ks_41028.htm
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| | Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva |
| | Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, known as Kuan Yin to the Japanese and Chinese, and Chenresig to the Tibetans, is the bodhisattva who most embodies compassion. | | | The name Avalokitesvara has its root meaning as "he who observes the sounds of the world". | | | (Note: Avalokitesvara means "Kuan Yin" in Sanskrit, the language of early India, from an earlier time when The Cry Regarder was depicted as a male figure. |
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http://web.singnet.com.sg/~alankhoo/Avalokitesvara.htm
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| | Avalokitesvara MetaFilter |
| | Also known as Lokeshvara in Sanskrit, Quan Yin, Guanyin, or Guan Shiyin in Chinese, Spyan-ras-gzigs in Tibetan, and variously Kannon Bosatsu, Kanjizai, Kanzeon, and Kwannon, in Japanese. | | | He knew all the details of Tibetan, Chines, Mahayana, Hinayana, Japanese and even Burmese Buddhism but I warned him at one I didn't give a goodamn about mythology and the names and national flavors of Buddhism, but was just interested in the first of Sakyamuni's four noble truths All life is suffering. | | | He claimed at once that I was a great "bodhisattva," meaning "great wise being" or "great wise angel," and that I was ornamenting this world with my sincerity. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/33002
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| | Shingon Buddhist Intl. Institute: Kannon Bosatsu |
| | Avalokitesvara (Kannon) is also called Kanzeon Bodhisattva, and this name indicates that this Bodhisattva can hear the voices and concerns of the world, and, in order to provide immediate relief, can change into many different forms to save people freely at will according to their time and place. | | | The Mother Goddess Avalokitesvara refers to the Buddha's Mother, and is a deity who nurtures people like a mother. | | | In the arena of Buddhist piety, no other buddha is worshipped by as many people as is Kanzeon (Avalokitesvara) Bodhisattva. |
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http://www.shingon.org/deities/jusanbutsu/kannon.html
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| | The High King Avalokitesvara Sutra This sutra is highly recomended by the Living Buddha Lian-Sheng or Sheng-yen Lu (Padmakumara) for reciting. | | | The king spoke to Sun, "You are stronger than I am; I regard you as I regard the Buddhas." The king then ordered the prison officer to write down the sutra and he ordered all the prisoners, inclu- ding the ones waiting for executions, to recite this sutra one thousand times. | | | One must not doubt this, for it is the word of Buddha. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/dj_jera/newage/hikiavsu.txt
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| | The Lotus Sutra: Chapter 24 |
| | Then the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Avalokitesvara accepted the pearl necklace from the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Akshayamati, out of compassion to the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Akshayamati and the four classes, and out of compassion to the gods, Nâgas, goblins, Gandharvas demons, Garudas, Kinnaras, great serpents, men: and beings not human. | | | If one be thrown into a pit of fire, by a wicked enemy with the object of killing him, he has but to think of Avalokitesvara, and the fire shall be quenched as if sprinkled with water. | | | If a man happens to be hurled down from the brink of the Meru, by some wicked person with the object of killing him, he has but to think of Avalokitesvara, and he shall, sunlike, stand firm in the sky. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/lotus/lot24.htm
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| | Lotus Sutra Chapter |
| | Endowed with transcendent powers and having fully mastered wisdom and skillful means, in all the worlds in the ten directions, there is no place where he will not manifest himself. | | | When the Buddha taught the chapter, "The Gateway to Every Direction," the thought of the highest and incomparable complete enlightenment awoke in eighty-four thousand sentient beings in the assembly. | | | At that time the Bodhisattva Dharanimdhara arose from his seat, went before the Buddha and said to him: |
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http://www.koyasan.org/nckoyasan/lotus_chap.html
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| | 25 - The Universal Gate of World-Voice-Perceiver Bodhisattva |
| | Chapter 25, which deals with the Kannon Bodhisattva, the Universal Gate of World-Voice-Perceiver Bodhisattva or Avalokitesvara, is a part of the Lotus Sutra of course; however, there are countless number of faithful men and women who take this chapter as an independent sutra regardless of whether they believe in the Lotus Sutra or not. | | | We can see a lot of statues of Kannon in Japan, China, Thailand and other Asian countries. |
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http://lotus.nichirenshu.org/lotus/lectures/lotus_25.htm
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| | Artist unknown / Kuan-Yin (Sanskrit: Avalokitesvara) / 571 |
| | Artist unknown / Kuan-Yin (Sanskrit: Avalokitesvara) / 571 | | | This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world. |
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http://www.davidrumsey.com/amico/amico180592-99042.html
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| | Monumental figure of Avalokitesvara on asianartresource |
| | The temples of Banteay Kdei, Ta Prohm, Preah Khan, Banteay Chmar and the great enclosure of Angkor Thom were all built during his reign. | | | There is a fine example of a four-armed Avalokitesvara from Preah Khan (Angkor), of some 2.15 metres (7 feet) in height in the National Museum, Phnom Penh- the head is reproduced as fig. |
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http://www.asianart.com/asianartresource/d3928.html
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