![]() severally converting or transforming those in the hells, pretas, animals, asuras, men, and the devas these six Ti-tsang have different images and symbols. There are other developments of Ti-tsang, such as the 六地藏 Six Ti-tsang, i. Many have confused 眞羅 part of Korea with 暹羅 Siam. When represented as a monk, it may be through the influence of a Korean monk who is considered to be his incarnation, and who came to China in 653 and died in 728 at the age of 99 after residing at Chiu-hua-shan for seventy-five years: his body, not decaying, is said to have been gilded over and became an object of worship. At dawn he sits immobile on the earth 地 and meditates on the myriads of its beings 藏. He is described as holding a place between the gods and men on the one hand and the hells on the other for saving all in distress some say he is an incarnation of Yama. In Japan he is also the protector of travellers by land and his image accordingly appears on the roads bereaved parents put stones by his images to seek his aid in relieving the labours of their dead in the task of piling stones on the banks of the Buddhist Styx he also helps women in labour. ![]() His central place in China is at Chiu-hua-shan, forty li south-west of Ch'ing-yang in Anhui. Depicted with the alarum staff with its six rings, he is accredited with power over the hells and is devoted to the saving of all creatures between the nirvana of Śākyamuni and the advent of Maitreya the fifth century he has been especially considered as the deliverer from the hells. Though associated with Yama as overlord, and with the dead and the hells, his role is that of saviour. With hints of a feminine origin, he is now the guardian of the earth. One of the group of eight Dhvani- Bodhisattvas. Jizō, Kṣitigarbha, 乞叉底蘗沙 Earth-store, Earth-treasury, or Earthwomb. Eitel.Ĭustom Scroll Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva Yama sent her back to life to save his hell, when she was miraculously transported on a Lotus flower to the island of Poo-too'. Her spirit went to hell but hell changed into paradise. She is said to be the daughter of king Śubhavyūha 妙莊王, who had her killed by 'stifling because the sword of the executioner broke without hurting her. Guanyin is sometimes confounded with Amitābha and Maitreya. Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sūtra is devoted to Guanyin, and is the principal scripture of the cult its date is uncertain. ![]() There are many sūtras, etc., devoted to the cult, but its provenance and the date of its introduction to China are still in doubt. The island of Putuo (Potala) is the chief centre of Guanyin worship, where she is the protector of all in distress, especially of those who go to sea. Guanyin is one of the triad of Amida, is represented on his left, and is also represented as crowned with Amida but there are as many as thirty-three different forms of Guanyin, sometimes with a bird, a vase, a willow wand, a pearl, a 'thousand' eyes and hands, etc., and, when as bestower of children, carrying a child. as above, but the term 觀自在 (觀世自在) accords with the idea of Sovereign Regarder and is not associated with sounds or cries. The meaning of the term is in doubt it is intp. Originally represented as a male, the images are now generally those of a female figure. Regarder of the world's sounds, or cries, the so-called Goddess of Mercy also known as 觀音 觀世音善薩 觀自在 (觀世自在) 觀尹 光世音 (the last being the older form). (out-dated kanji) Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva) Avalokitesvara Kannon Kwannon Guanyin Buddhist deity of compassion More info & calligraphy: Guan Shi Yin: Protector Of Life Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
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