Kuan Yin

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Madhava wrote:

Also alot of her devotees told me Kuan Yin is a male who was painted to

look like a lady,so people concluded that Kuan Yin was a woman. I dont

know how true this is,anyone know more?

 

Nora wrote:

Kwan Yin was originally as Avolokiteshvara, the male bodhisattva of

compassion, and her transformation into a goddess may appear to be

something of an enigma in a religion where women were regarded as

less perfect beings then men.

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A bodhisattva combines the attributes of knowledge and compassion,

and in this light it is perhaps not surprisingly that the male

Avolokiteshvara should be assimilated with a Goddess, who often

exercise mercy on her role as the all-knowing judge of the dead.

 

 

 

Avalokiteshvara was seen as the Bodhisattva of Compassion by Indians.

(Manjusri was Bodhisattva of Wisdom.) Since the Chinese saw compassion

as a "feminine" trait, they associated the female Kuan Yin with this

bodhisattva. It is of interest that Kuan Yin is almost always drawn or

sculpted as flat-chested, and sometimes has the faint tracings of a

mustache on her upper lip!

 

-- Len/ Kalipadma

 

 

 

Om ParaSakthiye Namaha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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