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Six Guanyin
In East Asian Buddhism, the Six Guanyin (Chinese 六觀音 (traditional) / 六观音 ( simplified), pinyin: ''Liù Guānyīn''; Korean: 육관음, ''Yuk Gwaneum''; Japanese: 六観音, ''Roku Kannon'', ''Rokkannon''; Vietnamese: ''Lục Quán Âm'') is a grouping of six manifestations of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, known as Guanyin (Guanshiyin) in Chinese and Kannon (Kanzeon) in Japanese. Overview A list of six incarnations of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin / Kannon) first appears in the ''Mohe Zhiguan'' by the Tiantai patriarch Zhiyi (538–597 CE), where these are equated with the six syllables of the dhārāṇī contained in the ''Dhārāṇī Sūtra of Invoking Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva to Dissipate Poison and Harm'' (請觀世音菩薩消伏毒害陀羅尼呪經; Taishō Tripitaka 1043) and associated to each of the six states of existence. These six, representing Avalokiteśvara's six qualities, are said to have the power to destroy the three kinds of o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thousand Armed Avalokitesvara - Guanyin Nunnery - 2
1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it can be written with or without a comma or sometimes a period separating the thousands digit: 1,000. A group of one thousand units is sometimes known, from Ancient Greek, as a chiliad. A period of one thousand years may be known as a chiliad or, more often from Latin, as a millennium. The number 1000 is also sometimes described as a short thousand in medieval contexts where it is necessary to distinguish the Germanic concept of 1200 as a long thousand. It is the first 4-digit integer. Notation * The decimal representation for one thousand is ** 1000—a one followed by three zeros, in the general notation; ** 1 × 103—in engineering notation, which for this number coincides with: ** 1 × 103 exactly—in scientific normalized exponential notation; ** 1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation. * The SI prefix for a thousand units is "kilo-", abbreviated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
