File:A Chinese deity identified as Kuan Yin Wellcome V0047144.jpg

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A Chinese deity identified as Kuan Yin
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A Chinese deity identified as Kuan Yin
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A Chinese deity identified as Kuan Yin, seated in the lotus position on a jade throne, with ten arms, carrying weapons, a bell and round objects. Painting by a Chinese artist. Kuan Yin, the Chinese Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion in her eight-armed form. In Indian Mahayana Buddhism, the bodhisattva is male and called Avalokitesvara, but in China and Japan the bodhisattva of compassion is female

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