Popular Deities of Chinese Buddhism (Illustrated)

  quake and tremble. Although she is a very popular Bodhisattva to the Chinese, she has not found as many devotees as Kuan S ...

  To worship and respect all Buddhas. 2. To praise the us-Come-One (e Buddha) 3. To cultivate the giving of offering. To ...

  C VII ao hih wo haisajyaguru uddha Yao Shih Fwo, one of the three foremost Buddhas of the Chinese Pantheon, is ...

 Despite his great popularity, temples dedicated to him are very scarce so that those who wish to worship him may do so at tem ...

 Y S F — B B ...

  Seventh Vow, which specifically pledges to relieve man of physi- cal illness and to dispel his spiritual confusion, earned ...

  It is because of past good roots in your previous lives that you are now reading about this great Buddha. It means that yo ...

  “Manjusri, if you see a pious man or woman who suffers from a disease, you shall do the following whole-heartedly for thes ...

  B — T D ...

  your eyes and imagine that the Buddha has manifested before you. Make three bows as a gesture of reverence. Make known the ...

  C VIII uan hih in ’usa valokitesvara odhisattva “Namo Ta-Chi-Ta-Pei Kuan Shih Yin P’usa”. is is the prayer wh ...

 and a host of other names. He is indeed the Lord who regards with compassion, all beings suffering from the evils of existenc ...

 K S Y P’ — A B ...

  e reasons for these female emanations are because of the then Confucianist influence on the attitude, customs and social ...

  deity in all of China, worshipped by both the Buddhists and the Taoists as well as those who are without a proper faith bu ...

  are angry or are in despair, comforting those who are sorrow- ful, and bringing forth feelings of love, devotion and conte ...

  the enormity of such an undertaking. Amitabha, the Buddha of Limitless Light, his Spiritual Father, quickly came to the re ...

 C-S-C-Y — K S Y P’ ...

 Many other Kuan Yin transformations are described fully in the various Mahayana Sutras and the underlying concept for all are ...

  Paradise of his spiritual father, Amitabha. No sooner had he emptied the hell of its inhabitants, within the next instant ...