e above account has been included in this chapter not for the
purpose of propagating KYCO but, to encourage those who are
seeking Kuan Yin’s help to do so with firm faith.
e iao han egend
e legend of Kuan Yin’s emanation as Princess Miao Shan
has caught the hearts of all the Chinese people. To them it is
common knowledge that Kuan Yin is the enlightened form of
their beloved princess and therefore Kuan Yin, their Goddess of
Mercy, cannot be a male God or Deity. is, in fact, is the fixed
view of the Taoists and those who are not so well-informed of
Buddhism. Who can really blame them for holding such a view
when the episode of such a sweet princess turning into a God-
dess happened only slightly more than two thousand years ago
in a country whose history is well remembered right down to
five thousand years?
Towards the end of the Chou Dynasty (around 3rd Century ),
in the kingdom of Hsing Lin, there lived a king called Miao
Chung. He had three daughters and they were Miao Ching,
Miao Yin and Miao Shan. Before the birth of the third girl,
Queen Po Ta had a strange dream in which she saw a heavenly
pearl transforming into a fiery sun which then tumbled down
and settled at her feet. When told of it, the king, in his wisdom,
considered the seeing of such a celestial sign to be an excel-
lent omen and he looked forward to having a male heir to his