appeared in the form of a great tiger, dispersed the crowd, and
carried the inaniminate body into the forest.Miao Shan’s spirit descended into hell, but her sweetness and
the purity of her prayers soon converted it from a place of great
suffering to a paradise. is alarmed the Registrar of the Liv-
ing and the Dead who then hastily petitioned Yen Lo, the King
of the Underworld, to order her removal declaring, ‘Since it has
been decreed that, in justice, there must be a heaven and a hell,
if Princess Miao Shan’s soul is not sent back to the upper world,
there will be no hell left, but only a heaven’.Her soul was then quickly transported back to her body which
was lying under a pine tree. Upon returning to life, Buddha
Amitabha appeared, and directed the princess to continue her
practice of the perfections in a cave called Hsuan Ai, in the
island of Pu-to.
For nine years she devoted herself to performing acts of merits
and meditational practices and attained Buddhahood. It was in
Pu-to Island that she acquired her two acolytes Hoan Shen-tsai
and Lung-nu, better known to all as Golden Youth and Jade
Maiden.In the meantime, King Miao Chung, who had displeasured the
Jade Emperor, Supreme Ruler of Heaven, by his heinous crimes
of burning a nunnery which nearly caused the loss of so many
lives and the killing of so virtuous a maiden as Miao Shan, that
he received the punishment of an incurable disease, the only