Uploaded by Amidaphat48 on Mar 24, 2010Mua Thien Thu Quan Am 2009 HD, Alovakitesvara Bodhisattva Buddhist Dance, Thousand hands Buddha, Meditation, Traditional, Quan Yin PusaAbout Guan Yin:Guan Yin is the bodhisattva of compassion, revered by Buddhists as the Goddess of Mercy. Her name is short for Guan Shi [ссылка] means to observe, watch, or monitor; Shi means the world; Yin means sounds, specifically sounds of those who [ссылка], Guan Yin is a compassionate being who watches for, and responds to, the people in the world who cry out for help.Bodhi means wisdom or enlightenment; sattva means being or essence. Put the two together and you get bodhisattva, a being who is enlightened and ready to transcend the cycles of birth and death, but chooses to return to the material world in order to help other people reach the same level of [ссылка] is the ultimate demonstration of pure [ссылка] thousand hands of this bodhisattva represent Guan Yin's many abilities to render [ссылка] are a thousand eyes on these hands which give Guan Yin great powers to observe the [ссылка] Yin also has many faces so she can become who people need her to be, not necessarily herself, because her help is given in a way that is literally selfless.Due to the widespread influence of Chinese culture, Guan Yin has become arguably the most popular and [ссылка] bodhisattva in the [ссылка] can sometimes lead to confusion as people erroneously equate Guan Yin with [ссылка] instance, quite a few people have already mistranslated the Chinese name of the performance to Thousand-Hand [ссылка], the deification of Guan Yin can lead to a misconception at a fundamental level. A bodhisattva is not a deity but a human being - a spiritually advanced human [ссылка] Guan Yin is depicted as a beautiful Asian woman, anyone can be a bodhisattva regardless of appearance, race and gender. Whenever you act in accordance with a natural impulse of total compassion, you have taken another step toward becoming a bodhisattva yourself.