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What does the western world think about our God?

Christians, what do you think about our God?
Our ancestors even since ancient times have been worshiping Kuan yin for thousands of years.

Kuan yin is Merciful, she hears those who call upon her and helps them even to lead them to the peace and happiness of the Western Heaven of O-Mi-To-Fu. Guanyin is a savior with boundless compassion, a comforter of the sick, lost, senile, frightened and unfortunate.
She is trusted and loved by all Chinese people. maybe she can be compared to what jesus is to you, that kuan yin is to us .
picture of kuan yin

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various Statues of Kuan yin

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She’s very like the Catholic Mary…a true bodhisattva if ever there was one.

Yin Statue

The Mystery Princess Kwan Yin

Instead, she chose the life of modesty and self-sacrificing – she went to live in a convent to become a truly enlightened person (bodhisattva). Her story is very similar to the story of the Prince Siddhartha Gautama – Buddha, and that’s why she if often regarded to as the female Buddha. Both, Kwan and Siddhartha Gautama managed to become truly enlightened and compassionate beings; both of them were striving to ease the sufferings of humankind.

The legend says that when Kwan Yin became enlightened and obtained the right to enter Nirvana (Buddhist Heaven), she proceeded to Heaven’s gates. She almost entered the gates, when she heard a sad cry made by someone on Earth. Being as compassionate as she was, Kwan returned to Earth to help the suffering person. She never entered Heaven’s gate, and remained on Earth to help people. The legend has it that she is still on Earth helping those who suffer, as well as helping anyone become as enlightened as her.

Kwan is the goddess and the embodiment of compassion. Similar to the Western Virgin Mary, she is the Eastern embodiment of a motherly figure. Those who suffer are her children, and they can always count on her for love, compassion, and sympathy. She is also the embodiment of true beauty and grace.

There are ways to increase the aid from Kwan. This can be done by chanting mantras that contain her name, or by placing figurines or images depicting her in your home. This way, whenever you are in trouble or despair, you can call her name or look at her picture, and this kind motherly being will come to the rescue. Her most notable feature is that she protects all, regardless of their social status and any other factors. When her help is needed, she comes to absolutely anyone’s rescue.

The origins of Kwan became a target of controversy in 406 A.D., when a Buddhist monk named Kumarajiva translated the Indian Lotus Sutra. In his translation, he refers to Kwan as the female form of Avalokitesvara – the male bodhisattva. However, the figure of the legendary Chinese princess Miao Shan (700 B.C.) – one of the sacred Buddhist saints, secured Kwan’s image as a woman.

Kwan Yin is often depicted holding a precious vase with the sacred essence of wisdom and compassion. She is frequently depicted in white robes with a lotus in her hand, which symbolizes purity of spirit. Since she can hear anyone’s cry, she is often depicted with symbolic large ears. Her radiant identity is associated with the number 33.
 
In the 9-10th centuries, the statue of this goddess could be found in any Buddhist monastery throughout China. Even now Kwan is the embodiment of a compassionate, wise, beautiful, and graceful deity. It’s believed 1/3 of the world still pray to Kwan Yin (Miao Shan) – the ideal of womanhood and infinite mercy.

Images of this Goddess are often used in feng shui.

About the Author

Jakob Jelling runs http://www.fengshuicrazy.com which teaches the ancient art of feng shui. Please visit his website to learn more about Kwan Yin.

what we have to do with the kuan yin statue that we had bought before we put it onto the altar table?

Its really a matter of superstition, especially for Chinese sect Buddhism where you give the statue to a monk or monastery so that they would pray and cleanse the statue, then give you a auspicious date that you may come and take the statue home.

For me, this practice is really a cultural thing and isn’t part of Buddhism at all, its more Taoist. The best thing you should do, and the most rational, is to clean up a nice clean altar, put some water as a sign of purity of heart, offer 3 incense sticks as a sign of the three gems of Buddhism and fresh flowers as a sign of beauty and serenity. Get the family out to pay respect to the altar together and then on a daily basis offer incense with a pure heart.

People bring in Kuan Yin statues to the home and business for different reasons, mainly and wrongly, for luck. The Buddhist scriptures state that the Buddha mind is in everybody and having a statue is simply to remind you of your practices and to be moral and good people. However I understand the cultural deep rooted beliefs and so when you pray to Kuan Yin, please include a prayer for all sentient beings as well as your own family. This way ‘luck’ is shared for everyone.

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