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Role in other Eastern religions
Names in other Asian languages
Depiction
Localization of Guanyin in East Asia
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- Abode
- Mount Putuo
- Animals
- White parrot
- Symbols
- Vase Willow branch
- Venerated in
- Buddhism Taoism Chinese folk religion Yiguandao
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Overview
- Chinese Chinese language
- Pinyin
- Jyutping
- Bodhisattva
- Compassion Karuṇā
- Avalokiteśvara
- Sanskrit Sanskrit language
- Indian Buddhism History of Buddhism in India
- Androgynous
- Buddhahood
- Taoism
- Chinese folk religion
- Lotus Sacred lotus in religious art
- Pure land
- Sukhāvatī
- Lotus Sutra
- Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra
- Shaolin Monastery
- Longxing Temple
- Dule Temple
- Puning Temple Puning Temple (Hebei)
- Nanhai Guanyin Temple
- Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple
- Shitennō-ji
- Sensō-ji
- Kiyomizu-dera
- Sanjūsangen-dō
- Bodhimaṇḍa
- Mount Potalaka
- Chinese Buddhism
Etymology and usage
- Traditional Chinese Traditional Chinese characters
- Simplified Chinese Simplified Chinese characters
- Xuanzang
- Morpheme
- Kumārajīva
- -īśvara Ishvara
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ
- Tibetan Tibetan script
- THL THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription
Names in other Asian languages
- Yale Yale romanization of Cantonese
- Cantonese
- Hokkien
- POJ Pe̍h-ōe-jī
- Teochew Teochew dialect
- Malaysian Mandarin
- Tibetan Standard Tibetan
- Vietnamese Vietnamese language
- Japanese Japanese language
- Premodern Early Middle Japanese
- Canon Inc.
- Korean Korean language
- Khmer Khmer language
- Thai Thai language
- Burmese Burmese language
- Indonesian Indonesian language
- Dewi Deva (Buddhism)
- Sinhala Sinhala language
- Hmong Hmong language
- Nepali Nepali language
- Seto Machindranath
- Matsendranatha Matsyendranatha
- Jana Bahal
- Heart Sutra
Depiction
- Indra
- Brahma
- Buddha
- Vajrapani
- Vaisravana
- Androgynous Androgyny
- Sui Sui dynasty
- Tang Tang dynasty
- Tan Chung
- Mahāyāna sūtras
- Śūnyatā
- Song dynasty
- Buddhist robes Kasaya (clothing)
- Willow
- Amitabha Amitābha
- Fujian
- Hanfu
- White cockatoo
- Longnü
- Shancai Sudhana
- Guan Yu
- Han dynasty
- Qielan Sangharama (Buddhist deity)
- Weituo
- Pure Land Buddhist traditions Pure Land Buddhism
- Mahasthamaprapta
- Syncretism
Localization of Guanyin in East Asia
- Pratyekabuddha
- Arhats Arhat
- Sakra Śakra (Buddhism)
- Mahesvara Maheśvara (Buddhism)
- Shiva
- Great heavenly general Teen Ta Tseang Keun
- Vaiśravaṇa
- Cakravartin Chakravarti (Sanskrit term)
- Elder Elder (administrative title)
- Householder Householder (Buddhism)
- Brahmin
- Monks Bhikkhu
- Bhikkhunī
- Upāsikā Upāsaka and Upāsikā
- Deva Deva (Hinduism)
- Nāga
- Yaksha
- Gandharva
- Asura
- Garuḍa Garuda
- Kinnara
- Mahoraga
- Non-human
- Śūraṅgama Sūtra
- Four Heavenly Kings
- Tiantai
- Tangmi Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
- Shingon Shingon Buddhism
- Tendai
- Mohe Zhiguan
Role in East Asian Buddhism
Association with vegetarianism
Role in other Eastern religions
- Confucianism
- Southeast Asia
- Cihang Zhenren
- Shang dynasty
- Hariti
- Mazu
- Great Flood Chinese flood myths
- Dog Dog in Chinese mythology
- Rice
- New religious movements New religious movement
- Yiguandao
- Fuji Fuji (planchette writing)
- Zaili teaching
- Tiandi teachings
- Ching Hai
- Shinji Shumeikai
- Caodaism
Similarity to the Virgin Mary
- Filial Filial piety
- Tzu Chi
- Madonna and Child
- Edo period
- Maria Kannon Kakure Kirishitan
- Philippines
- Seoul
Gallery
- Shiyimian Guanyin
- Wenshu
- Puxian Puxian Pusa
- Tianlongshan Grottoes
- Shanxi
- Sandstone
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Ohio
- USA United States
- Dunhuang Dunhuang manuscripts
- Gansu
- Harvard Art Museum Harvard Art Museums
- Massachusetts
- National Palace Museum
- Luohan
- Zhou Jicheng Zhou Jichang
- Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Boston
- Mandala
- Mogao Caves
- Dunhuang
- Zhang Shengwen
- Dali Kingdom
- Yunnan
- Shiyimian Guanyin Guanyin
- Ren Ci Hospital
- Singapore
- Zhengding
- Hebei
- Liao dynasty
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Important terminology
chinese china also buddhist bodhisattva statue temple dynasty pinyin one form kannon avalokiteśvara buddhism name japan buddha shancai lotus goddess
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guanyin | Abode | Mount Putuo | 1.00 | infobox |
| Guanyin | Animals | White parrot | 1.00 | infobox |
| Guanyin | Symbols | Vase Willow branch | 1.00 | infobox |
| Guanyin | Venerated in | Buddhism Taoism Chinese folk religion Yiguandao | 1.00 | infobox |
| Guanyin | is a | most popular among her different esoteric forms | 0.90 | text |
| Guanyin | is a | hungry ghost king Ulkāmukha Pretarāja | 0.90 | text |
| Guanyin | is a | Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara | 0.90 | text |
| Guanyin | is a | patron saint of mothers and grants parents filial children | 0.90 | text |
| Guanyin | is a | central figureDabei Chan | 0.90 | text |
| the Chinese Buddhist Shuilu Fahui | instance of | the sūtra's account was also influential in the development of universal salvation ceremonies | 0.80 | text |
| Korean Buddhist Suryukjae | instance of | the sūtra's account was also influential in the development of universal salvation ceremonies | 0.80 | text |
| the Mandala of the Two Realms which frequently depict Guanyin as being clad in white.Yulan Guanyin | instance of | The significance of the color white in this manifestation was influenced by tantric sutras as well as mandalas | 0.80 | text |
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