| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Raktalokesvara" | Buddhist | God. A variety of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITESVARA. he is generally depicted sitting beneath an asoka tree with red blossoms and is popularly known as the Red Lord. His attributes include a hook, bow, red lotus flower, arrow and noose.... |
| God name "Ratnapani (with a jewel in the hand)" | Buddhist | God. A form of RATNASAMBHAVA and also a dhyanibodhisattva or meditation BUDDHA. Color: yellow or green. Attributes: a jewel and the moon disc.... |
"Sadaksari" | Buddhist | The tantric form of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Buddhist |
"Sagaramati" | Buddhist | The Bodhisattva whose Mind is like the Ocean. Buddhist |
| God name "Sagaramati (mind of the ocean)" | Buddhist | God. A BODHISATTVA or buddhadesignate. Color: white. Attributes: conch, and sword with staff.... |
| Spirit name "Samantabhadra (all-good)" | Buddhist | God. A form of VAIROCANA and a dhyanibodhisattva (spiritual meditation buddha). He sits on a throne carried by a white elephant. Color: blue, green or white. Attributes: bell, cup, jewel, lotus with prayer wheel or sword. In Tibet he is also known as Kun-tu-bzan-po.See also BO HSIAN.... |
| Spirit name "Sarvasokatamonirghatamati (destroyer of sorrow)" | Buddhist | God. A dhyanibodhisattva or spiritual meditation buddha.... |
| Goddess name "Sitapatra (with a white umbrella)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. An emanation of VAIROCANA and a female BODHISATTVA or buddhadesignate. Color: white. Attributes: arrow, bow, hook, noose, parasol, prayer wheel and white staff. Sometimes three-eyed and three-headed.... |
| God name "Surarigama (bright colored)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. A BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. Color: white. Attribute: sword.... |
| Goddess name "Usnisavijaya (victorious)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Primordial goddess. Form of VAIROCANA, widely worshiped in Tibet. Regarded as a female BODHISATTVA or buddbadesignate, and a dikpala or guardian of the zenith direction. Also a deification of literature. One of a group of DHARANIS. Color: white. Attributes: arrow, bow, image of the BUDDHA on a lotus leaf, jewel, noose, prayer wheel, staff and waterjar. Three-eyed, three-headed and with eight arms.... |
| God name "Vajragarbha (substance of a thunderbolt)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | God. A BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. Color: blue. Attributes: blue lotus, Book and staff.... |
| God name "Vasudhara" | Buddhist | The Buddhist bodhisattva of abundance and fertility. She is considered to be the consort of Kuvera, the god of wealth. |
| Goddess name "Vasudhara" | Buddhist | Goddess. A female bodhisattva or buddha-designate who is the Sakti of Vajrasattva and a form of AKSOBHYA or RATNASAMBHAVA. Color: yellow. Attributes: Book, ear of rice, images of Aksobhya and Ratnasambhava on the crown, parasol, pearl and waterjar with jewels.... |
| God name "Vidyapati-Lokesvara" | Buddhist | God. A variety of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITESVARA. Depicted resting on a lotus, his attributes include a fly-whisk.... |
The sword did not hurt her; on the contrary, it broke into a thousand pieces. Then the prince had her throttled to death and her soul sent to the inferno, but the King of Hell brought her back to life on a lotus blossom in a pond on Mount Putuo on the East Sea outside Hangzhou Bay in Zhejiang Province. Legend has it that her birthday was the nineteenth day of the second lunar month, the date of her achievement of immortality was the nine- teenth day of the sixth lunar month and the date of her attainment of nirvana was the nineteeth day of the ninth lunar month. After regaining her life, she started ridding human beings of their distress, re- storing eyesight to the blind, curing people of their diseases, giving milk to cows, bestowing sons on eunuchs, finding husbands for spinsters, rescuing shipwreck victims, and other acts of benevolence.
Once when Prince Zhuang fell seriously ill, Miao Shan, unmindful of the wrongs her father had clone her, saved him from the jaws of death by gouging out her own eyes and cutting off her own hands and making them into medicinal pills. To com- memorate her and atone for his misdeeds, Prince Zhuang recmitecl all the master craftsmen in his state and asked them to make a statue of Guanyin with quan yan quan stmu (meaning intact eyes and hands). The craftsmen, however, misheard it for qian yan qian shoW' (meaning a thousand eyes and hands). That is why many of the present images of Guanyin in the temples and monasteries are those with a thousand eyes and hands. The Octagonal Arhat Hall in the Xiangguo Temple in Kaifeng was built between 1766 and 1768 in the thirty-first to thirty-third year of the Qianlong reign period of the Qing Dynasty. Covering an area of seven hundred square metres, the architectural complex comprises a hall with covered corridors, a courtyard and a central pavilion--all octagonal in shape. In the pavilion is the statue of a thousand- eye and thousand-hand AvaloMtesvara Bodhisattva, which is seven metres in height and weighing four tons. This gilt statue, with faces and hands in all four directions, making a total of 1,048 hands and 1,048 eyes, was done out of one gingko tree. This implies that she is quick of eye and deft of hand when delivering worldly beings.
