Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have put off attaining nirvana to help others reach enlightenment. Renouncing their own salvation, they devote their power and energy to saving suffering beings in this world to help them find their personal enlightenment. They reside in a “celestial” realm which is a blessed spiritual field brought into being by their own virtue and into which they are believed to be able to bring others by their own spiritual power. The five Great Mahayana Bodhisattvas are Guanyin (Compassion), Majusri (Wisdom), Kṣitigarbha (savior of Beings in Hell), Samantabhadra (Buddhist Practice) and Mahasthamaprapta (Power of Wisdom). Guanyin’s commitment to saving all living beings means that she devoted herself to being the last person in the universe to attain Buddhahood.
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Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion is a Mahayana Buddhist deity and one of the three Great Chinese Goddesses in China. She sits meditation (dhyana mudra) hands in the lap and feet crossed in padmasana, also called the lotus position, with bare soles of the feet turned upward on a lotus throne atop a two-tiered footed stand….
This exceptional carving is form of Nanhai Guanyin which means Guanyin of the Southern Seas, one her most portrayed of her 33 manifestations during the Ming and early Qing dynasties. Her pedestal with hanging foliage and base in the form of stones indicates she is seated on her rocky outcrop on Putuo island in the…
Guanyin means “she who observes the sounds or cries of the world” and in Sanskrit she is named Padmapani or “born of the lotus.” She is one of the Three Great Chinese Goddesses (Irwin). During the Late Ming and Qing Dynasties in rural provincial regions and especially Southern China, Guanyin became a syncretic cult figure…
This Nanhai Guanyin sits on a rocky outcrop with stylized draped moss below her rounded robe. In pensive meditation – hands in dhyana mudra with thumbs touching and covered legs in padmasana – she gazes down with half closed eyes Her finely carved face is framed with hair looped over her pendulous ears signifying her…
This extraordinary rare piece is a special Chinese Popular Religion image of a Buddhist bodhisattva seated atop a round lotus throne with five arched and pointed petals atop a recumbent ox. It is a variant of Guanyin sitting in a typical posture with one leg up and the other bent in the position of royal…
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