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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This provincial Guanyin made for a home altar sits in anjali mudra. Portrayed as humble, approachable, she wears a 5-lobed diadem, hair in a chignon with braids and modest robe seated on a waisted lotus throne with stacked lotuses.
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