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| Thousand-Armed Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteśvara | |
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 Sahasrabhuja by Ninkai in Shojokein | |
| Sanskrit | Sahasrabhuja Avalokiteśvara (सहस्रभुज अवलोकितेश्वर) |
| Chinese | Qiānshǒu Qiānyǎn Guānyīn (千手千眼觀音) |
| Japanese | Senju Kannon (千手観音) |
| Korean | Cheonsu Gwaneum (천수관음, 千手觀音) |
| Tibetan | སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ |
Thousand-armed Kannon (千手観音, Senju Kannon; Sanskrit: सहस्रभुज, Sahasrabhuja) is a bodhisattva worshipped in Buddhism. She is one of the six forms of Guanyin. She is one of the most widely worshipped forms of Guanyin.
Her seed syllable (bījamantra) is hrīḥ (ह्रीः) and heart mantra (hṛdayamantra) is oṃ vajradharma hrīḥ svāhā (ओं वज्रधर्म ह्रीः स्वाहा).
She has Twenty-Eight Attendants (二十八部衆, Nijūhachi Bushū) that help her.
She is part of a group of gods called the Kumano Gongen. There is a 12 god version, and a three god version with Amitabha, the Medicine Buddha and Thousand-armed Kannon. She is identified as Izanami-no-Mikoto in this context.
She holds many things with her many arms in art.
In Tibetan Buddhism, she is male.
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