Kuan Yin
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Kuan Yin
from Chinese: one who hears the sounds of the world
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A $10,000 wooden figurine of Kuan Yin, a Chinese goddess of mercy, was decapitated and a $35,000 sable coat so saturated with smoke that Marcus deemed it uncleanable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indo-Chinese versions of the Madonna were apt to resemble the Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Buddhist goddess Kuan Yin, he explains, had many of the same virtues that Christians revere in the Madonna: purity, motherhood and the understanding of sorrows.
From Time Magazine Archive
A priest in the Hsi yu chi, 326; and Kuan Yin, 3341 baggage coolie to Hsian Chuang, 334–335; journeys with the Master, 341 sq.; his reward, 368 Sha Wu-ching.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
Kuan Yin received him and blessed him, giving him the name of Steward.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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