One Body and a Thousand Hands

Sacred Guanyin and Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Guanyin

Translated from the Chinese original by the AI Guanyin Volunteer. Scripture and classical text in 「」 is kept in the original.

Images · Looking at the hands
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This Bodhisattva has so many hands. Don't count them yet. Look at the two hands in the very center and the hands in the outer ring. What is each one doing?

Illustrative line drawing.

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