Bodhisattva Guan Yin (Avalokiteshvara) Stories: Many Faces of the Buddha of Compassion

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Called the Buddha of Compassion, the Goddess of Mercy, the One Who Hears the Suffering of the World, and many other names, Avalokiteśvara

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:03 Original video from Phap Quong Temple, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA
00:08 Miracle of the Dragon, Ming Dynasty China
00:16 Hotei and Children Carrying Lanterns by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
00:24 Original video from Phap Quong Temple, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA
00:36 Guanyin of the Water Moon, Northern Song Dynasty China, 968
00:56 White Tara, Central Tibet, mid 18th–early 19th century
01:23 Shabkar, photographed by Matthieu Ricard
01:27 Shabkar, 18th century Tibetan Monk quoted by Reginald Ray in Tibetan Buddhism Reader
02:11 The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Song Dynasty China, from the San Francisco Asian Art Museum
02:57 Faces of Compassion
03:02 Six Avalokiteshvaras by Inshō Dōmoto
03:40 Universal Gateway, from the Lotus Sutra inscribed by Sugawara Mitsushige, Kamakura Period Japan, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
03:58 Lotus Sutra, Chapter 25
05:34 Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara, Qing Dynasty Tibet, from the Birmingham Museum of Art
05:50 Shrine to the Thousand-Hand Eleven-Headed Guanyin, Zhejiang, China, photographed by Nyarlathotep1001, licensed under Creative Commons
06:07 Avalokiteshvara with One Thousand Hands and One Thousand Eyes, Dali Kingdom, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
06:39 Encountering Divinity
06:43 Statue of Avalokiteśvara in Linh Ung Pagoda, Da Nang, Vietnam
07:00 Record on Kannon's Miracles by Hiroshige Utagawa II and Toyokuni Utagawa IV
07:38 Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, from the Hong Kong Heritage Museum
07:49 Green Tara, Goddess of Compassion by Renuka Gurung, from the United Kingdom Royal Collection Trust
08:07 Guanyin Above Clouds of Fire by Huang Bore, from the Hong Kong Museum of Art
08:25 Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara as the Water Moon Guanyin with Child, Qing Dynasty China, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
08:54 Four-Arm Avalokiteśvara (Golden Thangka) by Xi Hedao, from the China Intangible Heritage Industry Alliance
09:20 Praises to the Twenty-One Taras
10:09 Green Tara, 13th century Tibet, from the Rubin Museum of Art
10:23 Tara Thanka, 18th century Tibet, from the Rubin Museum of Art
11:01 A Vision of Compassion
11:06 Map of Asia by Johann Matthias Hase
11:15 Avalokiteśvara, 9th century Pala, from the National Museum of India, photographed by Hyougushi, licensed under Creative Commons
11:19 Green Tara by Prithvi Man Chitrakari
11:23 Kannon Bosatsu by Princess Mitsuko
11:36 Nankai no Tsuki (Moon of the Southern Sea) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
11:58 Water-Moon Avalokiteśvara (Suwŏl Kwanŭm), 14th century Korea
12:11 White-Robed Kannon by Kawanabe Kyōsai
13:23 Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva on the South Sea by Gim Hongdo
14:06 White Tara, 19th century Tibet, from the Hwajeong Museum
14:56 Conclusion
15:03 Original video from Asia Times Square, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA
15:10 Bodhi Tree (Whiteleaf) in Wat Hua Hat, Thailand, licensed under Creative Commons
15:13 Budai Figurine and Cloth Flowers, photographed by Fran Hogan, licensed under Creative Commons
15:17 Shrine to a Tang Dynasty Stone Statue of Thousand-Armed Guanyin, photographed by Nyarlathotep1001, licensed under Creative Commons
15:20 Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin) With a Child, Qing Dynasty China, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
15:24 The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon by Hokusai

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