[Buddha-l] Is Guanyin Catholic?

[Baopiguy at comcast.net]

Correct, but Kwan-Yin is perhaps THE leading Boddhisattva, having 
originally been Avalokiteshvara, one of Sakyamuni's erstwhile closest 
disciples. It's fun to go to major museums, esp. in China and Taiwan 
and see the statues and paintings taking him through a series of 
sexual gender assignment "surgeries."



>I think it's also safe to say that originally Guan Yin did not exist 
>- at least in one version of the story. According to that version, 
>Celestial Bodhisattvas were not part of "original Buddhism" - 
>whatever the heck that was. Certainly there are traditions that 
>claim the opposite - such as the Hua Yen tradition which says that 
>the Hua Yen Sutra was the very first thing "taught" by the Buddha 
>after his enlightenment. There are lots of those big-time 
>Bodhisattva beings in the Hua Yen Sutra.
>- Curt
>
>F.K. Lehman (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing) wrote:
>>Let us keep it in mind that Guan Yin (in at least one standard 
>>version of the story) was really, originally, male
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