[Buddha-l] Is Guanyin Catholic?

[curt]

The Stillwater Zen Center in Richmond, VA has a very nice Chinese scroll 
with a very strange looking Kuan Yin - she is rather potbellied and has 
a very thin mustache and teeny-tiny goatee like beard. There is also a 
small child looking up at her with this wonderfully puzzled look on it's 
little face. It is done so matter-of-factly that you can easily not 
notice it. At first glance, and even at second - it looks like the 
embodiment of motherly-feminine compassion - complete with small child. 
Even once you've had a closer look and puzzled at the goatee - the 
painting still looks simply like a very nice, well-done but rather 
generic Kuan Yin. I'm pretty sure it was purchased on ebay.
- Curt

jkirk wrote:
> Explain please what you mean by "taking him through a series of sexual 
> gender assignment "surgeries."
> What do these statues or paintings show? A Guanyin with a mustache 
> perhaps?
> Thanks.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: <Baopiguy at comcast.net>
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>>
>> 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."
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