Guanyin (Kwun Yam) Statue - Repulse Bay, Hong Kong
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N 22° 14.086 E 114° 11.904
50Q E 211212 N 2461486
The statue of Kwun Yam stands in front of the Kwun Yam Shrine a Taoist shrine at the southeastern end of Repulse Bay, in the southern part of Hong Kong Island.
Waymark Code: WMMA7X
Location: Hong Kong
Date Posted: 08/20/2014
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Guanyin is an East Asian goddess of mercy, and a bodhisattva associated with compassion as venerated by Mahayana Buddhists. Commonly known in English as Goddess of Mercy, Guanyin is also revered by Chinese Taoists as an immortal. In Chinese folk religion there are mythical accounts about Guanyin's origins that are not associated to the Avalokitesvara described in Buddhist sutras. In Macau, Hong Kong and southern China, the name is pronounced Gwun Yam or Gun Yam in the Cantonese language, also written as Kwun Yam in Hong Kong or Kun Iam in Macau. (
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The Goddess of Mercy is the source, the female aspect of the universe, which gives birth to warmth, compassion and relief from bad karma as experienced by ordinary beings in cyclic existence. She engenders, nourishes, smiles at the vitality of creation, and has sympathy for all beings as a mother does for her children. In Vietnamese, the name of Bodhisattva of Mercy is Quan Âm or Quán Thé Âm. (
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