The reason for the fame of the thousand armed Kannon

The full name of the thousand-armed Guanyin is the thousand-armed thousand-eyed Guanyin, also known as the thousand-eyed thousand-armed Guanyin. It is one of the six major Guanyin of Buddhism.

Buddhist scriptures say that the Thousand Hands of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin Bodhisattva means to protect sentient beings, and the Thousand Eyes means to see the world. After the Tang Dynasty, the statue of Guanyin with a thousand hands was gradually enshrined as the main image in many temples in China.

There is a touching story about the origin of the Thousand-armed Kannon. It is said that there were three beautiful princesses in Miao Zhuang in ancient India. The eldest daughter Jin Miao, the second daughter Miao Yin and the youngest daughter Miao Shan.

Jin Miao and Miao Yin both serve their parents at home, but Miao Shan has been a nun since she was a child. Wang Miao tried to convince her to return to the palace, but she refused. Enraged, King Miao Zhuang ordered the temple to be demolished and the monks and nuns expelled.

King Miao Zhuang knew that it was the fault of the gods, so he had 500 large pus pockets all over his body, which could not be cured for a long time. Later, some doctors said that this disease can only be cured with hand and eye medicine. Therefore, King Miao Zhuang turned to Jin Miao and Miao Yin for help, but neither princess would give them to them.

After the third princess found out outside, she resolutely stretched out her hand to treat her father and take medicine. Sure enough, King Miao Zhuang was soon **. This incident not only deeply educated King Miao Zhuang, but also moved Shakyamuni.

In order to save Princess Miaoshan from all suffering beings forever, he gave Princess Miaoshan a thousand hands. Since then, Princess Miaoshan has become the Guanyin with a thousand hands and thousands of eyes.

Buddhism believes that the sufferings and afflictions of sentient beings are diverse, and that the needs and desires of sentient beings are also different. So there must be a lot of immeasurable mana and wisdom to help sentient beings. For the benefit of all sentient beings, "I immediately make a vow that I will come here for the benefit of all sentient beings, and I will have a thousand hands and a thousand eyes," and "I swear that when I come, I will have a thousand hands and a thousand eyes."

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Pinyin qiān shǒu guān yīnBasic DefinitionSee "Thousand-Handed Thousand-Eyed Kannon".

Citations and explanations See "Thousand-Handed and Thousand-Eyed Kannon".

It is said that the prototype of Guanyin Bodhisattva is Shiva, and there are many stories about Shiva that you can find for yourself.

Guanyin once vowed to purify all sentient beings, but there were many sentient beings, and Guanyin felt quite powerful and incompetent. Thus Guanyin was transformed into forty-two bodhisattvas of great compassion with the intention of benefiting and benefiting all sentient beings. Seeing this, Guanyin's master, the Buddha of Immeasurables, advised him not to be impatient, otherwise he would not be able to reach it quickly.

The Buddha of Amitayus brought together forty-two individuals, leaving only forty-two arms, and gave each palm an eye to represent an incarnation. In this way, in addition to the two arms of the main body, there are forty arms, each arm is equipped with the "twenty-five beings" in the three realms of Buddhism (Buddhism believes that there are twenty-five sentient beings in the three realms, including the four continents, the four meanings, the six desires, etc.), and the two numbers are multiplied to one thousand.

Therefore, the statue of Guanyin, with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes, does not really have a thousand arms and a thousand eyes, but takes a flexible approach. Today's thousand-armed Guanyin statue often symbolizes a thousand hands with forty-two hands, each with a glance in the palm of each hand. In addition to the two hands on the Bodhisattva's chest, there are 20 hands on the left and right, each holding a knife, a gun, a dust, an umbrella, a mirror, a net bottle and other powerful magic weapons, and each hand has an eye, which is actually 42 arms and 42 eyes.

Hello answer, I have seen your question, and I am sorting out the answer for you, please wait for a moment Hello, Thousand-armed Guanyin"Full name"Thousand-armed thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara", also known as:"Thousand-eyed and thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara"It is one of the six Guanyin of Buddhism. According to Buddhist scriptures, the thousand-armed Guanyin Bodhisattva's thousand hands represent the protection of all living beings, and the thousand eyes represent the whole world. After the Tang Dynasty, the statue of Guanyin with a thousand hands was gradually enshrined as the main image in many monasteries in China.

About the origin of the thousand-armed Guanyin, it is said that the Baique Nunnery was built in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the nunnery sits in the north and faces the south, and the temple enshrines the Bodhisattva of "Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes", which is the third daughter of the king of Xinglin King Miaozhuang, and is called the "Three Emperor Aunts". Miao Shan likes to practice, once a monk in the White Bird Nunnery for the nun, because the King of Miao Zhuang forced it to return to the vulgar, and burned the White Bird Nunnery, causing hundreds of nuns to escape, Miao Shan is good at taking the white tiger away to Cangyan Mountain to practice, and then because the father got a strange disease, need to use his own daughter's hands and eyes as a medicine primer, the three emperors want to give up their hands and eyes for the father to cure the disease, the King of Miao Zhuang has a good conscience, refused.

After King Miaozhuang naturally recovered from his illness, he wanted to enshrine the Three Emperors as the Bodhisattva with all hands and eyes, build a temple for him, and shape the golden body. King Miaozhuang was originally a god in the lower realm, and the true dragon and the son of heaven were all "golden mouths and jade words", a sentence of "a thousand hands and a thousand eyes", conveying the holy decree to the builders, so when the temple was built, it gave the golden body of the three emperors a lot more hands and eyes, and the hands had long eyes, that is, today's "thousand hands and thousands of eyes" Bodhisattva.