What does the Thousand Armed Kannon do? Why is it called the Thousand Armed Kannon?

The thousand-armed Guanyin offered by our family is mainly for disaster relief.

There is a detailed introduction in the encyclopedia, so take a look at it respectfully.

"Thousand-armed Kannon"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 texts, the thousand-armed Guanyin Bodhisattva's thousand hands represent the protection of all living beings, and the thousand eyes represent the 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.

There is a moving story about the origin of the thousand-armed Guanyin in the folk:

Legend has it that King Myo Trang in ancient India had three beautiful princesses. The eldest daughter Miaojin, the second daughter Miaoyin, and the youngest daughter Miaoshan. Miao Jin and Miao Yin both served their parents at home, and Wei Miaoshan became a nun since he was a child.

King Miaozhuang tried to persuade her to return to the palace, but she never refused. In a fit of rage, King Miaozhuang ordered the temple to be demolished and the monks and nuns were driven away. How do you know that the gods blamed him, so that King Miaozhuang had 500 big abscesses all over his body, which could not be cured for a long time.

Later, a doctor said that the disease could only be cured by combining the hands and eyes of the flesh and blood.

So, King Miaozhuang turned to Miaojin and Miaoyin for help, but the two princesses were unwilling to give it. After the third princess knew about it, she resolutely offered her hands and eyes to treat her father's illness. Sure enough, soon King Miaozhuang's illness was **.

This event not only deeply educated King Myokso, but also moved Shakyamuni. In order to allow Princess Miao Shan to save suffering beings from time to time, he rewarded Princess Miao Shan with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes. Since then, Princess Miaoshan has become the thousand-armed and thousand-eyed Guanyin Bodhisattva that everyone prays for.

I hope it helps you and I wish you a happy life!

Now the thousand-armed Kannon symbolizes 1,000 hands with 42 hands.

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.

However, the statue of Guanyin with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes is not a real sculpture of a thousand arms and a thousand eyes, but a workaround. 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.