![]() Being utterly free from pride or vengefulness, Kuan Yin gave up her eyes so her father could see. The gods of the underworld didn’t like how things were going so they asked the Buddha to take her away, and he restored her to life.īefore long her father was struck blind with the plague. Kuan Yin’s soul went down to the underworld where her purity turned the place into paradise. When she refused, in some legends he had had her killed. She wished to become a Buddhist nun, but her father refused it because he wanted her to get married and devote her life to marriage. In some Chinese legends, Kuan Yin was the saintly daughter of an evil ruler during the Zhou Dynasty. She is the most beloved of the Chinese goddesses. She is the champion of the unfortunate, the sick, the disabled, the poor, and those in trouble. She is also a grantor of wishes, and in particular, a fertility goddess capable of granting children. She is regarded by many as the protector of women and children. ![]() She is revered today in many parts of the world as the Goddess of Unconditional Love, Compassion and Mercy. ![]() She is a bodhisattva – an “enlightened one”. Kuan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy is a virgin goddess. ![]()
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