Originations & Destinations

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnm6Dwpyxfc&feature=related

          Heikki : Bodhisattva will surely take *me* by the hand too!

Wonderful version of the song.

I see Cyprian's conversion into a true acolyte of the Dark Goddess
akin to Avalokitesvara morphing into Quan Yin:
 	
          By the most popular and beloved of the Mahayana bodhisattvas. 
          The name Avalokitesvara means something like " the Lord who 
          looks down on the World" or according to another interpretation 
          " the Regarder of the Cries of the World". This bodhisattva is first           
          mentioned in the Lotus Sutra (approx. 1st century AD) which 
          together with the Karandavyuha Sutra describe him as rescuing 
          from all kinds of distress and danger anyone who calls out his 
          mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum (Om the Jewel in the Lotus Hum). 
          This desire and ability to help all without distinction is due to 
          Avalokitesvara's great compassion, indeed he is seen as the very
          embodiment of the Buddha's compassion.

          In India Avalokitesvara was usually portrayed as a handsome young           
          prince with the Buddha nestled in his crown, or sometimes as an 
          ascetic, iconographically very similar to the Hindu god Siva. He was 
          also given some of Siva's names - the Blue Throated One, 
          Mahesvara etc. In Tibet he is often portrayed with a thousand arms, 
          each hand with an eye in it, symbolising the seeing and reaching out 
          to help those in distress. In China however Avalokitesvara is more 
          usually represented as a beautiful white robed woman and is known 
          as Kwan Yin. From Mongolia to Sri Lanka, from Afghanistan to 
          Indonesia, the worship of Avalokitesvara has long been popular, even 
          fervent,and has inspired some of the most beautiful examples of 
          Buddhist art.

A. On, In China. J. Blofield, Bodhisatva of Compassion. Boston, 1988; in Sri Lanka, J.C. Holt, Buddha in the Crown. Oxford, 1991.

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/dharmadata/fdd27.htm

http://www.cambridgebuddhistcentre.com/resources/files/AvalokitesvaraThangka.jpg

http://www.dragonflyranch.com/images/indexpicts/quanyin_kitchen.jpg

I also note the names of "The Compassionate"—in their meanings of
"the Lord who looks down on the World" or " the Regarder of the Cries 
of the World"—in terms of possible application to spycraft, the eyes 
andears in the skies for illumanati of various stripes.