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Description of  Personal Salvation and Filial Piety: Two Precious Scroll Narratives of Guanyin and Her Acolytes (Classics in East Asian Buddhis

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was a handsome prince when he entered China. As Guanyin, the Bodhisattva was venerated from the eleventh century onward in the shape of a beautiful women who became a universal savior. Throughout the last millennium, the female Guanyin has enjoyed wide and fervid veneration throughout East Asia and has appeared as a major character in literature and legend. This offers a fully annotated translation of The Precious Scroll.