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SERINDIA - STEIN

 
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Serindia - Silk paintings of Avalokitesvara on left (Kuan-yin or Guanjin) The Lord who looks down - and Buddha - Avalokitesvara is a favorite Bodhisattva who looks down with compassion and has a role of assisting beings to Nirvana - sometimes depicted with 4 arms out of a thousand arms - a guider of souls with a willow branch. Shown here assisting a pios donor. The Avalokitesvara illustration is also in On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks.

 
     

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