Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Helping Hands


The thousand-armed Avalokitesvara, or Guanyin in Chinese, the mythological Bodhisattva of Compassion who requested and received 1,000 hands in order to save all sentient life.  Baodingshan, near Dazu, China.
Posted by A.E.Z. at 10:12 PM
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2 comments:

  1. DarcoMay 3, 2012 at 8:39 AM

    Still kind of creepy...

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  2. A.E.Z.May 3, 2012 at 2:30 PM

    It does have a fifth-circle-of-hell-hordes-of-grasping-dead-souls kind of feel, doesn't it?

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