File:Chinese - Seated Guanyin (Kuan-yin) Bodhisattva - Walters 25256 (2).jpg

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current06:12, 22 December 2016Thumbnail for version as of 06:12, 22 December 20161,690 × 1,800 (175 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)This late Ming dynasty dry-lacquer sculpture is an image of the bodhisattva Guanyin, an enlightened being venerated in Chinese Buddhism as an embodiment of compassion. Called a "Water-moon Guanyin" or "Guanyin sitting in Royal Ease," this theme and its iconography derive from textual inspiration found in the Avatamsaka Sutra (the central text of the Hua-yen school of Buddhism), and indigenous Chinese traditions. The dry lacquer technique was popular, but examples of this size and degree of refinement are rare.
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