Hi Yawares,
I have beautiful pictures of Guan-yin temples in Singapore.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/i ... +singapore" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In Taiwan
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/i ... ple+taiwan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In Korea
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/v ... 1nqOzM9cW1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I'm a new member
Tidathep
Guan-Yin, THE GODDESS OF METTA
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Dear Tidathep,tidathep wrote:Hi Yawares,
I have beautiful pictures of Guan-yin temples in Singapore.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/i ... +singapore" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In Taiwan
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/i ... ple+taiwan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In Korea
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/v ... 1nqOzM9cW1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I'm a new member
Tidathep
I love all of your pretty Guan-Yin pictures very very much
Welcome ' new beautiful member'
yawares
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Guan-Yin, Korea
Gaeyang Halmi, the Sea Goddess of Korea’ part 4 by Helen Hwang
Tidathep
Gaeyang Halmi, the Sea Goddess of Korea’ part 4 by Helen Hwang
Tidathep
Guan-Yin, THE GODDESS OF METTA
Super photostidathep wrote:Guan-Yin, Korea
Tidathep
Thank you
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After her death, the families of many fishermen and sailors began to pray to Mazu in honour of her acts of courage in trying to save those at sea. Worship of her spread quickly. Much of her popularity in comparison to other sea deities resulted from her role as a compassionate motherly protector in contrast to authoritarian father figures like the Dragon Kings. However Mazu is unique as she is portrayed as both an authoritative deity and a compassionate being. She is usually depicted wearing a red robe, and sitting on a throne.
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Dear Pegembara,
Thank you very much for the lovely photo...In Thailand too, temples near many beaches have Guan-Yin statue face to the sea. People around the world love Goddess Guan-Yin.
Southern Sea Guanyin 南海观音China
Sanya South China Sea
Guanyin of the south china sea mount xiqiao is a statue of guanyin ...
yawares Guan-Yin
Thank you very much for the lovely photo...In Thailand too, temples near many beaches have Guan-Yin statue face to the sea. People around the world love Goddess Guan-Yin.
Southern Sea Guanyin 南海观音China
Sanya South China Sea
Guanyin of the south china sea mount xiqiao is a statue of guanyin ...
yawares Guan-Yin
Guan-Yin, THE GODDESS OF METTA
Hi Yawaresyawares wrote:Dear Pegembara,
Thank you very much for the lovely photo...In Thailand too, temples near many beaches have Guan-Yin statue face to the sea. People around the world love Goddess Guan-Yin.
yawares Guan-Yin
How are you today, not seen you write much recently.
I think Guan Ying is popular with Thai Chinese as many were nautical traders who relied on the sea. Hence we see her and the Chinese community around the Thai coast.
I think the biggest one was being constructed in Surat when I lived there.
With metta
Graham
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---------GraemeR wrote: Hi Yawares
How are you today, not seen you write much recently.
I think Guan Ying is popular with Thai Chinese as many were nautical traders who relied on the sea. Hence we see her and the Chinese community around the Thai coast.
I think the biggest one was being constructed in Surat when I lived there.
With metta
Graham
Dear Graham,
I post at SD/JTN/Buddhavihara/Facebook/DSG...and still post pictures adding to my temple stories right here @DW...and I have a picture for U too...
Big Standing Guan Yin and two dragon in Surat Thani,Thailand
yawares
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Rituals and reverence for this type of thing are not really Theravada.
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Hi Alan,
The veneration of Guan Yin in Thailand and elsewhere doesn't really surprise me. I've seen first hand, the veneration of nats in Myanmar.
For some, the veneration of Guan Yin or someone else is just giving physical form to desirable qualities. And in venerating that 'person', they venerate those qualities and perhaps may even go on to develop those qualities.
kind regards,
Ben
My observation has been that Theravada is more eclectic and atomistic than how many of us perceive it in the west.alan wrote:Rituals and reverence for this type of thing are not really Theravada.
The veneration of Guan Yin in Thailand and elsewhere doesn't really surprise me. I've seen first hand, the veneration of nats in Myanmar.
For some, the veneration of Guan Yin or someone else is just giving physical form to desirable qualities. And in venerating that 'person', they venerate those qualities and perhaps may even go on to develop those qualities.
kind regards,
Ben
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Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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Venration of nats? What is that?
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One must venerate the omniscient (or nearly so0 god Google:alan wrote:Venration of nats? What is that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_(spirit" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)
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This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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Beliefs in spirits and rituals strikes me as a waste of time. The Suttas have a few words about that subject.
Guan-Yin, THE GODDESS OF METTA
Lots of things in Thailand are not really Buddhist, it's all mixed up with Taoism, Hinduism and more ......alan wrote:Rituals and reverence for this type of thing are not really Theravada.
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I think this is nice: