Knowing Guan Yin

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1 Knowing Guan Yin Tai Pei Buddhist Centre April 2016

2 Agenda Types and Varieties 观音的类别 Names 名号 Gender 性别 Mantras 咒语 Origin, Stories and Legends 传说 Practices & Spirit Love and Compassion 修持 Sutras (UGC) 经典普门品 Symbols and representation 法器

3 Origin & Stories 传说

4 Historical Figure?

5 Knowing Guan Yin 认识观音 Folk Tales Buddhist Sutra 香山大悲菩萨传碑文搜神记二十卷香山宝卷楚庄王 & 妙善法华经 - 觀世音菩薩普门品千手千眼观世音菩萨广大圆满无碍大悲心陀罗尼经楞严经

6 Thousand Arms Guan Yin

7 全手全眼?

8 全手全眼 & 千手千眼千手千眼观世音菩萨广大圆满无碍大悲心陀罗尼经 : 若我当来堪能利益安乐一切众生者令我即时身生千手千眼具足发是愿已应时身上千手千眼悉皆具足十方大地六种震动十方千佛悉放光明照触我身及照十方无边世界

9 Symbolic Thousand Arms More hands to help Skilful means methods & skills 善巧方便

10 五明瑜伽師地論卷 38 一切菩薩正所應求 Language 声明 śabda vidyā: 語言語言學訓詁學文學等, 即語言表達及書寫著述能力 Philosophy 内明 adhyātma vidyā: 教理學哲學, 為五明之首, 對佛教徒而言, 即經律論三藏對已證實相的菩薩, 內明既利自己修行, 又可幫助他人開悟 Logic / Critical thinking 因明 hetu vidyā: 邏輯學論辯術, 已證內明的菩薩, 可以藉此辯駁外道的異論, 令未相信佛法的人相信, 令已相信的人信仰更加堅定 Medicine 医方明 cikitsā vidyā: 醫學藥學乃至禁咒等, 可助強身健體, 並醫治別人的色身病苦, 拯救眾生 Science and Arts 工巧明 śilpa-karma-sthāna vidyā: 藝術科學工藝農業等, 即日常生活中所需要的技藝

11 Symbolic - Thousand Eyes Wisdom Helping at the right time, with right method

12 Name 名号

13 Translated Names 觀世音 - 竺法護觀自在 - 玄奘觀世音 ( 觀音 )- 鸠摩罗什 Goddess of Mercy

14 Translated Names - 觀自在 ( 玄奘 ) 般若波羅密多心經即是大般若經的心髓全部般若的精義皆設於此經, 故名為心經

15 Translated Names - 觀自在 Master Xuan Zhuang 玄奘大师觀自在 Regarder of World s Freedom 般若波羅密多心經觀自在菩薩, 行深般若波羅蜜多時, 照見五蘊皆空

16 Avalokitashvara 观 - Seeing, sensing, observing, or perceiving 世 - world 音 - sound Perceiver of the world s sound Look upon the world (with compassion and deep listening) 救苦寻声

17 Translators 姚秦三藏法师姚秦三藏法师鸠摩罗什

18 觀世音菩薩普门品尔时, 无尽意菩萨即从座起, 偏袒右肩, 合掌向佛, 而作是言 : 世尊! 观世音菩萨以何因缘, 名观世音? Thereupon arising from his seat with his right shoulder bared, Bodhisattva Aksayamati faced the Buddha with his palms pressed together, and spoke thus to him: O Bhagavat! For what reason is Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Hearer of the Sounds of the World) called Avalokiteśvara?

19 觀世音菩薩普门品佛告无尽意菩萨 : 善男子! 若有无量百千万亿众生, 受诸苦恼, 闻是观世音菩萨, 一心称名, 观世音菩萨即时观其音声, 皆得解脱 The Buddha answered Bodhisattva Aksayamati, saying: O son of a virtuous family! If innumerable hundreds of thousands of myriads of kotis of sentient beings who experience suffering hear of Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara and wholeheartedly chant his name, Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara will immediately perceive their voices and free them from their suffering.

20 观世音 Avalokiteśvara Ava -- Down 下 lokit (loka) --- to notice, behold, observe (the world) 观, 看 ( 世间 ) eśvara --- lord, ruler, sovereign, master ( 主, 神 ) "lord who gazes down (at the world)" Avalokitasvara Ava Down Lokit (loka) the world asvara sound of lamentation He who looks down on the world upon the cries of sentient beings 观世音

21 1st Century 2nd Century 3rd Century 4th Century 5th Century 6th Century 7th Century 8th Century 9th Century 10th Century CE1-99 CE CE CE CE CE CE CE CE CE Rise of Mahayanism Lotus Sutra Middle Way Yogacara Yogacara Yogacara Mahayanese Text 中观唯識瑜伽行派唯識瑜伽行派唯識瑜伽行派 Decline of Buddhism Nagajuna Asanga Vasubandhu CE CE CE 龙树菩萨 Kumarajiva 玄状 CE CE Visit India 629 asvara esvara

22 Avalokiteśvara or Avalokitasvara Does it matter?

23 Avalokiteśvara A Lord (God) with thousand arms and thousand eyes?

24 Gender 性别

25 Guan Yin in India Country: India. Site Name: Nalanda. Dynasty/Period: Pala. Date: ca. ninth century CE, 801 CE CE. Material: stone. Dimensions: H - ca in W - ca in. Current Location: National Museum, New Delhi, India.

26 Early Images of Guan Yin

27 Early Images of Guan Yin

28 Guan Yin in China

29 Guan Yin in China

30 Gender Female or Male? India Male China Female Transformation?

31 觀世音菩薩普门品 Universal Gate Chapter 佛告无尽意菩萨 : 善男子! 若有国土众生, 应以 [ 佛身 ] 得度者, 观世音菩萨即现 [ 佛身 ] 而为说法 The Buddha said to Bodhisattva Aksayamati: O son of a virtuous family! If there is any land where sentient beings are to be saved by the form of a [Buddha], Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara teaches the Dharma by changing himself into the form of a [Buddha].

32 Gender? Bodhisattva - Beyond Gender Flexibility appear in the form that suits the situations Skilful means in Mahayana Buddhism

33 送子观音由来不孝有三, 无后为大婚后没有孩子, 断绝香火, 是对祖宗最大的不孝

34 多子多福子孙满堂香火旺盛, 是最大的福气母以子贵养儿可以防老, 没有儿女老了就没有依靠 ; 儿子升官发财, 父母也能富贵享福法华经若有女人设欲求男, 礼拜供养观世音菩萨, 便生福德智慧之男 ; 设欲求女, 便生端正有相之女

35 多年不孕, 终于求观音, 送子成功

36 Varieties 类别

37 Thousand Armed Guan Yin

38 面然大士

39 西方三圣

40 Tibetan Guan Yin 绿度母 Green Tara 白度母 White Tara

41 Tibetan Guan Yin

42 Chenrezig

绿度母 Green Tara Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few

43 绿度母 Green Tara Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, "I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman."

45 Hayagriva 马头明王

46 愤怒相观音是慈悲的, 为何现愤怒相? 何谓慈悲?

47 觀世音菩薩普门品 Universal Gate Chapter 佛告无尽意菩萨 : 善男子! 若有国土众生, 应以 [.. 夜叉乾闼婆阿修罗.] 得度者, 观世音菩萨即现 [.. 夜叉乾闼婆阿修罗 ] 而为说法 The Buddha said to Bodhisattva Aksayamati: O son of a virtuous family! If there is any land where sentient beings are to be saved by the form of a [..nāga, yaksa, gandharva, asura], Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara teaches the Dharma by changing himself into the form of a [nāga, yaksa, gandharva, asura].

48 Emotional or Intentional?

49 Questions and Answers 拜观音不可以吃牛肉?

000-A-165 撠??摨?

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