#i mean i guess japan kinda went HAM with jizō like as an artistic theme and stuff
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It’s weird that the West tends to associate Avalokitesvara with mercy, when clearly Ksitigarbha is the bodhisattva who has it as his particular attribute. Avalokitesvara just has general compassion on the suffering in general: Ksitigarbha descends into the hells to preach Buddhism to the damned. One of those is more specifically mercy.
#just a thing i noticed#things that ain't so#that's guanyin and jizō#also isn't it odd we know one mainly by the chinese name and the other by the japanese one#i mean i guess japan kinda went HAM with jizō like as an artistic theme and stuff#but why guanyin and not kan-on?
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