Avalokitesvara, the kindest and most peaceful goddess.Avalokitesvara is the daughter of the Jade Emperor, and was to be married to someone to help them attain the throne, she refused, and the Jade Emperor was angry. She managed to get moved to a nunnery to help others, but in the Jade Emperor's anger, he set the nunnery on fire, and nearly killed her, but she was saved by other gods nearby with a heavy storm. She was eventually executed by him and was sent to hell as a soul, but she made hell into a paradise and was resurrected and moved by the Buddha of western paradise to be protected for nine years. She spent that time helping all those she could, saving and helping dying people, victims of shipwrecks, and the poor. As legend goes, her father, from his bad deeds, gained bad karma and caught a deadly illness, and the only one who could save him was his daughter, Avalokitesvara. She gave up her hand and eye to save him, and him being in her debt, became a convert to Buddhism
|