Gwan Shr Yin Pusa (觀世音菩薩) is one of the three Sages of Amitabha Buddha's Western Pureland of Ultimate Bliss. Also known as Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva...
Great Compassion Mantra (大悲咒)...
Amitabha Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha and Medicine Master Buddha...
阿彌陀佛, 釋迦牟尼佛, 藥師佛...
Amitabha Buddha (阿彌陀佛) is also known as Amitayus. Amitabha means Limitless Light and Amitayus means Limitless Life...
Shakyamuni Buddha (釋迦牟尼佛). Shakya, the Buddha's clan name, means "able to be humane." Muni means "sage." Shakyamuni means "Sage of the Shakyas."...
Medicine Master Buddha (藥師佛). He is also known as Medicine Master
Vaidurya Light Tathagata and Medicine Master Buddha Who Quells Disasters
and Lengthens Life...
Statue of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (上宣下化老和上塑像)...
Great Strength Bodhisattva, Amitabha Buddha and Gwan Shr Yin Pusa...
大勢至菩薩, 阿彌陀佛, 觀世音菩薩...
Medicine Master Buddha (藥師佛)...
Earth Store Bodhisattva (地藏菩薩) or Earth Treasury King Great Vows Bodhisattva. Also known as Kshitigarbha Bodhisattva. He is intent on saving all the suffering living beings in the hells and vows not to become a Buddha until the hells are empty...
Maitreya Bodhisattva (彌勒菩薩) is also known as "Ajita" which means "invincible." "Maitreya" means "compassionate clan." Dwelling in the "happy samadhi", he is foremost in the perfection of patience and the founder of the Consciousness-Only School in Mahayana Buddhism. He will be the next Buddha
in the future...
Why is he portrayed as one with a huge belly? The Venerable Master Hsuan Hua explains:
“Big stomach” means that he is able to bear up, to be patient and yielding. He bears what others cannot bear, yields where others cannot yield. He eats what others cannot eat...
Maitreya Bodhisattva is the Bodhisattva with the huge belly. His stomach contains all of space. He did not get that way from eating good food, however. His belly is simply like space and includes all of existence within it...
Wei Tuo Bodhisattva (韋陀菩薩) is a great Dharma Protector...
Eighteen Arhats and the Four Heavenly Kings...
十八羅漢和四天王
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