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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 358707, member: 2844&quot;]I must have been asleep all this time, I certainly slept through all this.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is Guanyin, but very close to the original Avalokiteshvara she was based on. Guanyin is a fusion of the Buddhist Bodhisattva of mercy Avalokiteshvara (male), and a pre-Buddhist Chinese Goddess. A Bodhisattva is an aspect of the Buddha.</p><p>Avalokiteshvara is called &quot;the one with a thousand arms and a thousand eyes&quot;, to reach out to all those in need. The many faces serve to see and hear all suffering.</p><p>Although this Guanyin is based on Avalokiteshvara, according to Chinese tradition Guanyin was given &quot;a thousand arms&quot; by the celestial Buddha Amithaba to save people from Samsara, the cycle of rebirth. She is the guardian of sailors.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never seen the Hindu Goddess Kali/Durga (two sides of the same Goddess) portrayed in a Chinese style and with Chinese characters. There are few Hindus in China, and as far as I know, their religious objects were made in the traditional Hindu style and with Sanskrit script.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like resin to me as well. Besides, objects that look like bone or ivory but have that grey &#039;stuff&#039;, are generally resin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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