Study Henan Guanyin Image Of Guanyin Gelief

The5th century BC in ancient India Buddhism, is one of the religion, has a long history and rich content. Bodhisattva belief is the core of the north pass the mahayana Buddhism, the guanyin beliefs is a bodhisattva belief in one of the most popular with people of faith. In China, jun age guanyin belief was introduced into China, and was soon receive and spread, through long-term development, has become China’s most worshipped as gods.With the passage of time, the guanyin belief is not the same in every period, guanyin statues are constantly evolving. Is one of the earliest of guanyin statues of henan kuan Yin AMiTuo threat shi appeared, it is also one of the earliest henan guanyin faith pure land to type. Deliverance and guanyin image in henan are more, especially the longmen grottoes statues abundance and around the museum. With the development of buddhist art in tantra, henan has change the appearance of the goddess of mercy, longmen grottoes is the earliest place of tantrism guanyin statues. If we carefully analysis and observation, we can found that avalokitesvara statues in each period, each region, has different characteristics and change. In terms of the henan guanyin bodhisattva, his characteristics in each period is different, evolving along with the development of The Times, from his composition, arrangement, RongZi and detail observation and analysis, can see the sinicization of guanyin image and faith gradually, secularization, henan shui guan Yin and SongZi goddess of mercy appeared and distributed in the buddhist monasteries around33guanyin statues is one example. Chinese goddess of mercy image and beliefs-henan SiZhou third-holiest image with hidden guanyin in henan are widely distributed and he is rich, and the goddess of mercy appeared in the form of Lord Buddha, suggests that henan guanyin image with faith, unified the central plains to the guanyin belief. Buddhist art of China, secularization, prompting guanyin belief prevalent in all levels of society, up to the power of ordinary people to faith, especially in henan folk guanyin image and belief prevails, incense ShanSi, GuanYinCun, goddess of mercy temple, guanyin temple, main hall. Due to the images and beliefs are complementary to each other, there is a kind of faith is there must be a kind of image; There is a kind of image, also there will be a religion appear accordingly. Through the above reviews and research, suggests that henan guanyin image and beliefs are widespread.