#  Avalokiteshvara 

 



Avalokiteshvara is the *bodhisattva* who looks down with compassion upon the suffering of all beings. In East Asia, this *bodhisattva* came to be popular in female form as Guanyin (China), Kannon (Japan) or Kwan Um (Korea), holding a willow branch and vase symbolic of her miraculous healing power. In Tibet, Avalokiteshvara is known as Chenrezig; each Dalai Lama is regarded as the reincarnation of Chenrezig.