Bonus: The Thousand-Armed Guanyin
Where did she get all those arms?
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The Bodhisattva called Guanyin Pusa in Chinese (Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva in Sanskrit; Kannon Bosatsu in Japanese) is often depicted with supernumerary arms, conventionally numbered as "a thousand" (though few statues …