Tag: Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteśvara

• Avalokiteśvara’s Role and Transformation in Mahāyāna Buddhism

  

  Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra is the most widely circulated protection text in East Asian Buddhism, and it makes a claim that is easy to read past. Help is available, in any form, at any time, to any being who cries out. There is no means test. There is no doctrinal examination. There is no requirement…

  William Altig

  September 22, 2025

  Chapter 25, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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