Guan Yin is a Bodhisattva. A Bodhisattva is one who has arrived at Nirvana and accomplished Enlightenment, however has decided to stay on earth to relieve the agony of mankind and to lead them to Enlightenment. Guan is the goddess of sympathy, and she is the main female Bodhisattva. In any case, she was not constantly female.  First and foremost, the divine force of sympathy was Avalokite vara, and he was male. The Buddhist divine force of empathy stays male today in the two India and Tibet. In any case, when Buddhism was brought to China in the fifth century it was hard for the Chinese to identify with a male divine force of empathy. In the Taoist convention the divine force of sympathy was female. Thus, after some time the two customs consolidated and the outcome was a female Buddhist goddess of empathy. At the point when her sex changed she named changed too and she became Guan Yin.

Guan Yin is regularly indicated holding a youngster in her arms. This is on the grounds that she is the Buddhist holy person of infertile ladies. The youngster is an image that shows that she hears their weeps for kids. The whiteness of her garments is the image of virtue. At times she is delineated holding a mala in one hand. This symbolizes her dedication to Buddhism. At the point when we see Guan Yin with the lotus bloom we are reminded that however our lives may be encompassed by the mud of wretchedness we can achieve edification. Regularly statues of Guan Yin show her with numerous arms, and an eye in the palm of each hand.

An old Chinese fantasy delineates the account of how Tuong Phat Ba Quan Am became and how she earned her thousand arms and eyes. In China during the seventh century a lord had three little girls. The best want of his third and most youthful girl was to be a religious recluse. Be that as it may, the lord needed her to wed. At the point when she dissented, the ruler lost control and flew into anger. He requested her to serve the family by doing the most humble undertakings, for example, scouring chamber pots and developing vegetables in desolate rough ground. He was certain that such assignments would humble her and roll out her improvement her mind and follow his desires. Be that as it may, it was not to be.

She had the option to develop wonderful vegetables in the nursery. At the point when the ruler saw that his arrangement was thwarted he was exceptionally irate and request her execution. The killer was a sort hearted man, and he concocted an approach to make the sword break into a thousand pieces and leave the young lady safe. At the point when the lord saw that the execution was not fruitful he assumed control over issues and figured out how to slaughter her himself.