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Deity Five House Gods
Guan Yin
अवलोकितेश्वर sa 觀音 zh 観音菩薩 ja
Chinese name of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara
- Also called Guanyin, Kwun Yam, Kwun Yum
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Later works
Later works that name Guan Yin
Written in 1500 CE or later, and not religious texts: works that retell or borrow the figure, not accounts of it.
What this means
Sorted out of the accounts by each work’s own recorded date on the source clock, and by its record not marking it as a religious text: the split is worked out here, not stated by any source. A religious text of any date stays among the accounts. None of these supplies the earliest account.
Also in films, games and series: Journey to the West
Connections
How Guan Yin connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply biological ancestry · institutional succession · agreement between teacher and student
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Identification 4
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Attribute 1
What this means
A domain, symbol or epithet as sources record it.
Does not imply an exclusive domain · the same association in every account
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
10 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 8 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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