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The six kinds of Guanyin. There are two groups--

I.

That of Tiantai: [lang id =1028]大悲 most pitiful; [lang id =1028]大慈 most merciful; [lang id =1028]師子無畏 of lion-courage; [lang id =1028]大光普照 of universal light; [lang id =1028]天人丈夫 leader amongst gods and men; [lang id =1028]大梵深遠 the great omnipresent Brahma. Each of this bodhisattva's six qualities of pity, etc., breaks the hindrances [lang id =1028]三障 respectively of the hells, (sa) pretas, animals, (sa) asuras, men, and (sa) devas.

II.

As thousand-handed; the holy one; horseheaded; eleven-faced; Cundī (or Marīci); with the wheel of sovereign power.