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* '''Bodhisattva''' are genderless beings who are on the path to Buddhahood and have chosen to stay behind to compassionately guide others to Nirvana. | * '''Bodhisattva''' are genderless beings who are on the path to Buddhahood and have chosen to stay behind to compassionately guide others to Nirvana. | ||
* '''Avalokiteśvara''', a bodhisattva, sometimes shown as an androgynous man, who can appear in a form of any gender. | * '''Avalokiteśvara''', a bodhisattva, sometimes shown as an androgynous man, who can appear in a form of any gender. | ||
** '''Guanyin''' (Kwanyin, Kannon), a syncretic merging of Quan Yin, an indigenous Goddess of Mercy, with the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, appearing when Bhuddism reached China | ** '''Guanyin''' (Kwanyin, Kannon), a syncretic merging of Quan Yin, an indigenous Goddess of Mercy, with the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, appearing when Bhuddism reached China via the Silk Road, beginning in the 1st or 2nd century CE.<ref>Zürcher (1972), pp. 22–27.</ref> | ||
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