An 11th-century text, "A Tale of Flowering Fortunes," described the Six Kannon who "filled the worlds in the 10 directions with innumerable rays of light, which manifested in their colors the bodhisattva resolve to benefit all living beings everywhere."
Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan, by Sherry D. Fowler.
440 pages
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