Amulet, Buddhist pendant. Guan Yin, Chenrezi in a 6-petal Lotus. Brass, 24k gold plated. Pendant opens with a button. BODHISATTVA GUAN YIN/ CHENREZI The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Hindi ???????????? Avalokite?vara, Chinese ??? Gu?nshìy?n or ?? Gu?ny?n, Shanghai dialect Kueu(sy)'in, Korean Gwanseeum ???, Japanese ?? Kan'non, Tibetan Chenrezig, Vietnamese Quan Th? m, Indonesian Kwan Im, Khmer ???????? Lokesvara) is arguably the most revered and popular bodhisattva among Mahayana Buddhists. He is also used as a yidam (protective deity) in tantric meditations. As a protean and syncretic bodhisattva (able to represent all other bodhisattvas), embodying ultimate compassion, he can be portrayed as feminine in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, in the form of Guan Yin. He is considered the protector of Tibet, where King Songtsen Gampo and later the Dalai Lamas are seen as his emanations. This is also the case with other tulkus like the Karmapa. Also known as Padmap??i or Ma?ipadm?, he is invoked through the famous mantra Om? Ma?ipadme h?m (? ????????????). Chenrezi is the bodhisattva of love and compassion. The practice of Chenrezi aims to cultivate love and compassion for all sentient beings without distinction. Chenrezi manifests in various forms: the most well-known is the 10-headed and 1000-armed Chenrezi of compassion, who vowed to his spiritual father, the Buddha Amitabha, to dedicate all his energy to liberate all sentient beings and not to rest until all sentient beings were freed from their suffering. If he were ever to doubt his mission, 'may my head shatter into ten pieces and my body into a thousand.' When, after deep meditation and continuous recitation of the Mantra of Mani, he saw that the ocean of suffering had not yet been emptied, he fell into profound despair and shattered his head into ten and his body into a thousand. The mantra with the six syllables OM MANI PEME HOENG is the most well-known mantra in Tibetan Buddhism.