In addition: Guanyin Bodhisattva has Guanyin in white in many pictures.
Guanyin in white is well-founded in the scriptures, with the name of Brahma and provided by Tantric Sect. Avalokitesvara in white shows pure bodhicitta, so she lives in Bai Lianhua in white and goes by the name of "King Kong", which makes all her troubles disappear and turns her bad luck into an auspicious bodhisattva. Good men and women who worship Guanyin all over the world often travel thousands of miles to Wan Li to worship Guanyin in white in Changbai Mountain.
The "thirty-three-body" of avalokitesvara bodhisattva depicted in "Painting Pu Men Pin" is the most awe-inspiring image of Guanyin in white. This statue is also called "White Dress" and "White Guanyin". Because he is dressed in white and surrounded by white lotus, his clothes are called "white" and his residence is called "white place". White clothes show sage and pure bodhicitta. "The Great Sun Sutra" says: "Half-hearted, learning to be peaceful, translating the cloud' white place', so it is always respected in the middle of white lotus, so it is thought that the name ... white is bodhicitta. Living in this bodhicitta is also in vain. "
There is also a saying in Guanyin's Talking about the Great Rani Sutra in Pu Xian: "If you are a Guanyin, sit in a beautiful house, wear colorful clothes, kneel with your hands, look at the Buddha and listen to what the Buddha says. Next, the Buddha, the heavenly daughters knelt down to each other, presented their crowns with their hands, dressed in white, and went up to the Bodhisattva. " Wearing white clothes to listen to the Buddha is used to show the purity of listening to the heart and respect for the Buddha.
"Lin 'an Annals of Spring Offering" records: "In the four years of Jin Tianfu, the statue of Guanyin was carved in strange wood. Money, Wang Meng, and people in white seek to govern their homes, and Wang Wuqi builds Tianzhu to see Confucian schools. White is a woman who lives in heaven, and the layman is called' White Guanyin'. "This Guanyin bodhisattva dreams of money and is dressed in white. Hong Hao also mentioned that Guanyin Bodhisattva was always dressed in white in the Book of the End of the Song Dynasty, and called Changbai Mountain the residence of Guanyin in white. Although a little far-fetched, it shows a kind of psychology of Buddhist believers: they think that Guanyin Bodhisattva's clothes and residence are flawless.
Because Buddhists respect and admire Guanyin in white, people have created a large number of Guanyin images in white, and people have embroidered Guanyin images on fabrics with silk thread. The embroidery technology in the Tang Dynasty was highly developed and was widely used to embroider Buddha statues and Buddhist scriptures. In Bai Letian's collection, there are three things embroidered with Buddha: an embroidered Amitabha Buddha, a golden bun and a beautiful jade; A embroidery to save the bitter Guanyin bodhisattva, five feet two inches long and one foot eight inches wide, fluttering in white and radiant; There is also the embroidered Amitabha Buddha, which is relatively mature and has reached the realm of transformation. When Wu Zetian was in power, she ordered more than 400 statues of Xiu Xiang and Guanyin Bodhisattva to be made and distributed to temples and neighboring countries. It can be seen that at that time, from the official to the folk, from Buddhism to the secular, how the Buddha and Guanyin bodhisattva were worshipped, and how the image of Guanyin in white was widely spread.
Buddhism believes that Guanyin Bodhisattva is a threat to Amitabha, and it helps Amitabha believers to go to the western paradise. It is said that Guanyin must wear white clothes in order to accomplish this sacred mission. In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a sixteen-year-old woman in Xu Cun, Changshu, Jiangsu. 26-year-old widowed, childless, widowed, willing to live in pure land. She usually reads the works of Guanyin Bodhisattva every day. Once she dreamed that a white man gave her a Bai Lianhua to eat. After waking up, my mind is very different from usual. She began to face the west and recite the Amitabha Sutra every day. I have just studied Buddhism for three years, and I see that the Buddha is now bright, and there is a fireball the size of a child on the sleeve of the Buddhist scriptures. She was afraid that the water mass would burn Buddhist scriptures, so she quickly put it out with her hands. The hand touched the fire, but the fire turned into a relic. When she died, she claimed to have seen Guanyin in white pick her up, and then she left with a smile, as if she had no fear or regret about death.
According to "Avalokitesvara Appears in Dalagni", to support this avalokitesvara, it is necessary to draw a statue of avalokitesvara with white fine cloth, dressed in white, sitting on a lotus seat, holding a lotus flower and a vase. White Guanyin is also the creative theme of many painters and grotto artists. Guanyin statues in white are all images with two arms, but there are all kinds of instruments or seals in their hands, some of which hold flowers in their left hands and print them in their right hands. Some people hold sticks or silk ropes in their left hand and prajna reeds in their right. Some hold the lotus in their left hand and raise their palms in their right. Some people hold swords in their left hand and willow branches in their right. There are people standing on the lotus platform with bowls in their hands. Guanyin in white is considered to be able to eliminate disasters, prolong life and protect family safety. Women can also offer Guanyin in white for childbirth, childbirth and parenting, so it is very popular.