Pai-i Kuan-yin

(Chinese). The ‘White-Robed Kuan-yin’. An iconographic depiction of the Bodhisattva Kuan-yin (Sanskrit, Avalokiteśvara) wearing a white garment. In Chinese esoteric Buddhism this is the sixth of the 33 forms in which the Bodhisattva is visualized. This form has also been very popular in Chinese and Japanese ink painting, in which the Bodhisattva is usually depicted seated on a stone overlooking the sea.