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Guanyin took off and dashed to the edge of a cliff and jumped off, with the pirates still in pursuit. Shancai, in his desperation to save Guanyin, jumped off after her. Shancai and Guanyin managed to reascend the cliff, and at this point, Guanyin asked Shancai to look down. Shancai saw his mortal remains at the foot of the cliff.
Shancai fell down the cliff but was halted in midair by Guanyin, who now asked him to walk. Shancai found that he could walk normally and that he was no longer crippled. When he looked into a pool of water he also discovered that he now had a very handsome face. From that day forth, Guanyin taught Shancai the entire dharma.
In pain, Red Boy then pleaded for Guanyin to release him. In return, Guanyin told him to accept her rules of conduct. He agreed. She then shaved Red Boy's head into a Mount Tai tonsure. She then named him 'Shancai' (善財, 'lit. "Great Wealth"; or Shancai Tongzi ( 善財童子, lit. "Great Wealth Dragon Boy")) and asked if he would accept.
Her presence in Guanyin's iconography was influenced by tantric sutras celebrating the esoteric Amoghapāśa and Thousand-armed forms of Guanyin, which mention Longnü offering Guanyin a priceless pearl in gratitude for the latter visiting the Dragon King's palace at the bottom of the ocean to teach the inhabitants her salvific dharani.
In East Asian Buddhism, the Six Guanyin (Chinese 六觀音 (traditional) / 六观音 (), pinyin: Liù Guānyīn; Korean: 육관음, Yuk Gwaneum; Japanese: 六観音, Roku Kannon, Rokkannon; Vietnamese: Lục Quán Âm) is a grouping of six manifestations of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, known as Guanyin (Guanshiyin) in Chinese and Kannon (Kanzeon) in Japanese.
The Hall of Guanyin or Guanyin Hall (simplified Chinese: 观音阁; traditional Chinese: 觀音閣; pinyin: Guānyīngé or simplified Chinese: 观音殿; traditional Chinese: 觀音殿; pinyin: Guānyīndiàn) is the most important annex halls in Chinese Buddhist temples and mainly for enshrining Guanyin (Avalokiteśvara). [1]
In the Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra, she and Jintong seek enlightenment and are acolytes of Guanyin. In this context, Yunü is called Longnü, and Jintong is called Shancai Tongzi (Sudhana "Child of Wealth"). In the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, Yunü is a servant maid of the Jade Emperor in Heaven.
The Great Compassion Temple (大悲院) is divided into three halls: the Shanmen, the Hall of Thousand Armed and Eyed Guanyin, and the Reclining Buddha Hall. A wood carving statue of the Thousand Armed and Eyed Guanyin is enshrined in the middle of the hall and at the back of Guanyin's statue is a statue of Guan Yu.