…has not departed from the world. He is always represented with a tyara, a crown of kingly rule, addressing himself to the world. Avalokiteshvara on the point of illumination heard the whole world cry out: if you leave us, we shall be, we shall have lost…

…to yourself. For instance, most of the buddhas had no historical existence at all nobody thinks they ever had. Avalokiteshvara, Kuan Yin Kuan an, the great bodhisattva of inexhaustible compassion, is a purely mythic figure but represents something, whereas…