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@farah@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

On a related note: I really need to find some Buddhist texts in Bengali. I couldn’t find much last night. Whatever little I got - I finally understood the origin of the name of Avalokiteshvara and it’s very enlightening (har har) #Buddhism

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@PKYo@kind.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@farah

This same Bodhisattva has different names and different genders, from Northern India where he's called Avalokiteśvara through Nepal and Tibet and China, where she's called Guanyin.

Buddhism had Trans covered, over a millennium ago, in many ways, of which this is just one.

#Trans #Buddhism

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