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			[[File:Kwan Yin.jpg\|right\|180px\|thumb\|Wood carving of Kwan Yin, Northern Sung dynasty, China, c. 1025]]
	'''Kwan-Yin''' (Chinese: 觀音, Guānyīn) is the female bodhisattva of compassion venerated by East Asian [[Buddhism\|Buddhists]]. Another later name for this bodhisattva is [[Kwan-Shi-Yin]] (Guānshìyīn). It is generally accepted that Kwan-Yin is a Chinese version of the male [[Mahāyāna]] bodhisattva [[Avalokiteśvara]].		'''Kwan-Yin''' (Chinese: 觀音, Guānyīn) is the female bodhisattva of compassion venerated by East Asian [[Buddhism\|Buddhists]]. Another later name for this bodhisattva is [[Kwan-Shi-Yin]] (Guānshìyīn). It is generally accepted that Kwan-Yin is a Chinese version of the male [[Mahāyāna]] bodhisattva [[Avalokiteśvara]].

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	===Articles===		===Articles===
	*[~~http~~://www.theosophy.ph/~~encyclo~~/~~index.php?title=Kwan_Yin#~~ Kwan Yin] ~~at Theosopedia~~		*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/kwan-yin Kwan Yin] in Theosophy World
	*[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/the-orthography-of-kwan-yin-tien/ The Orthography of Kwan-Yin-Tien] by Ingmar de Boer		*[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/the-orthography-of-kwan-yin-tien/ The Orthography of Kwan-Yin-Tien] by Ingmar de Boer

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	[[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] relates Kwan-Yin to the [[Sixth Principle\|sixth principle]], either in cosmos or man:		In one of her writings, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|H. P. Blavatsky]] defines Kwan-Yin as "the divine Voice of the Self . . . [which] was heard but in the sacred solitude of the preparatory [[Mystery Schools\|mysteries]]."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. VI (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1989), 99.</ref> [[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] relates Kwan-Yin to the [[Sixth Principle\|sixth principle]], either in cosmos or man:

	<blockquote><u>Kwan-yin</u>, or <u>Buddhi</u> the Spiritual Soul (the sixth Pr.) and the vehicle of its "Lord." It is Kwan-yin that is the female principle or the manifested passive, manifesting itself "to every creature in the universe, in order to deliver all men from the consequences of sin" — as rendered by Beal, this once quite correctly.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 111 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 377.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote><u>Kwan-yin</u>, or <u>Buddhi</u> the Spiritual Soul (the sixth Pr.) and the vehicle of its "Lord." It is Kwan-yin that is the female principle or the manifested passive, manifesting itself "to every creature in the universe, in order to deliver all men from the consequences of sin" — as rendered by Beal, this once quite correctly.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 111 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 377.</ref></blockquote>

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	'''Kwan-Yin''' (Chinese: 觀音, Guānyīn) is the female bodhisattva of compassion venerated by East Asian [[Buddhism\|Buddhists]]. Another later name for this bodhisattva is [[Kwan-Shi-Yin]] (Guānshìyīn). It is generally accepted that Kwan-Yin is a Chinese version of the male [[Mahāyāna]] bodhisattva [[Avalokiteśvara]].		'''Kwan-Yin''' (Chinese: 觀音, Guānyīn) is the female bodhisattva of compassion venerated by East Asian [[Buddhism\|Buddhists]]. Another later name for this bodhisattva is [[Kwan-Shi-Yin]] (Guānshìyīn). It is generally accepted that Kwan-Yin is a Chinese version of the male [[Mahāyāna]] bodhisattva [[Avalokiteśvara]].

			In the Theosophical literature Kwan-Yin is regarded as the female [[Sixth Principle\|sixth principle]] (either in cosmos or man) while Kwan-Shi-Yin is not regarded as a synonym of the former but as the male aspect of this principle.

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	[[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza VI\|Stanza VI.1]] defines ~~Kwan-Yin~~ as "The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge" that resides in "Kwan-Yin-Tien".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 136.</ref></blockquote> In her commentaries to the sloka, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] identifies Kwan-Yin to the [[Logos#Female Logos\|female Logoi]]:		[[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] relates Kwan-Yin to the [[Sixth Principle\|sixth principle]], either in cosmos or man:

			<blockquote><u>Kwan-yin</u>, or <u>Buddhi</u> the Spiritual Soul (the sixth Pr.) and the vehicle of its "Lord." It is Kwan-yin that is the female principle or the manifested passive, manifesting itself "to every creature in the universe, in order to deliver all men from the consequences of sin" — as rendered by Beal, this once quite correctly.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 111 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 377.</ref></blockquote>

			[[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza VI\|Stanza VI.1]] defines her as "The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge" that resides in "Kwan-Yin-Tien".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 136.</ref></blockquote> In her commentaries to the sloka, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] identifies Kwan-Yin to the [[Logos#Female Logos\|female Logoi]]:

	<blockquote>Kwan-Yin-Tien means the “melodious heaven of Sound,” the abode of Kwan-Yin, or the “Divine Voice” literally. This “Voice” is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: “Speech,” as the expression of thought. Thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol, the “daughter of the Divine Voice,” or Verbum, or the male and female Logos, the “Heavenly Man” or Adam Kadmon, who is at the same time Sephira. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vâch, the goddess of Speech, or of the Word. For Vâch—the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of Brahmâ, one “generated by the gods”—is, in company with Kwan-Yin, with Isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses, the female Logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in Nature, the Word, Voice or Sound, and Speech.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Kwan-Yin-Tien means the “melodious heaven of Sound,” the abode of Kwan-Yin, or the “Divine Voice” literally. This “Voice” is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: “Speech,” as the expression of thought. Thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol, the “daughter of the Divine Voice,” or Verbum, or the male and female Logos, the “Heavenly Man” or Adam Kadmon, who is at the same time Sephira. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vâch, the goddess of Speech, or of the Word. For Vâch—the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of Brahmâ, one “generated by the gods”—is, in company with Kwan-Yin, with Isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses, the female Logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in Nature, the Word, Voice or Sound, and Speech.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>
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	<blockquote>Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence. They are the “Christos-Sophia” of the mystic Gnostics—the Logos and its Sakti.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence. They are the “Christos-Sophia” of the mystic Gnostics—the Logos and its Sakti.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>

	~~<blockquote>A great mistake is~~ also ~~made by Beal who says: "this name (Avalokiteswara) in Chinese took the form of~~ Kwan-~~Shai~~-yin, and the divinity worshipped under that name (was) generally regarded as a female." <u>Kwan-shai-yin</u> — or the universally manifested voice "is active — male; and must not be confounded with <u>Kwan-vin</u>, or <u>Buddhi</u> the Spiritual Soul (the sixth Pr.) and the vehicle of its "Lord." It is Kwan-yin that is the female principle or the manifested passive, manifesting itself "to every creature in the universe, in order to deliver all men from the consequences of sin" — as rendered by Beal, this once quite correctly (383), while Kwan-shai-vin, the "Son identical with his Father" is the <u>absolute activity</u>, hence — having no direct relation to objects of sense <u>is</u> — <u>Passivity</u>.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 111 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 377.</ref></blockquote>		== See also ==
			*[[Kwan-Shi-Yin]]
			*[[Avalokiteśvara]]

	==Online resources==		==Online resources==

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	<blockquote>Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence. They are the “Christos-Sophia” of the mystic Gnostics—the Logos and its Sakti.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence. They are the “Christos-Sophia” of the mystic Gnostics—the Logos and its Sakti.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>

			<blockquote>A great mistake is also made by Beal who says: "this name (Avalokiteswara) in Chinese took the form of Kwan-Shai-yin, and the divinity worshipped under that name (was) generally regarded as a female." <u>Kwan-shai-yin</u> — or the universally manifested voice "is active — male; and must not be confounded with <u>Kwan-vin</u>, or <u>Buddhi</u> the Spiritual Soul (the sixth Pr.) and the vehicle of its "Lord." It is Kwan-yin that is the female principle or the manifested passive, manifesting itself "to every creature in the universe, in order to deliver all men from the consequences of sin" — as rendered by Beal, this once quite correctly (383), while Kwan-shai-vin, the "Son identical with his Father" is the <u>absolute activity</u>, hence — having no direct relation to objects of sense <u>is</u> — <u>Passivity</u>.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 111 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 377.</ref></blockquote>

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	<blockquote>Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence. They are the “Christos-Sophia” of the mystic Gnostics—the Logos and its Sakti.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence. They are the “Christos-Sophia” of the mystic Gnostics—the Logos and its Sakti.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>

			==Online resources==
			===Articles===
			*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Kwan_Yin# Kwan Yin] at Theosopedia
			*[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/the-orthography-of-kwan-yin-tien/ The Orthography of Kwan-Yin-Tien] by Ingmar de Boer

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

	<references/>		<references/>

	~~==Further reading==~~

	*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Kwan_Yin# Kwan Yin] at Theosopedia


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	<blockquote>Kwan-Yin-Tien means the “melodious heaven of Sound,” the abode of Kwan-Yin, or the “Divine Voice” literally. This “Voice” is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: “Speech,” as the expression of thought. Thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol, the “daughter of the Divine Voice,” or Verbum, or the male and female Logos, the “Heavenly Man” or Adam Kadmon, who is at the same time Sephira. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vâch, the goddess of Speech, or of the Word. For Vâch—the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of Brahmâ, one “generated by the gods”—is, in company with Kwan-Yin, with Isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses, the female Logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in Nature, the Word, Voice or Sound, and Speech.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Kwan-Yin-Tien means the “melodious heaven of Sound,” the abode of Kwan-Yin, or the “Divine Voice” literally. This “Voice” is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: “Speech,” as the expression of thought. Thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol, the “daughter of the Divine Voice,” or Verbum, or the male and female Logos, the “Heavenly Man” or Adam Kadmon, who is at the same time Sephira. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vâch, the goddess of Speech, or of the Word. For Vâch—the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of Brahmâ, one “generated by the gods”—is, in company with Kwan-Yin, with Isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses, the female Logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in Nature, the Word, Voice or Sound, and Speech.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>

			In the same sloka Kwan-Yin is said to be triple, as is every female logos:

			<blockquote>The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge is called “the triple” of Kwan-Shai-Yin because in her correlations, metaphysical and cosmical, she is the “Mother, the Wife and the Daughter” of the Logos.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 136.</ref></blockquote>

	A related term is that of [[Kwan-Shi-Yin]]. Although traditional Chinese Buddhism regards the latter as a synonymous of Kwan-Yin, Mme. Blavatsky and the [[Mahatmas]] maintained that these are two different entities.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 471.</ref></blockquote>		A related term is that of [[Kwan-Shi-Yin]]. Although traditional Chinese Buddhism regards the latter as a synonymous of Kwan-Yin, Mme. Blavatsky and the [[Mahatmas]] maintained that these are two different entities.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 471.</ref></blockquote>

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	[[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza VI\|Stanza VI.1]] defines Kwan-Yin as "The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge" that resides in "Kwan-Yin-Tien".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 136.</ref></blockquote> In her commentaries to the sloka, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] identifies Kwan-Yin to the [[Logos#Female Logos\|female ~~Logos]] being parallel to the [[Hinduism\|Hindu]] [[Vāc~~]]:		[[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza VI\|Stanza VI.1]] defines Kwan-Yin as "The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge" that resides in "Kwan-Yin-Tien".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 136.</ref></blockquote> In her commentaries to the sloka, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] identifies Kwan-Yin to the [[Logos#Female Logos\|female Logoi]]:

	<blockquote>Kwan-Yin-Tien means the “melodious heaven of Sound,” the abode of Kwan-Yin, or the “Divine Voice” literally. This “Voice” is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: “Speech,” as the expression of thought. Thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol, the “daughter of the Divine Voice,” or Verbum, or the male and female Logos, the “Heavenly Man” or Adam Kadmon, who is at the same time Sephira. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vâch, the goddess of Speech, or of the Word. For Vâch—the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of Brahmâ, one “generated by the gods”—is, in company with Kwan-Yin, with Isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses, the female Logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in Nature, the Word, Voice or Sound, and Speech.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Kwan-Yin-Tien means the “melodious heaven of Sound,” the abode of Kwan-Yin, or the “Divine Voice” literally. This “Voice” is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: “Speech,” as the expression of thought. Thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol, the “daughter of the Divine Voice,” or Verbum, or the male and female Logos, the “Heavenly Man” or Adam Kadmon, who is at the same time Sephira. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vâch, the goddess of Speech, or of the Word. For Vâch—the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of Brahmâ, one “generated by the gods”—is, in company with Kwan-Yin, with Isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses, the female Logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in Nature, the Word, Voice or Sound, and Speech.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>

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	[[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza VI\|Stanza VI.1]] defines Kwan-Yin as "The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge" that resides in "Kwan-Yin-Tien".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 136.</ref></blockquote> In her commentaries to the sloka, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] ~~relates~~ Kwan-Yin to the [[Hinduism\|Hindu]] [[Vāc]]:		[[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza VI\|Stanza VI.1]] defines Kwan-Yin as "The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge" that resides in "Kwan-Yin-Tien".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 136.</ref></blockquote> In her commentaries to the sloka, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] identifies Kwan-Yin to the [[Logos#Female Logos\|female Logos]] being parallel to the [[Hinduism\|Hindu]] [[Vāc]]:

	<blockquote>Kwan-Yin-Tien means the “melodious heaven of Sound,” the abode of Kwan-Yin, or the “Divine Voice” literally. This “Voice” is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: “Speech,” as the expression of thought. Thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol, the “daughter of the Divine Voice,” or Verbum, or the male and female Logos, the “Heavenly Man” or Adam Kadmon, who is at the same time Sephira. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vâch, the goddess of Speech, or of the Word. For Vâch—the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of Brahmâ, one “generated by the gods”—is, in company with Kwan-Yin, with Isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses, the female Logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in Nature, the Word, Voice or Sound, and Speech.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Kwan-Yin-Tien means the “melodious heaven of Sound,” the abode of Kwan-Yin, or the “Divine Voice” literally. This “Voice” is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: “Speech,” as the expression of thought. Thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol, the “daughter of the Divine Voice,” or Verbum, or the male and female Logos, the “Heavenly Man” or Adam Kadmon, who is at the same time Sephira. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vâch, the goddess of Speech, or of the Word. For Vâch—the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of Brahmâ, one “generated by the gods”—is, in company with Kwan-Yin, with Isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses, the female Logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in Nature, the Word, Voice or Sound, and Speech.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>

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	[[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza VI\|Stanza VI.1]] defines Kwan-Yin as "The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 136.</ref></blockquote> In her commentaries to the sloka [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] relates Kwan-Yin to the [[Hinduism\|Hindu]] [[Vāc]].		[[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza VI\|Stanza VI.1]] defines Kwan-Yin as "The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge" that resides in "Kwan-Yin-Tien".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 136.</ref></blockquote> In her commentaries to the sloka, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] relates Kwan-Yin to the [[Hinduism\|Hindu]] [[Vāc]]:

	~~===~~ Kwan-Yin and Kwan~~-Shi~~-Yin ~~===~~		<blockquote>Kwan-Yin-Tien means the “melodious heaven of Sound,” the abode of Kwan-Yin, or the “Divine Voice” literally. This “Voice” is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: “Speech,” as the expression of thought. Thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol, the “daughter of the Divine Voice,” or Verbum, or the male and female Logos, the “Heavenly Man” or Adam Kadmon, who is at the same time Sephira. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vâch, the goddess of Speech, or of the Word. For Vâch—the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of Brahmâ, one “generated by the gods”—is, in company with Kwan-Yin, with Isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses, the female Logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in Nature, the Word, Voice or Sound, and Speech.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>

	~~Mme. Blavatsky and the [[Mahatmas]] maintained~~ that ~~Kwan-Yin and~~ [[Kwan-Shi-Yin]] ~~are two different entities~~, and ~~that it is~~ the ~~latter who is~~ [[~~Avalokiteśvara~~]].<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 471.</ref></blockquote>		A related term is that of [[Kwan-Shi-Yin]]. Although traditional Chinese Buddhism regards the latter as a synonymous of Kwan-Yin, Mme. Blavatsky and the [[Mahatmas]] maintained that these are two different entities.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 471.</ref></blockquote>

	<blockquote>Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence. They are the “Christos-Sophia” of the mystic Gnostics—the Logos and its Sakti.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence. They are the “Christos-Sophia” of the mystic Gnostics—the Logos and its Sakti.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 473.</ref></blockquote>

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	'''Kwan-Yin''' (Chinese: 觀音, Guānyīn) is the female bodhisattva of compassion venerated by East Asian [[Buddhism\|Buddhists]]. Another later name for this bodhisattva is Kwan-Shi-Yin (Guānshìyīn). It is generally accepted that Kwan-Yin is a Chinese version of the male [[Mahāyāna]] bodhisattva [[Avalokiteśvara]].		'''Kwan-Yin''' (Chinese: 觀音, Guānyīn) is the female bodhisattva of compassion venerated by East Asian [[Buddhism\|Buddhists]]. Another later name for this bodhisattva is [[Kwan-Shi-Yin]] (Guānshìyīn). It is generally accepted that Kwan-Yin is a Chinese version of the male [[Mahāyāna]] bodhisattva [[Avalokiteśvara]].

	== In Chinese Buddhism ==		== In Chinese Buddhism ==