A Superb Bodhisattva Buddha figure of Simhanada Avalokiteshvara, Guanyin bronze statue. As the nature of all Buddha, Bodhisattva figure of Guanyin royal ease seating, with resplendent, serene face, peaceful, smiling and youthful, beautiful and youthful, he has one face and two hands. With cold bronze serene face, three peaceful eyes, the face slightly smiling, giving peaceful appearance, body painted naturally over fine bronze. Adorned with flowing silks of various garments and jewel ornaments, tiara, brahmin string necklace, beneath the ornate headdress before the ushnisha, and the like. Clad in diaphanous-sanghati, with ornate jewelries and pendants over the chest. The right hand is in the gesture of giving generosity raised and rested above the right knee. The palm of the left hand is supported on the moon seat, pressed down on the seat beside the left thigh, holding the stem of a red lotus. The legs are in royal ease position, with the right knee raised, and left leg drawn in. Relaxing seated upon a round double lotus throne, above scrolling ruyi supported tall slight small round platform pedestal. This statue appears to be the perfect example, by any artistic tradition, both for technical precision and exquisite form. The Amazing condition with a natural patina giving this piece an unforgettable appearance.The underside with incised Quadra-petal flori-form visvavajra mark and centralized DaiJiMeasurements: Height: 18-1/4" Width: 12-3/4"Lot Notes:Guanyin occupies a unique place in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon. Buddhist sutras speak of several bodhisattvas but it is Avalokiteshvara/Guanyin who is revered and adored by followers of both Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism and by all art lovers. He/she has acquired a status equal to the Buddha and sometimes his importance surpasses even the Buddha's. The Westerners know the deity as the Chinese goddess of love and compassion. If Buddhism has been the greatest contribution of India to world religions, the transformation of Indian Avalokiteshvara to Guanyin The Goddess of Mercy -is the creation and contribution of China to the Buddhist world. Despite three major setbacks suffered by Buddhism in Chinese history, the symbol of Guanyin, the goddess of mercy however had continued to prosper and flourish and has rightly been called the "cult of half Asia". Avalokiteshvara who is a male Bodhisattva in India was transformed into a goddess in a Chinese male oriented society. A preliminary statement can be made here, that Sinicization of Buddhism led to the creation of the Goddess of mercy with Chinese characteristics from a male deity with Indian characteristics. This transformation of a male deity from India into a female Goddess of mercy in a strongly patriarchal Chinese society both at the terrestrial and celestial levels has surprised many. Celestial because for any woman to gain entrance into the Paradise of Amitabha, she should shed her female form and assume a male form. For a female divinity to have grown in the terrestrial level in a male dominated society, and to have given rise to a cult is equally strange. It is not that there were no goddesses prior to the introduction of Buddhism in China.