kannon in English
noun
most respected bodhisattva of compassion worshipped by East Asian Buddhists, goddess of mercy
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1. Boiel's, article ~Canonizing Kannon: The Ninth Century Esoteric Buddhist Altar at Kanshinji
2. In their liturgy, they used Maria Kannon, which was Mary disguised as a Buddhist bodhisattva in the form of a mother holding a child.
3. The chief of their village, Hajino Nakamoto, recognized the sanctity of the statue and enshrined it by remodeling his own house into a small temple in Asakusa so that the villagers could worship Kannon.