[Buddha-l] Is Guanyin Catholic?

[jkirk]

Explain please what you mean by 
"taking him through a series of sexual gender assignment "surgeries."
What do these statues or paintings show? A Guanyin with a mustache perhaps?
Thanks.
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From: <Baopiguy at comcast.net>

> 
> Correct, but Kwan-Yin is perhaps THE leading Boddhisattva, having 
> originally been Avalokiteshvara, one of Sakyamuni's erstwhile closest 
> disciples. It's fun to go to major museums, esp. in China and Taiwan 
> and see the statues and paintings taking him through a series of 
> sexual gender assignment "surgeries."