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  • The gates, which are 20 metres in height, are decorated on either side of the passageway with stone elephant trunks and crowned by four gargantuan faces of the bodhisatva Avalokitesvara.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • It's not a "bodhisatva in dog form," people, it's a dog.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • distilled - a graceful circle with fine, ornate detail work and red - red - red paint a bodhisatva smile sleepy eyes looking down and away, and away

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • distilled - a graceful circle with fine, ornate detail work and red - red - red paint a bodhisatva smile sleepy eyes looking down and away, and away

    mandala and a moving car 2008

  • I’d like to know more about Jizo–I don’t know enough about Buddhism to understand the nature of a bodhisatva.

    | Mind on Fire 2006

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