Is there a bodhisattva that particularly helps animals?

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Is there a bodhisattva that particularly helps animals?

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I know Dizang Bodhisattva seeks to help all hell beings but what about in the animal realm?
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Bato Kannon [馬頭觀音]
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Meido wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:13 pm Bato Kannon [馬頭觀音]
I know of her and 狮子观音 but am unaware of the difference between the two.
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Meido wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:13 pm Bato Kannon [馬頭觀音]
Side note, Bato Kannon is identified with Hayagrīva, and of the six Kannons originally in the Mohezhiguan it is a different incarnation.

'The Fearless Lion-like Avalokiteśvara 師子無畏觀世音 destroys the three obstacles in the destiny of beasts. The king of beasts is majestic and fierce [and can thus face the untamed ferociousness of beasts] - therefore it is appropriate to apply fearlessness.'
(Clear Serenity, Quiet Insight, vol 1, p 341; T46n1911p15b4-5)
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?

2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.

4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.


1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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