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Jizo

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Jizo
地蔵 ( Jpn)

The Bodhisattva Earth Repository ( Jizo-bosatsu) said to have been entrusted by Shakyamuni with the task of saving people during the period from Shakyamuni's Death until the enlightenment of Bodhisattva Maitreya.


Source

www.sgilibrary.org

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