Thousand Hand Guan Yin

Found this on one of my dancing forums. WOW, one of the most breath-taking performances I've seen in a long time. I was almost in tears!!! =)

This dance is called,

"Thousand Hand Guan Yin." The astonishing part of this is that the performers are all deaf, members of the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe. That being said, the choreography was an amazing achievement.
Guan Yin, short for Guan Shi Yin, is the bodhisattva of compassion, hallowed by Buddhists as the Goddess of Mercy. Guan means to observe, Shi means the world. Yin means sounds, specifically the sounds of those who suffer. Bodhisattva, when broken down, is as follows: Bodhi means wisdom, or enlightenment, sattva means being, or essence. So, in translation, a bodhisattva is a being who is enlightened and ready to transcend the cycles of birth and death, but chooses to return to the material world in order to help other people reach the same level of enlightenment. This is the ultimate demonstration of pure compassion. Many times, the bodhisattva is mistaken for being Guan Shi Yin, but a bodhisattva is a representation of Guan Yin's abilities, I suppose you could say.

There just aren't enough words to describe the beauty of it. The choreographer, Zhang Jigang, had the perfect description for the dance:

As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart
A thousand hands will naturally come to your aid
As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart
You will reach out with a thousand hands to help others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24SoPihLdq4

I couldn't get it onto my website, because the server won't allow me to place on a wmv file, so I researched it on YouTube, and what do you know, it was there. =)

Valete.