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  Phra Mae Kwan Im

 

Thailand

Kuan Yin, the Chinese goddess of mercy, who in Thai is referred to as Phra Mae Kwan Im. The boy on her side is Shan Cai, a disabled boy who was given a new, healthy and handsome body, by jumping of a cliff after the goddess, leaving his disabled body in the ravine and afterward becoming her acolyte.

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