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3. Avalokiteśvra:—is the most popular god of the Mahāyānis. He is famous as a Bodhisattva and is said to have emanated from the Dhyani, Amitābha and his Śakti, Pāṇḍarā. As his master, Amitabha is the presiding deity of the present Bhadrakalpa, Avalokiteśvara is assigned the work between the period of the disappearance, of the Mortal Buddha Śākyasiṃha and the advent of the future Buddha, Maitreya. He is famous for his unbounded and universal Karuṇā and has refused Nirvāṇa, till he sees all the sentient and insentient beings emancipated. This universal Karuṇā of this great Bodhisattvahas found a universal love for him among the Buddhists all over the world. He is characterised as the best of the Sangha, the Jewel of the Buddhist Church or Saṅgharatna.