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² The name is thus explained in the Kāraṇḍa-Vyūha itself, *Burnouf*, Introduction, p. 201 f. Other explanations of the name are also possible; see *La Vallée Poussin* ERE II, p. 256 f. *H. Zimmer*, ZII I, 1922, 73 ff., shows up the difficulties presented by all explanations of the name which have hitherto been suggested, but his own explanation: "The Master of Enlightenment, *i.e.*, he who has attained to perfect enlightenment, and yet does not become a Buddha, but remains a Bodhisattva until such time as all beings shall be released," is not at all convincing, for we ask ourselves in vain how *Avalokita* can possibly have the meaning of *samyaksambodhi*. On pictorial presentations of Avalokiteśvara, see *A. Foucher*, L'Iconographie Bouddhique de l'Inde, p. 97 ff. ; *Alice Getty*, The Gods of Northern Buddhism, Oxford, 1914, p. 54 ff.