Reeves, Gene. “Kuan-yin.” Dharma World 33 (July/Sept. 2006): 34-9.

Abstract 

The name of the most popular of all the Buddhist bodhisattvas can be translated as "Regarder of the Cries of the World." Associated with both wisdom and compassion, this bodhisattva has many different protrayal and manifestations, both male and female.