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Guan Yin, buddhist goddess of compassion and mercy, Keelung, Taiwan, originally uploaded by blather.

Guan Yin, buddhist goddess of compassion and mercy, Keelung, Taiwan

Guan Yin is the bodhisattva of compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists, usually as a female. She is also known as the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion. Photographed on a rainy night in Keelung. Just me and the cats sheltering outside a temple.

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Writer, photographer, environmental campaigner and "known troublemaker" Dave Walsh is the founder of Blather.net, described both as "possibly the most arrogant and depraved website to be found either side of the majestic Shannon River", and "the nicest website circulating in Ireland". Half Irishman, half-bicycle. He lives in southern Irish city of Barcelona.