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branch, also representative of healing, in the other. The willow branch iconography can be traced to the complex sinicization of
Avalokiteshvara in relation to the developments in Chinese worship of the deity, as the attribute is not seen in Indian and Tibetan
depictions of the bodhisattva.

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