The Kuan-yin ching; a popular name for a chapter in the Lotus Sutra entitled Guanshiyin pusa pumen pin 观世音菩萨普门品 （'Chapter of the Universal Gate of Avalokite/svara Bodhisattva'）. The text states that Avalokite/svara is capable of manifesting himself in 33 different bodies according to the states of the beings to be saved.