觀音經 The Kuan-yin ching; a popular name for a chapter in the Lotus Sutra entitled Guanshiyin pusa pumen pin 觀世音菩薩普門品 ('Chapter of the Universal Gate of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva'). The text states that Avalokiteśvara is capable of manifesting himself in 33 different bodies according to the states of the beings to be saved.
觀音經===(經名)法華經卷第八觀世音菩薩普門品第二十五一品別行者,稱為觀音經。法華傳記一曰:「唯有什公普門品,於西海而別行。所以者何?曇摩羅懺,此云法豐,中印人,婆羅門種,亦稱伊波勒菩薩。弘化為志,遊化蔥嶺,來至河西。河西王沮渠蒙,歸命正法,兼有疾患,以語菩薩。即云:觀世音此土有緣,乃令誦念,病苦即除。因是別傳一品,流通部外也。」案河西沮渠蒙遜與姚秦並立為王,是本經譯出(姚秦弘始八年羅什翻譯),不久即別行也。各家疏註如下:觀音玄義二卷,隋智顗說,灌頂記。觀音玄義記四卷,宋知禮述記。觀音義疏二卷,隋智顗說,灌頂記。觀音義疏記四卷,宋知禮記。觀音經玄義記會本科一卷,觀音經玄義記會本四卷,隋智顗說,宋知禮述,日本實乘分會。觀音經義疏記會本科文一卷,觀音經義疏高會本四卷,隋智顗說,宋知禮述,日本實乘分會。釋普門品重頌一卷,宋遵式述。觀世音菩薩普門品膚說一卷,靈耀說。觀世音經箋注,丁福保註。觀音經持驗記二卷,周克復集。
avalokanā-sūtra, samanta-mukha-parivarto nāmāvalokiteśvara-vikurvaṇa-nirdeśaḥ.