24, 2025, during a ceremony to send back a Buddhist statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva to Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasak. In 2023 ...
Because the temple houses a 22.28-metre statue of Avalokitesvara (Goddess of Mercy) with a thousand eyes and a thousand hands, it is also called Temple of the Great Goddess by the local people.