Avalokiteshvara is the most popular name in Bodhisattva, the “Merciful Lord Who Looks on Humanity Filled with Compassion”. He has many names and appearances. The number of heads he has varies from two to eleven, the numbers of arms from two to one thousand. Avalokitesvara was in fact the representative bodhissattva of the "Buddha of Light", the "Buddha of Infinite Life", in the paradise into which all hope to be reborn.