🔆 Bodhisattvas and Their Associated Virtues 📍 Avalokiteśvara (Padmapani) ✅ Associated Virtue: Compassion and mercy ✅ Significance: Most revered Bodhisattva; embodies the infinite compassion of all Buddhas; widely worshipped in Tibet as Chenrezig and in China as Guanyin. 📍 Maitreya ✅ Associated Virtue: Loving-kindness and future Buddhahood ✅ Significance: The future Buddha who will appear on Earth to restore the Dharma; worshipped in both Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism. 📍 Mañjuśrī ✅ Associated Virtue: Wisdom ✅ Significance: Represents supreme wisdom and insight; often depicted with a sword that cuts through ignorance. 📍 Samantabhadra ✅ Associated Virtue: Practice and meditation ✅ Significance: Embodiment of Buddhist practice, vows, and virtues; often depicted in a trinity with Śākyamuni and Mañjuśrī. 📍 Kṣitigarbha ✅ Associated Virtue: Vows to save beings in hell realms ✅ Significance: Protector of souls in lower realms; associated with rescuing beings from suffering. 📍 Vajrapāṇi ✅ Associated Virtue: Power and protector of Buddhism ✅ Significance: The guardian of Buddha’s teachings and one of the oldest Bodhisattvas; symbolizes Buddha’s power. 📍 Tārā ✅ Associated Virtue: Protection and success ✅ Significance: Female Bodhisattva known for swift compassion and action; especially venerated in Tibetan Buddhism. 📍 Śākyamuni ✅ Associated Virtue: Enlightenment and teaching ✅ Significance: The historical Buddha (Gautama Buddha), who attained enlightenment and founded Buddhism, leading to the spread of the Dharma.