Thailand's traditional dance...(1000 hands)...

Harmony, good deed and sacrifice in the name of love. The choreographer Zhang Jigang never fails to deliver these three messages, through his Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva dance. This dance is so popular not only for the Buddha story, whom people in China respect so highly. But also the grand and glorious choreography.

Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva tlls the legend of Bodhisattva Guan Yin, Goddess of Mercy who has 1000 hands. Bodhisattva Guan Yin, or commonly known as Guan Shi Yin, is a ‘Proto-Buddha’. She can’t descent into Buddha because of her mortal bonds. “I will not become a Budha if there’s still a single drop of tear in this world,” that’s how she determines...