Tieguanyin Organic

Tieguanyin is named for the Bodhisattva of Compassion to the Universe, Guanyin (Lotus Born One). Throughout the Asian world, she is represented as many names: Quan Yin, Avalokitesvara, Chenrezig, and Kannon and is similar in her attributes to Mother Mary in Christianity as a symbol of the truest and purest compassion. In China, the story of Tieguanyin says that in Fujian's Anxi County, there was a run-down temple which held an iron statue of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Every day on the walk to his tea fields, a poor farmer named Wei would pass by and reflect on the temple's worsening condition. “Something has to be done,” he thought. Being poor, Wei did not have the means to repair the temple. One day, he brought a broom and some incense from his home. He swept the temple clean and lit the incense as an offering to Guanyin. "It's the least I can do," he thought to himself. And he did this twice a month for many months. One night, Guanyin appeared to him in a dream, tellin