Kṣitigarbha
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Kṣitigarbha (Sanskrit: क्षितिगर्भ, Chinese: 地藏; pinyin: Dìzàng; Japanese: 地蔵; rōmaji: Jizō; Korean: 지장 (地藏); romaja: Jijang; Vietnamese: Địa Tạng (地藏), Standard Tibetan: ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་ Wylie: sa yi snying po) is a bodhisattva. People worship him mostly in East Asia. Some people translate his name as "Earth Treasury", "Earth Store", "Earth Matrix", or "Earth Womb".
Kṣitigarbha promised to guide all beings in the six worlds during the time between the death of Gautama Buddha and the arrival of Maitreya. He also vowed not to become a Buddha until every hell was empty. Because of these vows, people see him as the bodhisattva who cares for those in hell, and in Japan he is also known as the protector of children and the guardian of children who have died or been aborted.
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