Scholarly Name Reference
also written Avalokiteshvara
'Lord who looks down in compassion' (avalokita 'beheld, looked down upon' + īśvara 'lord'), the bodhisattva of compassion, source-form of Guānyīn and Kannon.
Scholarly reference for Avalokiteśvara
अवलोकितेश्वर
The name in its original Devanagari form. अवलोकितेश्वर → Avalokiteśvara. Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara is written in Devanagari as अवलोकितेश्वर · IAST transliteration maps each Devanagari vowel and consonant to a Latin equivalent · Macrons mark long vowels (ā, ī, ū); dots beneath consonants mark retroflex articulation (ṭ, ḍ, ṇ, ṣ)
AVALOKITESHVARA
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Avalokiteśvara
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
avalokiteśvara.com → xn--avalokitevara-4rc.com
The non-ASCII characters in Avalokiteśvara are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Avalokiteśvara. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How avalokiteshvara becomes Avalokiteśvara
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | v | → | v | Same | Same |
| 03 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 04 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 05 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
| 06 | k | → | k | Same | Same |
| 07 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 08 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 09 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 10 | s | → | ś | Special | Ś: palatal sibilant, atomic letter (IAST ś) |
| 11 | h | → | Drop | Not written: sh digraph realized as single letter ś | |
| 12 | v | → | v | Same | Same |
| 13 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 14 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 15 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Avalokiteśvara is classified as Tier-1
The Buddhist restoration अवलोकितेश्वर preserves at least one distinctive feature its ASCII form loses — a diacritic or a distinctive letter that marks the original phonology. This makes it a single-tier Tier-1 name.
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