In one story, Lü Dongbin helps a merchant throw silver at one of these people whose hair turns into a white serpent. Longnü later becomes the keeper of the Pearl of Light after one of these people buys a carp in a net during a bidding war. Bhrikuti and Tara were miraculously born from the white and green tears shed by one of these people. In a story recorded by Lafcadio Hearn, children stacking stones along the Sanzu river hide from oni beneath the robes of one of these people named Kṣitigarbha(k'shih-tee-GAR-bah). Tang Sanzang controls Sun Wukong with a headband given to him by one of these people in Journey to the West. After being executed by her father, the princess Miaoshan (MEE-ow-SHAHN) transforms into one of these people with a thousand arms, the merciful avatar Guanyin (WON-yin). For 10 points, name these people who delay nirvana to help others in Mahayana Buddhism. ■END■
ANSWER: bodhisattvas [prompt on Buddhist gods or goddesses; prompt on monks; reject "Buddhas"]
<Sean Farrell , Mythology - East Asia>
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