Mary?
15 05 2008
The statue certainly looks a lot like her but it`s not. I came across it while sightseeing several years ago and took the photo myself on the grounds of a Buddhist temple. She is Kannon and more about this Buddhist deity can be read on the following wikipedia pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guan_Yin#Guanyin_and_the_Virgin_Mary
