Pusa Video

I've been surfing around on youtube.com's site because there are a number of China adoption videos on there. While I was searching through the site I found another interesting clip I wanted to share with you. This is a video of the China Disabled Person's Performing Art Troupe presenting a modern Thousand-hand Guanyin, or Goddess of Mercy dance. All the dancers are deaf. The laser light show backdrop gives it a bit of that odd "asian-disco" feel, but it's still very beautiful with a hypnotic, other-worldly quality to it. This performance troupe is a branch of the China Disabled Persons' Federation. I was not familiar with this organization before, but am very interested in it now.
If you have followed this blog you probably know I am very fond of Guanyin Pusa. Pusa, is Chinese for "bodhisattva", a soul who, through compassion and altruism, has earned the right to leave this world of suffering and enter nirvana, but has chosen instead to stay on Earth to instruct others to until all beings are enlightened.
Hui-Hui really loved watching this video. He moves his hands in patterns like the dancers. While watching it he also spontaneously started a gesture we call "pray to Buddha". This consists of him putting his hands together and raising them up and down while "singing". He has done this since we got him in China. Ben's the one who named it and was able to get Hui-Hui to do it by simply saying, "Pray to Buddha."
I would like to find other videos of this performance company. From the pictures on their website it looks like they do some amazing things.



(Oh, if you're one of my workmates trying to watch this at Premier, our web filter blocks the "You Tube" site so you'll have to watch it at home... sorry!)