Definition
- **Thousand-Armed Flesh Buddha (千手肉佛)**: This is a direct, grotesque perversion of the Buddhist *Guanyin* (Avalokiteśvara), who is often depicted with a thousand arms as a symbol of limitless compassion. Here, that holy iconography is twisted into a horror of raw, parasitical flesh. The 'arms' are skinless and sprout from a corrupted form, a visual metaphor for the temple's worship of “the Flesh Buddha” from earlier chapters. - **The Power of Chanting**: In Buddhist tradition (and Daoist ritual), chanting sutras is a meritorious act that can purify, protect, and generate spiritual power. This chapter literalizes and weaponizes that concept: the monks’ chanting is a direct counter to the Wandering Lord’s hallucinatory, reality-bending ability. It “locks in” reality and forces the intangible into a physical form, showing how institutionalized, collective faith can dominate a powerful but disorganized entity like the Wandering Lord. - **Swastika (卍) on the Palm**: This is the ancient *manji* symbol, a traditional auspicious sign in Buddhism often found on the chest or palms of deities. Corrupting this symbol onto the palm of a flesh monster emphasizes the complete inversion of sacred imagery that defines the Dao-Twisted World.