pitier

With the Bhagavan Amitabbha comes the Bodhisattva Chenrazee, embodiment of mercy or compassion, the great pitier ever on the lookout to discover distress and to succour the troubled.

Whereas the Romantics focused on the pilgrim Dante, the pitier of poor suffering sinners, we post-Romantics would appear to be fascinated (and appalled) by the poet-narrator who disposes, godlike, of the souls of the damnable.