Guanyin of Tangpu Village, Buddhist statue in Tangpu Village, China

Guanyin of Tangpu Village is a white statue, seemingly of stone or jade, with a jewel in its right hand and its left hand hanging down. It was found standing in the Rongjiang River in 2017 and is now enshrined in a small hall, the Guanyin Pavilion, beside a banyan tree in Tangpu Village, Jieyang.

The white Guanyin statue was brought from Taiwan in 1998 to the Shijing Buddhist Hall in Guanbu Town, Chaoyang District, Shantou, where it stood outdoors beside a lotus pond. In September 2013 Typhoon Usagi toppled a large coconut palm onto it, breaking fingers of its right hand and damaging a foot. On 26 January 2017 it drifted into the Rong River and on 2 February 2017 villagers of Tangpu found it standing upright in the water.

Villagers call the figure Guanyin of Tangpu after Tangpu Village in Yuhu, Jieyang, where it was found in the Rong River on 2 February 2017. It is honoured beside the banyan tree where it came ashore, and a small hall, the Tangpu Guanyin Pavilion, was built for it; its couplet mentions the phoenix and the lotus.

The statue stands beside the banyan tree at the spot on the Rongjiang bank in Tangpu Village where villagers found it in February 2017. Five signs reading "To Tangpu Guanyin Bodhisattva" stand in the surrounding area, though two have since been removed. Visitors are expected to dress modestly, follow staff instructions, and not touch or climb the statue.

The statue drifted down the Rongjiang and was found on 2 February 2017 standing upright in the water, neither sinking nor toppling, with only the fingers of its right hand and a foot damaged. Villagers took this as a sign of the bodhisattva's power; boats hauled it ashore and it was placed under a banyan tree.