Kwan-HinКван-Хин

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«Кван-Хин» is Kwan-Yin (Guanyin), the bodhisattva of compassion in Chinese Buddhism, and the passage is the vow that English writers of Tolstoy's day printed as hers or as 'an ancient pledge': never to seek a private salvation, and to stay until every creature is delivered. No text with Tolstoy's three sentences was found. The shortest form, in Lucy Mallory's The World's Advance-Thought (November 1901), a journal Tolstoy read, is signed 'Buddhist Catechism' and has only the first clause and the universal redemption: 'Never will I seek or receive private, individual salvation, but forever and everywhere will I strive for the universal redemption of all creatures … throughout all worlds'; Tolstoy's «во всех мирах» (in all worlds) matches its last words. Notes on the Bhagavad-Gita (1918), later than the Circle, prints it as 'the following ancient pledge' with a further clause, 'never will I enter into final peace alone' (Tolstoy's «Не хочу получать успокоения один»). The last sentence, «До тех пор, пока все не будут освобождены, не покину мира греха, печали и борьбы» (until all are set free I will not leave the world of sin, sorrow, and struggle), was found in neither. The wording is an English formulation of the bodhisattva's vow; no Chinese or Sanskrit text in these words was found. The Jubilee name index calls «Кван-Хин» a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty and gives no source; nothing found supports it.

Searched: Conway's Sacred Anthology; Beal's Catena of Buddhist Scriptures (1871, its chapters on Kwan-yin); the saved issues of The World's Advance-Thought; Thoughts of Wise Men (1903) and the Jubilee commentary (vols. 40-42); Notes on the Bhagavad-Gita (Theosophy Company, 1918, archive.org); web searches for the English sentences ('never will I enter into final peace alone', 'never will I leave the world of sin, sorrow and struggle', 'universal redemption of every creature throughout all worlds').