Distressed (*) sailors especially revere this being, who in one origin story put out a fire in a monastery using only bare hands under the birth name Miao Shan, then took a name which means "contemplating the sounds of the world" and retired to Mount Putuo.
The voice of this being ends a bidding war over a crying fish which a servant was sent to go purchase in a Complete Tale of  [this being] set in the Southern Seas. In another story, this being transforms some trees to generate a bunch of illusory sword-wielding pirates, who run up a hill to test the devotion of a boy with a broken leg. A "dragon daughter" with her hands in her sleeves is one of the two servants often depicted flanking this being. Many depictions show this being with a jar of water in one hand and a willow branch in another. Distressed (*) sailors especially revere this being, who in one origin story put out a fire in a monastery using only bare hands under the birth name Miao Shan, then took a name which means "contemplating the sounds of the world" and retired to Mount Putuo. Red Boy becomes the servant of this white-robed divine being in the Ming novel Journey to the West. For 10 points, name this usually-female and sometimes thousand-armed Chinese analogue of the Sanskrit Avalokiteshvara, revered since the Tang dynasty as the bodhisattva of compassion.
The voice of this being ends a bidding war over a crying fish which a servant was sent to go purchase in a Complete Tale of  [this being] set in the Southern Seas.
Guan Yin [or Guanshiyin; prompt on "Avalokiteshvara"] 