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Sandy Boucher, celebrated author of Opening the Lotus and Turning the Wheel, now offers North American readers their first opportunity to share in Kwan Yins illuminating wisdom. Along with providing meditations, chants, and prayers this lovely, illustrated volume recounts the stories of this bodhisattva (one who delays her own full enlightenment to work for the liberation of all beings) and explains Kwan Yins role in Buddhism. Discovering Kwan Yin is sure to become an important spiritual touchstone for those who seek to celebrate the goddess in their lives, to give and receive the loving power of her presence.

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title:Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion
author:Boucher, Sandy.
publisher:Beacon Press
isbn10 | asin:0807013412
print isbn13:9780807013410
ebook isbn13:9780807013427
language:English
subjectAvalokitesvara (Buddhist deity)--Cult--United States, Women in Buddhism--United States.
publication date:1999
lcc:BQ4710.A84U623 1999eb
ddc:294.3/42114
subject:Avalokitesvara (Buddhist deity)--Cult--United States, Women in Buddhism--United States.
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Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion
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Also by Sandy Boucher:
Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism
Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism
Heartwomen: An Urban Feminist's Odyssey Home
The Notebooks of Leni Clare (Stories)
Assaults & Rituals (Stories)
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Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion
Sandy Boucher
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Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Beacon Press
25 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892
www.beacon.org
Beacon Press books
are published under the auspices of
the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
1999 by Sandy Boucher
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
04 03 02 01 00 8 7 6 5 4 3
This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the uncoated paper
ANSI/NISO specifications for permanence as revised in 1992.
Text design by Charles Nix
Text set in Rotis Serif
Composition by Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Boucher, Sandy.
Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist goddess of compassion /
Sandy Boucher.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8070-1340-4
ISBN 0-8070-1341-2 (pbk.)
1. Avalokitesvara (Buddhist deity)CultUnited States.
2. Women in BuddhismUnited States. I Title.
BQ4710.A84U623 1999
294.3'42114dc21 98-41118
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For Crystal
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Contents
One: Invitation
1
Two: A Thousand Hands
16
Picture 3
Kwan Yin in Men's Clothes
17
Picture 4
The Trial and Transformation of Thi Kinh
Picture 5
"Leaving Home"
21
Picture 6
Princess Miao Shan
Picture 7
Where She Lives
28
Picture 8
Kwan Yin and the Peacock
Picture 9
Familiar Energy
38
Picture 10
A Problematical Relationship
46
Picture 11
Kwan Yin in Burma
49
Picture 12
Oh Goddess, Give Us Strength to Cut Through
53
Three: She Carries Me
59
Picture 13
A Catholic Opens Her Heart
60
Picture 14
Rite of Passage
65

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Picture 15
The Essence of Kwan Yin
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Picture 16
Kwan Yin as Comforter and Healer
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