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Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion by Sandy Boucher Pdf
Sandy Boucher, celebrated author of Opening the Lotus and Turning the Wheel, now offers North American readers their first opportunity to share in Kwan Yin's 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 Yin's 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.
By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of the Common Era. While he was closely identified with the royalty in South and Southeast Asia, and the Tibetans continue to this day to view the Dalai Lamas as his incarnations, in China he became a she—Kuan-yin, the "Goddess of Mercy"—and has a very different history. The causes and processes of this metamorphosis have perplexed Buddhist scholars for centuries. In this groundbreaking, comprehensive study, Chün-fang Yü discusses this dramatic transformation of the (male) Indian bodhisattva Avalokitesvara into the (female) Chinese Kuan-yin—from a relatively minor figure in the Buddha's retinue to a universal savior and one of the most popular deities in Chinese religion. Focusing on the various media through which the feminine Kuan-yin became constructed and domesticated in China, Yü thoroughly examines Buddhist scriptures, miracle stories, pilgrimages, popular literature, and monastic and local gazetteers—as well as the changing iconography reflected in Kuan-yin's images and artistic representations—to determine the role this material played in this amazing transformation. The book eloquently depicts the domestication of Kuan-yin as a case study of the indigenization of Buddhism in China and illuminates the ways this beloved deity has affected the lives of all Chinese people down the ages.
Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion by Sandy Boucher Pdf
Sandy Boucher, celebrated author of Opening the Lotus and Turning the Wheel, now offers North American readers their first opportunity to share in Kwan Yin's 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 Yin's 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.
Spirituality & Practice "Best Books of 2021" Award Winner Bank Street College of Education "The Best Children’s Books of the Year" Moonbeams Children’s Book Awards "Best Illustrator" Silver Winner Two sisters discover the power of love and the true meaning of compassion in this princess-adventure story based on an ancient Chinese tale. Miao Shan isn't your typical princess. She likes to spend her time quietly meditating with the creatures of the forest or having adventures with dragons and tigers. Miao Shan's heart is so full of love that her dream is to spread happiness throughout the land and help people endlessly. But her father has other plans for her--he intends to have her married and remain in the palace. With the help of her little sister Ling, Miao Shan escapes and begins her journey to discover the true meaning of compassion. During their adventure, Ling and Miao Shan are eventually separated. Ling must overcome doubts, fears, and loneliness in order to realize what her sister had told her all along--that love is the greatest power in the world. After the sisters' reunion, Miao Shan realizes her true calling as Kuan Yin, the goddess of compassion. A princess-adventure story like none other, this ancient Chinese tale of the world's most beloved Buddhist hero is a story of sisterhood, strength, and following your own path.
In his long career as a poet, Buddhist teacher, spiritual advisor, and writer, Stephen Levine has changed our understanding of death and dying. In Becoming Kuan Yin, Levine’s first new book in many years, he turns to the legend of Kuan Yin, the Bbodhistitva venerated by East Asian Buddhists for her compassion. In Becoming Kuan Yin, Levine shares the tale of Miao Shan, born centuries ago to a cruel king who wanted her to marry a wealthy but uncaring man. This is the story of how Miao Shan refused to follow the path her father had in mind and, instead, became Kuan Yin, the first acknowledged female Buddha who watches over the dying and those who work with them. Levine weaves together story and practice and helps readers discover their own infinite capacity for mercy and compassion under difficult circumstances. This book will have resonance for Kuan Yin's millions of followers.
She is the embodiment of selfless love, the supreme symbol of radical compassion, and, for more than a millennium throughout Asia, she has been revered as “The One Who Hearkens to the Cries of the World.” Kuan Yin is both a Buddhist symbol and a beloved deity of Chinese folk religion. John Blofeld’s classic study traces the history of this most famous of all the bodhisattvas from her origins in India (as the male figure Avalokiteshvara) to Tibet, China, and beyond, along the way highlighting her close connection to other figures such as Tara and Amitabha. The account is full of charming stories of Blofeld’s encounters with Kuan Yin’s devotees during his journeys in China. The book also contains meditation and visualization techniques associated with the Bodhisattva of Compassion, and translations of poems and yogic texts devoted to her.
Yu presents a groundbreaking, comprehensive study of one of the most popular and important "deities" in the Buddhist pantheon--one who changed gender as he/she was imported into China from India. Yu explores this dramatic transformation of the (male) Indian bodhisattva Avalokitesvara into the (female) Chinese Kuan-yin--from a relatively minor figure in the Buddha's retinue to a universal savior and one of the most popular deities in Chinese religion.
The Promise of Kuan Yin by Martin Palmer,Ray Ramsay Pdf
The best and most comprehensive book on the most important and best-loved Chinese goddess. Walk down the streets of Chinatown in any American or western European city and look around. She is there. Walk through the downtown streets, look in a shop window. She is there. Go to any city in China and open your eyes. She is there, too. Kuan Yin is the most ubiquitous Chinese deity—and the most loved. She is the living expression of compassion whose gentle face and elegant figure form the center of devotion in most Chinese homes and workplaces. Until relatively recently, she was barely known in the West, and few studies had been made of her. Originally published as Kuan Yin by Harper Collins in 1995 (and republished as The Kuan Yin Chronicles by Hampton Roads in 2009), this seminal work explores the origins and evolution of the goddess in ancient China, early Buddhism, Taoism, and shamanism. Religious scholar Martin Palmer and Chinese divination expert Man-Ho Kwok discuss the Kuan Yin myths and stories, and Jay Ramsay provides fresh translations of 100 Kuan Yin poems that function both as literature and divination tools. “A compelling story that reads like a detective mystery . . . and shows the contemporary reassertion of the Goddess in the hearts and minds of men and women.” —Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade. Previously published as The Kuan Yin Chronicles.
This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding by Kathy J. Phillips Pdf
The bodhisattva Kuan Yin remains one of the most popular figures in Buddhism, loved and worshiped throughout Asia for over a millennium. She arrived in Hawaii with the first Chinese plantation workers, each of whom would have kept a rice paper print of her over a small altar in his room. In this delightful book, Kathy Phillips and Joseph Singer celebrate Kuan Yin’s many incarnations in words and images that exhibit humor, poignancy, and the open-endedness of a koan. An introduction examines Kuan Yin and her place in religion, legend, art, changing social prescriptions for gender, and the everyday lives of Hawaii’s people.
Winner, 2024 Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Ming Studies The goddess Guanyin began in India as the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, originally a male deity. He gradually became indigenized as a female deity in China over the span of nearly a millennium. By the Ming (1358–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods, Guanyin had become the most popular female deity in China. In Becoming Guanyin, Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. Li focuses on the power of material things to enable women to access religious experience and transcendence. In particular, she examines how secular Buddhist women expressed mimetic devotion and pursued religious salvation through creative depictions of Guanyin in different media such as painting and embroidery and through bodily portrayals of the deity using jewelry and dance. These material displays expressed a worldview that differed from yet fit within the Confucian patriarchal system. Attending to the fabrication and use of “women’s things” by secular women, Li offers new insight into the relationships between worshipped and worshipper in Buddhist practice. Combining empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies, Becoming Guanyin is a field-changing analysis that reveals the interplay between material culture, religion, and their gendered transformations.
About Hope Bradford CHt A spiritualist and hypnotherapist, Hope Bradford CHt has been profoundly influenced since witnessing and transcribing the Kuan Yin Buddhist parables as revealed in the book: Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin. It was during that time that Kuan Yin promised to appear again to Ms. Bradford-that they enjoyed a very personal relationship. Included in this latest work, Kuan Yin Buddhism: Parables, Visitations and Teachings, Ms. Bradford delineates her amazing dreams and experiences with this revered deity of the Chinese Pantheon-that in addition to the originally-set down teachings, the ancient wisdom continues to this very day!At some point it was revealed that Hope's encounter and hence relationship with Kuan Yin was no accident: "Hope, Kuan Yin sends you bands of energy. The bands look almost like the Milky Way, where nebulas are constantly born. She sends these bands through you so that the wisdom can be spoken by me. We're a team. I can't do this without you! Now, I see Kuan Yin in such a beautiful form. Her countenance is such a brilliant white that there is a blue aura radiating out from Her." Lena Lees"People want to know why I chose Lena and Hope to bring forth my message of loving-kindness to the world. It's alchemy! Lena and Hope's combined energy creates an open channel that I can manifest through. It is very rare in the world. It doesn't matter what nationality a person is. I can go wherever I want. I come to them because they are receptive." Kuan YinAccording to Kuan Yin, earth is the most important step in our evolution where we, as limitless, spiritual beings, achieve physical manifestation in all of its complexities; wherein beliefs, intentions and desires are the driving forces for the personal creation of reality. Indeed, the significance of the goddess's imaginative transformations (as described in Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin, is that they are metaphors for the personal transformation of thought into matter. Beyond her shape-shifts are the goddess's profound parables demonstrating Her teachings on the nature of personal creation: Compassion at the level personified by Kuan Yin is not some luxury sentiment that might be expressed towards others at the appropriate moment. Indeed, it is at the very core of humanity's survival. And as Kuan Yin's Law of Compassion is intimately connected with all daily choices and emotions, such compassionate feelings on the part of the ego will join and expand the great rhapsody of light and sound stretching beyond any time/space constraints. In this book delineating the Kuan Yin Buddhism, the deity states: "I know the whole story. You're at page ten but I understand the entire evolution. In reality, it's already over. It's a dream. Remember? You're living a dream. It's very complicated to hold the dream and live the dream. You are learning the art of juggling the dream and the world of dreams!"Kuan Yin's profound teachings can help you understand: *Your purpose in life *Kuan Yin's powerful spiritual meditations *The Love and Forgiveness Principle *How the moment is one's link to eternity *The power of sound and vibration *The power of imagination *Reincarnation *Love and relationships
In China and other parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, accounts of villagers having been visited by Goddess of Compassion and Mercy, Kuan Yin, have been handed down through the ages. While uncommon in the United States and the Western Hemisphere in general, such visitations are not completely unheard of. Along with Kuan Yin's profound parables and spiritual teachings, this manuscript chronicles the deity's numerous visitations to author Hope Bradford CHt following her transcribing of the book: Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin. A spiritualist and hypnotherapist, it was during that time that Kuan Yin promised to appear again to Ms. Bradford--that they enjoyed a very personal relationship. Included in this latest work, Kuan Yin Buddhism: Parables, Visitations and Teachings, Ms. Bradford delineates her amazing dreams and experiences with this revered deity of the Chinese Pantheon--that in addition to the originally-set down teachings, the ancient wisdom continues to this very day! At some point it was revealed that Hope's encounter and hence relationship with Kuan Yin was no accident: "Hope, Kuan Yin sends you bands of energy. The bands look almost like the Milky Way, where nebulae are constantly born. She sends these bands through you so that the wisdom can be spoken by me. We're a team. I can't do this without you! Now, I see Kuan Yin in such a beautiful form. Her countenance is such a brilliant white that there is a blue aura radiating out from Her."~ Lena Lees"People want to know why I chose Lena and Hope to bring forth my message of loving-kindness to the world. It's alchemy! Lena and Hope's combined energy creates an open channel that I can manifest through. It is very rare in the world. It doesn't matter what nationality a person is. I can go wherever I want. I come to them because they are receptive." ~ Kuan YinAccording to Kuan Yin, earth is the most important step in our evolution where we, as limitless, spiritual beings, achieve physical manifestation in all of its complexities; wherein beliefs, intentions and desires are the driving forces for the personal creation of reality. Indeed, the significance of the goddess's imaginative transformations is that they are metaphors for the personal transformation of thought into matter. Beyond her shape-shifts are the goddess's profound parables demonstrating Her teachings on the nature of personal creation. Compassion at the level personified by Kuan Yin is not some luxury sentiment that might be expressed towards others at the appropriate moment. Indeed, it is at the very core of humanity's survival. And as Kuan Yin's Law of Compassion is intimately connected with all daily choices and emotions, such compassionate feelings on the part of the ego will join and expand the great rhapsody of light and sound stretching beyond any time/space constraints. In this book delineating the Kuan Yin Buddhism, the deity states: "I know the whole story. You're at page ten but I understand the entire evolution. In reality, it's already over. It's a dream. Remember? You're living a dream. It's very complicated to hold the dream and live the dream. You are learning the art of juggling the dream and the world of dreams!"Kuan Yin's profound teachings can help you understand: *Your purpose in life *The Love and Forgiveness Principle *How the moment is one's link to eternity *The power of sound and vibration *The power of imagination *Reincarnation *Love and relationships
Kuan Yin Chronicles by Martin Palmer,Jay Ramsay,Man-Ho Kwok Pdf
Kuan Yin is the most important, best-loved deity in the Chinese world. She is the living expression of compassion and the center of devotion in most Chinese homes and workplaces. Yet she is barely known in the West. The authors of The Kuan Yin Chronicles introduce Kuan Yin to Western readers, and reveal that Kuan Yin is the mystery and power of the divine feminine, who transcends all doctrines, creeds, and traditions. The book is divided into three sections: 1. The origins and evolution of Kuan Yin in early China, Buddhism, Taoism, and shamanism. 2. The myths and stories about Kuan Yin. 3. Fresh translations of 100 Kuan Yin poems, which function as both literature and tools for divination and prophecy. The Kuan Yin Chronicles is for any Western reader who wants to connect with the ancient power of the Goddess in their lives.
The Gates of Truth are Numberless! "Sit with me in divine faith and believe in me. And I will be there!...I am energy manifested into form. I don't have any need for material things. Nor, do the laws of karma bind me. I'm free, without any karmic restraints. I don't get a reward for providing you with this information. Instead, I delight in helping to liberate souls. I come from a realm where there is instant, mind to mind understanding. There can be no lies; no misunderstanding. I'm a power magnet. I'll open the portal and what you need for your life will pour into you...When people acknowledge my presence, that's what makes it work. However, I will never force my memory on people. It's all a matter of Free Will. Free Will is very important. People must have Free Will to exist!" Kuan Yin In these interesting times, Bodhisattva Kuan Yin, provides Her spiritual teachings for our modern era. Compassion at the level personified by Kuan Yin is not some luxury sentiment that might be expressed towards others at the appropriate moment. Indeed, it is foundational for our very humanity. Emphasizing faith, love and knowledge as the pathway to liberation, Mahāyāna Buddhism reveres Bodhisattva Kuan Yin, (She who hears the cries of the world) as their central figure of worship. Personal enlightenment, according to the above spiritual discipline, is manifested through compassion which forms the basis of all perfections.While, primarily aligned with Mahāyāna Buddhism, this manuscript also presents new spiritual dimensions. As is emphasized in this text, reciting Kuan Yin's mantra: Aum Mani Padme Hum, allows one to call upon Her for help and comfort. While there are varying translations, among Kuan Yin's four traditional vows are: "The gates to truth are numberless." and "The way of awakening is supreme, I vow to realize." Within Buddhist tradition, Kuan Yin is known for Her infinite compassion and vow to relieve suffering for those living on earth. Herein, then, are the deity's sage words for how we, as eternal beings reincarnated on earth, can live in accordance with Her spiritual teachings. An alumni of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Hope Bradford CHt continued on to become a licensed Hypnotherapist. During a scheduled hypnosis sessions, her client, Lena Lees, began to spontaneously channel the modern spiritual teachings of Bodhisattva Kuan Yin. Having, for nearly two decades, written about and practiced these teachings, Ms. Bradford has experienced the profound peace and joy the Bodhisattva's wisdom can bring. Having again come for hypnosis and achieved her trance state, Ms. Lees once described a most exquisite "gateway to truth" "It's very interesting how Kuan Yin will manifest gifts for me. She has created a beautiful marble entrance-way that sits on a beach that I now can go through. Peering through this magical portal, I see Kuan Yin riding on a dragon. She is having such a good time! I hear Kuan Yin say, 'Come sit with this energy for awhile. It is an All-Knowing energy. There is so much beyond an earthly existence; when we leave our bodies. There is much work to do in these realms. There are so many souls that need help. I'm just asking you to send my message about this All-Knowing, limitless energy. Most people don't have the opportunity to experience this energy while still in a human body. Don't you know Lena that you can come here anytime?" Featuring a compendium summarizing the forty Kuan Yin Buddhism Universal Laws codifying humanity's primary resources of love and free will, the primacy of sound and frequency, true meditation, the infinite realms, the simultaneous nature of reality, Kuan Yin's Love and Forgiveness Principle and the multidimensional nature of reincarnation, this manuscript presents a tapestry of found pieces to the cosmic puzzle, based on astounding psychic phenomena. .
