The Promise of Kuan Yin: Wisdom, Miracles, & Compassion Palmer Martin
The Promise of Kuan Yin: Wisdom, Miracles, & Compassion Palmer Martin The best and most comprehensive book on the most important and best-loved Chinese goddess.Walk down the streets of Chinatown in…
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The Promise of Kuan Yin: Wisdom, Miracles, & Compassion Palmer Martin
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. 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. 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,