Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion A Path Toward Clarity and Peace

by Boucher, Sandy

• ISBN13: 9780807013410
• ISBN10: 0807013412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-12
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

Sandy Boucher, celebrated author ofOpening the LotusandTurning 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 Yinis 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.

Author Biography

Sandy Boucher, a leading spokesperson on women and Buddhism, conducts retreats that combine meditation with writing, exploring the compassionate teachings of the Celestial Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kwan Yin. She is the author of eight books, including Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer; Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion; Opening the Lotus, A Woman's Guide to Buddhism; and Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism. She lives in Oakland, California, with her partner.

Table of Contents

Invitation	1	(15)
A Thousand Hands	16	(43)
Kwan Yin in Men's Clothes	17	(4)
``Leaving Home''	21	(7)
Where She Lives	28	(10)
Familiar Energy	38	(8)
A Problematical Relationship	46	(3)
Kwan Yin in Burma	49	(4)
Oh Goddess, Give Us Strength to Cut Through	53	(6)
She Carries Me	59	(47)
A Catholic Opens Her Heart	60	(5)
Rite of Passage	65	(5)
The Essence of Kwan Yin	70	(4)
Kwan Yin as Comforter and Healer	74	(4)
The Kwan Yin Revolutionary Army	78	(9)
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Battling the Dogs of Hell	87	(5)
The Mount Shasta Communications	92	(5)
Kwan Yin / The Prostitute	97	(5)
A Kwan Yin Pagan Goddess Mass	102	(4)
Meditations, Songs, and Practices	106	(15)
Making a Kwan Yin Altar	107	(1)
Begin the Day with Kwan Yin	107	(1)
Traditional Chant	107	(1)
A Divination Tool	108	(2)
Praise to Kwan Yin (Song)	110	(1)
Bowing to Kwan Yin	111	(1)
Willow Willow (Song)	111	(1)
Guided Meditation on Kwan Yin	112	(2)
The Mount Shasta Communications: Texts to Meditate Upon	114	(1)
``Give Me a Hand, Kuan Yin'' (Song)	115	(4)
``She Carries me''Song	119	(1)
A Flower for the Goddess	120	(1)
Books and Articles	121	(8)
Credits	129	(1)
Acknowledgments	130