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The Kuan Yin Oracle: The Voice of the Goddess of Compassion
Stephen Karcher
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Description for The Kuan Yin Oracle: The Voice of the Goddess of Compassion
Paperback. Use the oracle of the ancient Chinese Goddess of Compassion, Kuan Yin to answer specific questions about life and the future. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: VXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
Kuan Yin, the Compassionate One or literally 'the one who sees and hears the cries of the world' is the principal goddess in the eastern firmament. She is centuries older than the Christian Virgin Mary, but not unconnected with her in that in most illustrations she holds a rosary, suggesting purification of the cycle of birth and death, and a willow branch, a symbol of Buddhist virtues. Kuan Yin's image can be found wherever there are Chinese or Japanese speaking people in the world - in homes, restaurants, workplaces, small urban temples, Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto shrines - and ... Read more
Kuan Yin, the Compassionate One or literally 'the one who sees and hears the cries of the world' is the principal goddess in the eastern firmament. She is centuries older than the Christian Virgin Mary, but not unconnected with her in that in most illustrations she holds a rosary, suggesting purification of the cycle of birth and death, and a willow branch, a symbol of Buddhist virtues. Kuan Yin's image can be found wherever there are Chinese or Japanese speaking people in the world - in homes, restaurants, workplaces, small urban temples, Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto shrines - and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Piatkus Books London
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
240g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749941338
SKU
V9780749941338
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About Stephen Karcher
Stephen Karcher Ph.D is one of today's most controversial writers and practitioners in the field of Yijing studies, divinations and myth. He is an internationally recognized scholar, translator and initiated diviner, teaching and lecturing on the Yijang and other divination systems in the US, Great Britain, France, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa.
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