KUAN YIN by Martin Palmer and Jay Ramsay with Man-Ho-Kwok
Myths and Prophecies of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion
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Kuan Yin is the most important and best loved deity of the Chinese world. She is the living expression of compassion, whose gentle face and elegant figure form a centre of devotion in most Chinese homes and workplaces. Yet she is barely known in the West and few studies of her true story and origins within Buddhism, Taoism and the female shamans of China. Now, in her universal mystery and power of the divine feminine, she transcends all doctrines, creeds and traditions.
The beautiful poetry of the 100 Prophecies of Kuan Yin is here translated into English for the first time. These poems are used as a method of divination, to gain insight into the depths of the soul. With the myths, they form the heart of this new look at the most powerful but least known goddesses.
Martin Palmer, the Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture (ICOREC), is an expert on interfaith work, author of many books and translator of numerous ancient Chinese texts, including the I Ching and Tao Te Ching.
Jay Ramsay is an acclaimed poet, teacher and therapist. His main work is The Great Return and he is particularly interested in the role of the artist-healer.
Man-Ho-Kwok trained for 20 years with Taoist and Buddhist masters in Hong Kong, and is now the foremost practitioner of traditional Chinese religion in Britain. He is a renowned Chinese scholar and translator.