posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 3:56 PM
by
Wandering Sages
Kuan Yin goes home to China
I have heard that translation rights for Stephen Karcher's ‘Kuan Yin Oracle', Time Warner, have just been bought by a Chinese publisher. It is about to be translated into Chinese for sale on the mainland.
Kuan Yin is the 'Compassionate One' her image is found wherever there is a Buddhist, Daoist or Shinto shrine throughout China and Japan. This is an old temple oracle which is still very much in use today in temples and homes. Kuan Yin is a Bodhisattva and her name means, ‘She who hears the cries of the world’. The Bodhisattvas are described in the Lotus scripture (Saddarmapundarika Sutra) and the Land Scripture (Shukavativyuha Sutra) which talk of the Bodhisattva’s life saving powers and direct connections with the Buddha. A well known passage in the Lotus Scripture says that a person only has to call upon Kuan Yin with single mindedness to be saved from any ill.
Each ‘outcome’ in this oracle begins with a short evocative verse of wisdom. This is followed by statements tied to the phase of the moon, season and lifecycle. Finally there are prognostications in each of the areas below:
Household and family
Business
Relationships
Children and birth
Litigation, Judgements, news from afar and journeys
The place you make home.
Illness.
The Kuan Yin oracle speaks clearly to our every day concerns. However the attached advice reaches somewhere a little deeper into the nature of the time and the way we conduct ourselves.