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Buddhists have a goddess called Kannon who embodies compassion.
Clay Farris Naff: Eat, Pray, Love ... Serve? The Religious Mandate for Compassion 2010
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Buddhists have a goddess called Kannon who embodies compassion.
Clay Farris Naff: Eat, Pray, Love ... Serve ? The Religious Mandate for Compassion 2010
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I've seen the goddess's name spelled "Kannon" in museum labels.
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I believe that in more recent scholarly writing about Japan one will find "Kannon", but it is probably true that "Kwannon" is entrenched in the literature in some areas.
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They found people who mumbled quasi Latin sounding prayers without understanding the words, people who baptized their babies without priests; people who used Buddhist prayer beads, and who prayed to Kannon statues that were unlike any others in Japan.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Requiem For Japan Rita Nakashima Brock 2011
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They found people who mumbled quasi Latin sounding prayers without understanding the words, people who baptized their babies without priests; people who used Buddhist prayer beads, and who prayed to Kannon statues that were unlike any others in Japan.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Requiem For Japan Rita Nakashima Brock 2011
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At dusk, for this opening immersion, I would head towards Asakusa Kannon Temple, whose great front gate makes you feel as if you're entering a Hiroshige woodcut.
Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top Pico Iyer 2010
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Thanks for a great thinking post, Ray! on 25 May 2009 at 5: 40 am Marc Vun Kannon
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Is writing novels a public service? 2009
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They took the Buddhist goddess of mercy, Kannon Quan Yin in China, put a baby in her arms like a madonna, and prayed to her secretly as Mary.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Requiem For Japan Rita Nakashima Brock 2011
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They took the Buddhist goddess of mercy, Kannon Quan Yin in China, put a baby in her arms like a madonna, and prayed to her secretly as Mary.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Requiem For Japan Rita Nakashima Brock 2011
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