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Title: Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression by Taigen Dan Leighton, Joan Halifax, Taigen Daniel Leighton ISBN: 0-86171-333-8 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Comment: This book is a powerful work which introduces us to some of the most profound bodhisattva's in Buddhist cosmology. In "Faces of Compassion" Taigen Dan Leighton brings these prime examples to life, taking us through an explorative adventure of these bodhisattvas both ancient and modern. He shows us indeed what it might mean for us to personify some of these qualities the bodhisattva's and Shakyamuni have set forth.
Shakyamuni, Leighton points out, is not an archetypal bodhisattva in the way some of the others whom are discussed in this book are. He was a human being who had a profound impact on human history. But in another sense, the Buddha's life has elements within it that truly showed the way for the practicing the way of a bodhisattva.
In this book he also covers the controversial figure Daniel Ellsburg. Perhaps you are familiar with him, and perhaps you are not. During the Vietnam era, he released the Pentagon Papers. He had been an extremely important civilian official in the Defense Department, his proficiency was the dominion and management of our nuclear weaponry. He had access to knowledge the kind of which only a select few in our nation's government ever are privy to. In short, he released documents that showed U.S. administration officials had been lying all throughout the war, having decided ages ago that the Unites States could not be successful over there. Ellsberg released a top secret document he had prepared in 1971 to the New York Times. He is one of the most prominent, and unlikely figures, who stood up and against the horrible atrocities experienced during that war. He is an example Leighton gives us, of a modern bodhisattva. Enjoy this book.
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Title: Lady of the Lotus-Born : The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal by Gyalwa Changchub, N Nyingpo ISBN: 1570625441 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension: Select Essays, 1944-1968 by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 1577312104 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend by Miranda J. Green ISBN: 0500279756 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Ehihei Dogen's Bendowa by Kosho Uchiyama, Shohaku Okumura, Daniel Leighton, Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, Taigen Daniel Leighton, Dogen Shobo Genzo ISBN: 080483105X Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Grail Legend by Emma Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz ISBN: 0691002371 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 05 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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