Review of Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression.(Book review)

Journal of Buddhist Ethics | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression. By Taigen Dan Leighton. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003, 348 pages, ISBN 0861713338 (paper).

Teachers who have found the first edition of this book useful in the classroom will be grateful to Wisdom Publications for making this new version available. Leighton originally wrote Bodhisattva Archetypes: Classic Buddhist Guides to Awakening and Their Modern Expression (Penguin Arkana, 1998) to suggest how the ideals represented by the various bodhisattva figures in (especially) East Asian ...

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