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In the dark, candle-lit worship hall of a temple, I heard a woman tell her husband, “What a beautiful Kannon.” He agreed. I looked closely at the statue. It was Amida Buddha. A wooden tablet in front of the altar bore the name in Sino-Japanese characters. But to the devout worshipper, a label makes no difference.
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Taigen Daniel Leighton, Bodhisattva Archetypes: Classic Buddhist Guides to Awakening and Their Modern Expression (New York: Penguin Arcana, 1998), 190.
Ian Reader, Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005), 23.
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Horton, S.J. (2007). Kannon: Whatever It Takes. In: Living Buddhist Statues in Early Medieval and Modern Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607149_4
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