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In Jizo Bodhisattva, Zen teacher and practicing pediatrician Jan Chozen Bays explores the development of traditional Buddhist practices related to Jizo, as well as the growing interest in Jizo practice in modern American Zen Buddhism.She also shows how you can incorporate this rich tradition into your own life, through meditations, mantras and chanting.In traditional Buddhist belief, a bodhisattva is an enlightened being who has forsaken entry into nirvana until all beings are saved. Jizo, one of the four great bodhisattvas of Mahayana Buddhism, is know as'the Bodhisattva of the Greatest Vows.'He is regarded as the protector of travelerswhether their journeys in the physical world, or in the spiritual reams. Jizo also has special significance for pregnant women and parents whose children have died.

Author

Jan Chozen Bays; Heng Sure

Publisher

Tuttle Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781462918058

Subjects

Philosophy, Buddhism, Body Mind & Spirit