In Search of the Bodhisattva Way
The Child Sudhana's Journey to Enlightenment from the Avatamsaka Sutra
$66.68
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2026
Summary
A retelling of Sudhana’s story from the Avatamsaka Sutra, this book chronicles a child’s quest to seek spiritual wisdom from fifty-five bodhisattvas. Each chapter focuses on a different bodhisattva, with accompanying images from a 12th-century Japanese painted scroll.
What does it mean to dedicate yourself to the spiritual path with the innocence of a child? The answers to that are revealed in the story of a little boy named Sudhana, protagonist of the longest chapter in one of the ol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781645473831 |
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| ISBN-10: | 164547383X |
| Author: | Kosei Morimoto, Yoshiro Ogura |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 229mm |
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Kosei Morimoto
KOSEI MORIMOTO (1934-)
Kosei Morimoto entered Todai Monastery at age fifteen and served as the abbot of Todai Monastery and the head of the Kegon (Japanese Avatamsaka) School from 2004 to 2007. He received his PhD from Kyoto University in Islamic studies and is the author of several publications on Avatamsaka Buddhism in Japan and the Nara period of Japanese history, as well as Islamic history, economics, and Ibn Khaldun.
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