The Kuan Yin Oracle

Kuan Yin, the Compassionate One, or literally ‘the one who sees and hears the cries of the world’, is the principal goddess in the eastern firmament. She is centuries older than the Christian Virgin Mary, but not unconnected with her in that in most illustrations she holds a rosary, suggesting purification of the cycle of birth and death, and a willow branch, a symbol of Buddhist virtues. Kuan Yin’s image can be found wherever there are Chinese or Japanese speaking people in the world - in ho…