I am of the nature to become ill, and so am snugged up on the sofa under a blanket with my laptop and John Blofield's 1978 book Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin. The book places great emphasis on the difference between Kuan Yin the folk goddess, worshipped by illiterate peasants, and Kuan Yin the celestial Bodhisattva,
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