Kuan Yin: The Eternal Goddess of Compassion

How a god became a goddess. She is called upon in storms at sea and in the silence of grief, in temples from Hangzhou to Los Angeles. Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy, is one of the most worshipped figures on earth. Few of her devotees know that she began as a man: Avalokiteśvara, a male bodhisattva from India, whose transformation into a Chinese goddess has puzzled scholars for centuries. Kuan Yin:...