In Search of the Bodhisattva Way: The Child Sudhana's Journey to Enlightenment from the Avatamsaka Sutra

A retelling of Sudhana’s story from the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, 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 oldest an...