Jizo Bodhisattva: Modern Healing & Traditional Buddhist Practice

In Jizo Bodhisattva, Zen teacher and practicing pediatrician Jan Chozen Bays explores the development of traditional Buddhist practices related to Jizo, as well as the growing interest in Jizo practice in modern American Zen Buddhism.

She also shows how you can incorporate this rich tradition into your own life, through meditations, mantras and chanting.

In traditional Buddhist belief, a bodhisattva is an enlightened being who has forsaken entry into nirvana until all beings are saved. Jizo, ...