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Learning to See
Not a lecture — you learn how to look.
Every lesson: Look・Guess・Tap・Compare・Take away
Read a Guanyin image: crown, hands, seat, robes, face, setting. Each lesson teaches one way of seeing.
Lesson 1 · Reading the CrownRecognizing GuanyinGuanyin and Mahāsthāmaprāpta (Dashizhi)StartLesson 2 · Reading the face and formThe Faces of Tang and SongFrom full and rounded to slender and refinedStartLesson 3 · Reading the SeatPoised and At EaseWhat a Seated Pose SaysStartLesson 4 · Looking at the handsOne Body and a Thousand HandsSacred Guanyin and Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye GuanyinStartLesson 5 · Reading what's heldPure Vase, Willow, LotusThe stories behind what the hands holdStartLesson 6 · Reading the settingWater-Moon Guanyin in Two LandsChina and GoryeoStartLesson 7 · Reading the haloHead Halo and Body HaloThe light behindStartLesson 8 · Reading the lotus seatUpturned and Downturned LotusThe seat beneath the feetStartLesson 9 · Reading adornmentsJeweled Necklaces and Celestial ScarvesThe strings of beads and long sashes on the bodyStartLesson 10 · Spotting the white robeWhite-Robed GuanyinA Single White RobeStartLesson 11 · Reading the facesEleven-Headed GuanyinEleven Faces on One HeadStartLesson 12 · Reading a wrathful formHorse-Headed GuanyinThe Wrathful FaceStartLesson 13 · Reading positionThe Western TriadThe Buddha's two sides, and the one who holds the lotus platformStartLesson 14 · Reading LegendsFish-Basket GuanyinGuanyin in LegendStartLesson 15 · Reading materialsStone, Bronze, Wood, Porcelain, SilkReading MaterialsStart
Teaching · Practice · RealizationWays of seeing you have learned: None yet — start with lesson 1
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