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The main popular work to consolidate the spiritual and psychological bits of knowledge of presentday psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world folklore, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life. If it is available at your local barnlike strip mall, you should pick it up without hesitation. In his recently released, temple of a thousand faces, shors once again thrusts my imagination into exotic lands, a distant epoch and clash of civilizations, intriguing characters, compelling plots, scintillating love, and powerful mysticism all within a historically accurate framework, triggering my. A temple built by the famous warlord taira no kiyomori for emperor goshirakawa in 1164, sanjusangendo is primarily famous for its 1,001 statues of kannon, the goddess of compassion in her thousand armed incarnation, lined up along the entire length of the thirtythree ken unit of measurement hall from which the temple gets its moniker. His newest novel, temple of a thousand faces, is set in cambodia in 1177. There, in a story set nearly a thousand years ago, an empire is lost, in his international bestseller beneath a marble sky, john shors wrote about the ancient passion, beauty, and. Sanjusangendo, thirtythree ken hall is a buddhist temple of the tendai sect in the higashiyama district of kyoto, japan the temple was founded in 1164 by taira no kiyomori for the cloistered emperor goshirakawa. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. He asks adventurer allan foster to steal it for him, but foster has other plans.
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