Reeves, Gene. “Wonderful Voice Bodhisattva.” Dharma World 33 (April-June 2006): 44-48.

Abstract

In this article, Reeves examines the mythical stories of the Wonderful Voice Bodhisattva. In the Christian New Testament, the Gospel According to John, speaks of "the Word." The Word was with God and was God; the Word "became flesh and dwelt among us." Wonderful Voice Bodhisattva is such a living word, the awakening that can come to us, not just as words spoken and written, but embodied in living beings, and not just in the body of one bodhisattva, but in many different bodies--bodies that are female as well as male, bodies that belong to the lowly as well as to the high, bodies that are nonhuman as well as human. Anyone we meet can be our extremely tall and handsome Wonderful Voice Bodhisattva.