Customer Reviews

The Buddha Tarot Companion: A Mandala of Cards

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I approached this book with 3 perspectives and average the contents to a well deserved 4.5 star nearing 5. The author had covered many aspects of buddhism through this companion title of the buddha tarot.

Aside the well illustrated but not overly done buddha tarot deck, in my opinion, this deck would be better used for specific purposes rather than general reading. The white booklet (LWB) has quite a bit of coverage but this companion is a definite must in order to interpret it further.

The companion book does a good coverage of information in the areas of tarots, religion as well as academic studies/knowledge.

Besides the usual explanation of the buddha journey, coincidental linkage to the 22 trumps of the tarots, it also introduces the many buddhism items and association incorporate into the pips and court cards. A beginner should have no problem trying to get familiar with the materials as well as advanced or western ideas adopters.

The author did a good job linking western religions with buddhism, which is usually canned to be an eastern religion. For the standard tarots content and introductory coverage, I will give the book 4 stars. With advanced topics, it deserves 4.5 stars.

Through the contents presentation, it is not difficult to tell that the author is targetting western readers and in order to achieve that, the author did a good job by referencing many western ideas, philosophical and religions teachings such as Plato and Christ. The content may be boring to some but the coverage is definitely extensive and is good enough for academic reference. For religious coverage, it deserve a 4 stars, for knowledge and academic content, it deserves a 5 stars.