Photo Credit — The Author / Chinatown with the Manhattan Bridge in the background

Parṇaśavarī Does Not Play

We shouldn’t either but….we will

Call her what you will, but Parṇaśavarī has been watching things for a couple of years now. She is the aspect of the Buddha associated with the healing of contagious disease and we need her. Boy, do we need her.

With her visage both peaceful and wrathful — hey, them’s the words Red Zambala uses, not me — Parṇaśavarī turns her three eyes in…