Becoming Guanyin: artistic devotion of Buddhist women in late imperial China
"The goddess Guanyin began in India as the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, originally a male deity. He gradually became indigenized as a female deity in China over the span of nearly a millennium. By the Ming (1358-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods, Guanyin had become the most popular female deity...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Premodern East Asia: New horizons
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Guanyin
/ Cult
/ Buddhist woman
/ History 1644-1911
B Cultic object |
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ART ; Asian ; Chinese
B Avalokiteśvara (Buddhist deity) B Buddhist women B Women in Buddhism B Avalokiteśvara |
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