Becoming Guanyin : : Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China / / Yuhang Li.
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 in Ch...
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| Übergeordnet: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Ort / Verlag: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Serie: | Premodern East Asia: New Horizons
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource |
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