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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Premodern East Asia: New Horizons
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction: Gendered Materialization of Guanyin
- [ 1 ] Dancing Guanyin: The Transformative Body and Buddhist Courtesans
- [ 2 ] Painting Guanyin with Brush and Ink: Negotiating Confucianism and Buddhism
- [ 3 ] Embroidering Guanyin with Hair: Efficacious Pain and Skill
- [ 4 ] Mimicking Guanyin with Hairpins: Jewelry as a Means of Transcendence
- Conclusion: From Home to Temple and Court: Restaging Women's Devotional Objects
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index