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]
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Année de publication:2020
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Collection:Premodern East Asia: New Horizons
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