This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding : Kuan Yin Paperback / softback
by Kathy J. Phillips
Part of the Intersections: Asian & Pacific American Transcultural Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
The bodhisattva Kuan Yin remains one of the most popular figures in Buddhism, loved and worshiped throughout Asia for over a millennium.
She arrived in Hawai'i with the first Chinese plantation workers, each of whom would have kept a ricepaper print of her over a small altar in his room.
In this delightful book, Kathy Phillips and Joseph Singer celebrate Kuan Yin's many incarnations in words and images that exhibit humor, poignancy, and the open-endedness of a koan.
An introduction examines Kuan Yin and her place in religion, legend, art, changing social prescriptions for gender, and the everyday lives of Hawai'i's people.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, 40 illustrations
- Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2004
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- ISBN:9780824827571
Information
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, 40 illustrations
- Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780824827571
