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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 150–152.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Megan Bryson Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China . By Yuhang Li . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . xii, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780231190121 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Becoming Guanyin is a book about...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 725–727.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Beata Grant Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China . By Yuhang Li . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . 299 pp. ISBN: 9780231190121 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 In chapter 2, devoted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 February 1995
..., and in an eleven-headed image dated to the Northern Song period in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Similarly, the author notes the height of images' crowns in contrast even to their piled-up hair. From here Gridley moves to six clay sculptures housed in the Shanmen and Guanyin Pavilion of Dule Monastery in Jixian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1045–1047.
Published: 01 August 2002
... of a long personal and scholarly search for Indian roots and the subsequent 1046 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES sinification, feminization, and "domestication" of Avalokiteshvara, who in China evolved into the universally popular female deity known as Kuan-yin (Guanyin). As Yii tells us in her introduction...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 536–539.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in which Buddhism is very definitely in the frame: the meditative method of the Heavenly Kitchens, the ritual of Augmenting the Life Account, and the cult of the Great Dipper. In the interest of balance, she also examines the adaptation of the Buddhist divinity Guanyin in the guise of the Taoist god...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1106–1108.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Salvation and Filial Piety: Two Precious Scroll Narratives of Guanyin and Her Acolytes (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008). It is therefore most welcome news that Idema and Grant have followed up their earlier collaboration on gender and literature in The Red Brush: Writing Women in Imperial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 181–203.
Published: 01 February 2010
... republic was established in 1911, the eminent thinker Liang Qichao 梁啟超, along with his sometime colleagues Du Yaquan 杜亞泉 and Wu Guanyin 吳貫因, invoked “rule by man” language to advocate a greater role for moral reform as the Chinese government transitioned from imperial rule to democracy. Increasingly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 909–910.
Published: 01 November 1991
... sometime after the person's death. City gods spread slowly through the Tang and Song periods. Others, like Guanyin and the Eastern Peak, spread as Buddhism and Taoism evolved. In the century and a half studied by Hansen, a major development was the spread of four cults meaning the Five Manifestations, King...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 379–396.
Published: 01 May 1998
... an oath to the Bodhisattva Guanyin that she would become a lay Buddhist for twelve years if her mother recovered from a serious illness (Faun 1991, Ciji n.d Guanyin granted the prayer. Several years later, when she was 24, her father died from a stroke and she felt some sense of responsibility...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 609–611.
Published: 01 May 2009
... on Chinese Buddhist art has taken many different approaches, ranging from the examination of broad themes (such as art and political authority) to studies of specific sites (such as Longmen and Dunhuang), specific figures (such as Guanyin), or specific texts (such as the Lotus Sutra ). An-yi Pan's Painting...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 589–590.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., for example, was born together with the White Snake Demon—as blood and hair of the single Bodhisattva Guanyin. Her death in childbirth was caused by the demon. By subduing her demon double and reuniting with it in death, Chen Jinggu overcame her bad death, as well as her kinship roles in the Confucian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1047–1048.
Published: 01 August 2002
... anyone wanting to know anything about Guanyin will go. BEATA GRANT Washington University in St. Louis INNER ASIA Law and Custom in the Steppe: The Kazakhs of the Middle Horde and Russian Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. By VIRGINIA MARTIN. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. xviii, 244 pp. $75.00...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 133–134.
Published: 01 February 1989
... Vimalaklrti, Cixi as Guanyin, and Mao Zedong in a Lenin-like pose. The content of this book is very rich and suggestive. Among the many puzzles of contemporary Chinese art, two can now be explained by analyzing information supplied by Cohen: why are so many art works blatant imitations of Western styles...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1073–1074.
Published: 01 November 2004
..., solution for the more experienced reader who might not immediately recognize that good and wise advisor translates as kalya¯n.amitra or expedient Dharmas as upa¯yakau´salya. A few other idiosyncrasies seem to have crept in: Guanyin, for example, is glossed only under the Sanskrit Avalokites´vara...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 February 2020
... with Chinese business successes and failures in other contexts, especially those that restrict citizenship status for certain groups (p. 100). The replacement of static identity with fluid hybridity informs Roberts's next chapter, which focuses on a Hokkien Kuanyin (Guanyin) Temple in Rangoon. Readers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 179–181.
Published: 01 February 1997
...., deities, ancestors, City Gods, and the Bodhisattva Guanyin) as well as attitudes toward such beings of traditional Chinese thinkers (e.g., Zhu Xi). In the second section (nine chapters), a wide range of vehicles of communication with the unseen are covered, although most examples are from the meditative...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 767–769.
Published: 01 August 2004
...) government and three prominent Buddhist organizations Zongguo fojiaohui, Foguangshan, and Ciji gongdehui in the years between 1947 and 1996. Barbara Reed looks at changes in the narrative structure of the bodhisattva Guanyin conversion stories since World War II. Like Confucianism and Daoism, Buddhism...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 February 1997
... the demonic origins of the gods. In 1995,1 obtained from a master puppeteer in Fuqing a script for marionette theater entitled The Five Numinous Gentlemen of the Palace of Heavenly Immortals. In this work, Guanyin decides to descend to earth and persuade humankind to remedy its poor behavior, vowing that she...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1074–1076.
Published: 01 November 2004
... equivalents. This provides a useful, if somewhat cumbersome, solution for the more experienced reader who might not immediately recognize that good and wise advisor translates as kalya¯n.amitra or expedient Dharmas as upa¯yakau´salya. A few other idiosyncrasies seem to have crept in: Guanyin...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 601–604.
Published: 01 May 2003
... in Paintings and Woodblock Prints," by Ann Barrott Wicks, discusses the Chinese wish for sons and the desire to BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 603 ensure their health by pleasing such deities as the child protectors Vaisravana, Hariti, the goddess of Mount Tai, Tianxian, and the child-granting Guanyin. Visual material...