Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China by Yuhang Li

Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China

Yuhang Li

312 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction art history religion informative reflective slow-paced
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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, G...

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