This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding Kuan Yin |
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| Author:
| Phillips, Kathy J. |
| Photographer:
| Singer, Joe |
| Series title: | Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8248-2757-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2004 |
| Publisher: | University of Hawaii Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.99 |
Book Description:
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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 Hawaii with the first Chinese plantation workers, each of whom would have kept a rice paper 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...
More DescriptionThe bodhisattva Kuan Yin remains one of the most popular figures in Buddhism, loved and worshiped throughout Asia for over a millennium. She arrived in Hawaii with the first Chinese plantation workers, each of whom would have kept a rice paper 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 Hawaii's people.