Legend of Miaoshan

Name: Legend of Miaoshan
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ISBN: 9780199266715

ISBN-10: 0199266719

ISBN-13: 9780199266715

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Glen Dudbridge

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The tale of a devout Buddhist girl who separates from her family and through suffering and death finally achieves divine status is a myth of religious celibacy, of filial piety, and of ritual salvation of the dead. It also presents a major symbol of the tension in women's lives between individual spiritual fulfillment and the imperatives of family duty. This is a new edition of the first full study of this important and influential Chinese legend.

Book details

List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/15/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 172
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.78" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Introduction



The Guanyin cult at Xiangshan Monastery



The original story



Versions of the story to 1500



The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries



Anatomy of the story



Interpretations