This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding : : Kuan Yin / / Kathy J. Phillips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Phillips, Kathy J.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Singer, Joe.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Wake --; Kuan Yin is Mobbed by Reporters at Honolulu International Airport --; Valley of the Temples, O'ahu --; Crack Seed --; Crush --; There Was Some Debate --; Kuan Yin Faces Charges --; Kuan Yin Mingles with the Ghosts, Now on Guided Tour, of the Slave Population Which Constructed the Great Wall of China --; Kuan Yin Turns Her Photo Album to a Certain Point --; Columbia Glacier --; The Grandmother --; Kuan Yin in the Folds of an Old Letter --; Kuan Yin at the Honolulu Academy of Arts --; After Thirty Years --; Lotus Hook --; Kuan Yin Rides to the Hunt --; Kuan Yin, Inventor --; Some Days --; Pent --; Tozen's White-Robed Kannon --; Ryozen's White-Robed Kannon --; Lin Ruyi's White-Robed Kuan Yin --; Narcissus on Chinese New Year (or: Kuan Yin Instructs the Student How to Change the Face of the World) --; Problems in Taxonomy --; Kuan Yin Takes the Long View --; To Kuan Yin --; While Kuan Yin Waits at the Airport --; Kannon Submits to Freedom in the Tea Ceremony --; This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding --; Jellyfish --; Cambodian Collage --; Happy Land Ltd --; Kannon Sweeps Up at the Mo'ili'ili Japanese Cemetery --; Stuck at the Buddha's First Precept --; Predictable Fire, 1911 --; Testimonial --; Kannon Goes Bon Dancing --; Statue of Kannon Brought Back by a Soldier --; To Please a Buddha --; Kuan Yin as the One Who Sees Sounds --; Who Reads, Who Writes --; It's Natural --; Lesson in Ink --; To a Working Mom Whose Babysitter Hasn't Shown Up --; Outpatient in Hawai'i Thinks of Snow --; On the Non-Duality of Dung and Deep Waters in a Brooklyn Museum --; World Wide Web --; The Named Is the Mother of Ten Thousand Things --; Footnote to Vietnam War --; The Thirty-Three Sites of Kannon --; Mr. Alzheimer's --; Holding On to a Bodhisattva --; How Kuan Yin Loves --; Kuan Yin Hears Cries --; Buddha-Bodies --; Photograph Sites --; Acknowledgments --; About the Author and Photographer
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824840808; 9783110649772; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824840808
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kathy J. Phillips.

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 examines Kuan Yin and her place in religion, legend, art, changing social prescriptions for gender, and the everyday lives of Hawaii’s people.