This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding : : Kuan Yin /

This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding : : Kuan Yin / / 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 del...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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