Description: Further DetailsTitle: Becoming GuanyinCondition: NewSubtitle: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial ChinaISBN-10: 0231190131EAN: 9780231190138ISBN: 9780231190138Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/03/2022Description: Winner, 2024 Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Ming StudiesThe 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, Guanyin had become the most popular female deity in China. In Becoming Guanyin, Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin.Li focuses on the power of material things to enable women to access religious experience and transcendence. In particular, she examines how secular Buddhist women expressed mimetic devotion and pursued religious salvation through creative depictions of Guanyin in different media such as painting and embroidery and through bodily portrayals of the deity using jewelry and dance. These material displays expressed a worldview that differed from yet fit within the Confucian patriarchal system. Attending to the fabrication and use of “women’s things” by secular women, Li offers new insight into the relationships between worshipped and worshipper in Buddhist practice. Combining empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies, Becoming Guanyin is a field-changing analysis that reveals the interplay between material culture, religion, and their gendered transformations.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Yuhang LiGenre: Arts & PhotographyBook Series: Premodern East Asia: New HorizonsTopic: History, Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Becoming Guanyin
Title: Becoming Guanyin
Subtitle: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
ISBN-10: 0231190131
EAN: 9780231190138
ISBN: 9780231190138
Release Date: 05/03/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Name: Becoming Guanyin : Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Women, Buddhism / History, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Asia / China
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 16.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Yuhang Li
Subject Area: Religion, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Premodern East Asia: New Horizons Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
