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The Legend of Miaoshan - Revised Edition (Hardcover, Revised Ed)
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The Legend of Miaoshan - Revised Edition (Hardcover, Revised Ed)
Series: Oxford Oriental Monographs
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In Chinese legend, the princess Miaoshan defied her father by
refusing to marry, and pursued her austere religious vocation to
the death, but returned to life to be his saviour and the saviour
of all mankind. The story is inseparable from the female
bodhisattva Guanyin, whose cult dominated religious life at all
levels in traditional China and is still powerful in rural China
today. Miaoshan herself became a lasting symbol of the tension in
women's lives between individual spiritual fulfilment and the
imperatives of family duty. The previous edition of this book was
the first full monograph on the subject. It deals with the story's
background, early history, and more developed later versions,
bringing much of this material to the attention of modern readers
for the first time. It analyses the basic sources, many of them in
Buddhist scripture, and the overall pattern of development. It
finally offers a range of interpretations which discover here myths
of religious celibacy, of filial piety, and of ritual salvation of
the dead. The legend of Miaoshan spans the uncertain boundaries
between Chinese popular literature, theatre, and religion, and this
book directly addresses students of those fields. But it holds a
larger significance for those interested in the position of women
in traditional society, and students of comparative literature and
folklore will find here a version of the 'King Lear' story. This
new edition takes account of epigraphical evidence, discovered and
accessed since the time of first publication, which enriches and
refines the discussion. This and other additional evidence,
introduced for the sake of a more complete picture, leave the
argument and conclusions of the original study still essentially
intact.
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