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Island of Guanyin - Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers (Hardcover)
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Island of Guanyin - Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers (Hardcover)
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Mount Putuo, also known as the "Island of Guanyin," is a small
island in the East China Sea known as the single most important
pilgrimage site for the worship of the Bodhisattva Guanyin. The
Bodhisattva of compassion is one of Asia's most popular deities and
is worshipped from Sri Lanka to Japan. Established in the tenth
century, Mount Putuo continues to attract thousands of visitors
every year, and is counted among the "Four Great and Famous
Buddhist Mountains" of China. Over the centuries, poems,
biographies, maps, and legends about Mount Putuo, as well as
descriptions of its landscape and temples, have been collected in a
series of local histories called "gazetteers." Following the
structure of a gazetteer, with each chapter dedicated to a
particular genre, this book discusses the function of each in the
depiction of Mount Putuo and illustrates them with a number of
examples, none of which have been translated before. Written for
all who are interested in the history of Asian Buddhism and the
sacred sites of China, this book demonstrates the textual
construction of this Buddhist sacred site across a variety of
genres.
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