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This isn't a picture I'm holding : Kuan Yin /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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