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This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding : Kuan Yin / Kathy J. Phillips.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824827571
  • 9780824840808
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 290
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 delightful book, Kathy Phillips and Joseph Singer celebrate Kuan Yin’s many incarnations in words and images that exhibit humor, poignancy, and the open-endedness of a koan. An introduction examines Kuan Yin and her place in religion, legend, art, changing social prescriptions for gender, and the everyday lives of Hawaii’s people.
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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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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 delightful book, Kathy Phillips and Joseph Singer celebrate Kuan Yin’s many incarnations in words and images that exhibit humor, poignancy, and the open-endedness of a koan. An introduction examines Kuan Yin and her place in religion, legend, art, changing social prescriptions for gender, and the everyday lives of Hawaii’s people.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)