The legend of Miaoshan [[electronic resource] /] / Glen Dudbridge

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458024803321
• Autore: Dudbridge Glen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-83826-4; 0-19-151479-9; 1-4294-6941-2
• Edizione: [Rev. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Collana: Oxford Oriental monographs
• Disciplina: 294.3/4213; 294.34211
• Soggetti: Miaoshan (Legendary character); Buddhist legends - China; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previous ed.: London: Ithaca, 1978.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-154) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Guanyin Cult at Xiangshan Monastery; 3. The Original Story; 4. Versions of the Story to 1500; 5. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 6. Anatomy of the Story; 7. Interpretations; Appendix A: The Xiangshan Monastery Inscription of 1100; Appendix B: The Versions by Zuxiu and Juelian; Appendix C: The Mythical Oxford Exhibition; Appendix D: Table of Names and Features in the Story; List of Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The tale of a devout Buddhist girl who separates from her family and through suffering and death finally achieves divine status is a myth of religious celibacy, of filial piety, and of ritual salvation of the dead. It also presents a major symbol of the tension in women's lives between individual spiritual fulfilment and the imperatives of family duty. This is a new edition of the first full study of this important and influential Chinese legend. - ;In Chinese legend, the princess Miaoshan defied her father by refusing to marry, and pursued her austere religious vocation to the death, but retu