Island of Guanyin
Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 May 2016
- ISBN 9780190456191
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages298 pages
- Size 246x173x27 mm
- Weight 794 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 illus. 0
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Short description:
Island of Guanyin is the first book in English about Mount Putuo, one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in 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 known as "gazetteers."
MoreLong description:
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.
This engaging book works, and succeeds, at two levels. At one level, it is a cultural history of the island of Putuo (Mount Potalaka), a Buddhist pilgrimage site southeast of Shanghai. At another, it is a study of how gazetteers of this site textualized that history.
Table of Contents:
List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: "We Confucians" - Prefaces and Postscripts
Chapter 2: Landscape and Map - Visual Representations of Mount Putuo
Chapter 3: Foundation Legends and Miracle Tales
Chapter 4: Elements of Landscape: Stay, Copy, Move and Vanish
Chapter 5: People, Biographies
Chapter 6: Inscriptions
Chapter 7: The Poetic Landscape of Mount Putuo
Chapter 8: Travelers and Pilgrims
In Conclusion
Conventions & Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
