| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Island of Guanyin; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Site and Its Gazetteers; Historical Overview; Chapter 1 "We Confucians"-Prefaces and Postscripts; Exhibit 1: We Confucians; Exhibit 2: Buddhist Rhetoric Toward Confucianism; Exhibit 3: The Late Ming Revival of Mount Putuo as Hidden in Prefaces and Postscripts; Exhibit 4: Yang Yongjian on Confucianism, Buddhism, and Death (c. 1698); Conclusion; Chapter 2 Landscape and Map-Visual Representations of Mount Putuo; Exhibit 1: The Earliest Map of Mount Putuo (c. 1350) |
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Exhibit 2: The Maps in the Hou-Tu Gazetteer (1590)Exhibit 3: The "Twelve Views of Putuo" in the Qiu-Zhu Gazetteer (c. 1705); Conclusion; Chapter 3 Foundation Legends and Miracle Tales; Exhibit 1: Origins; Exhibit 2: Apparitions of Guanyin at the Tidal Sound Cave; Exhibit 3: The Miraculous Recovery of Mr. Wang; Exhibit 4: Zhu Jin "On Apparitions" (c. 1700); Conclusion; Chapter 4 Elements of Landscape: Stay, Copy, Move, and Vanish; Exhibit 1: Stay-The Tidal Sound Cave; Exhibit 2: Copy-Fayu Temple and Brahma Voice Cave; Exhibit 3: Move and Vanish-The Sudhana Cave; Conclusion |
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Chapter 5 People, BiographiesExhibit 1: Zhenxie Qingliao (1088-1151) as First Abbot of Mount Putuo; Exhibit 2: Huang Dalai (d. 1690) and Lan Li (1649-1720) as Patrons of the Early Qing Revival; Exhibit 3: Yitang Xinming (1655-1745) and Bie'an Xingtong (1661-1717) as Favored by the Kangxi Emperor; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Inscriptions; Exhibit 1: Shi Hao's Verse Inscription on a Vision of Guanyin (1148 ce); Exhibit 2: Zhou Yingbin's Inscription for the "Three Masters of the Inner Palace" (c. 1607) |
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Exhibit 3: Kangxi's Inscription "For the Fayu Temple on Mount Putuo in the Southern Sea" (1704)Exhibit 4: Sun Yat-sen: "An Unexpected Event on Mount Putuo" (1916); Conclusion; Chapter 7 The Poetic Landscape of Mount Putuo; Exhibit 1: Three Poems by Wu Lai (c. 1324); Exhibit 2: Tu Long's "Twelve Famous Views of Mount Putuo" (c. 1589); Exhibit 3: Zhou Yingbin's Poem for Abbot Rujiong (1607); Exhibit 4: The Twelve Views in Zhu Defeng's "The Famous Sights of Putuo" (1830); Conclusion; Chapter 8 Travelers and Pilgrims |
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Exhibit 1: Xu Jing's "Route Book of the Embassy sent to Koryō in the Xuanhe Era" (1123)Exhibit 2: Hou Jigao's "An Account of a Journey to Mount Putuo" (1588); Exhibit 3: Xiancheng's "Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage" (1826); Conclusion; Conclusion; Things Learned; Things Obscured; Conventions and Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
'Island of Guanyin' explores how Mount Putuo, one of the most popular Buddhist sites in China, has been depicted in a particular genre - the temple or mountain gazetteer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 20, 2022) |
| Subject |
Buddhist temples -- China -- Putuo Shan Island
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Buddhist temples.
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Travel.
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| SUBJECT |
Putuo Shan Island (China) -- Description and travel
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Putuo Shan Island (China) -- History
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| Subject |
China -- Putuo Shan Island.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190456214 |
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0190456213 |
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9780190456207 |
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0190456205 |
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