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Author Bryson, Megan, author

Title Goddess on the frontier : religion, ethnicity, and gender in southwest China / Megan Bryson
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
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Contents Introduction : religion, ethnicity and gender in Dali -- Baijie's background : religion and representation in the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms -- Holy consort white sister : Baijie Shengfei and Dali-kingdom Buddhism -- Little white sister : Baijie Amei, dragons, and kingship in Ming Dali -- Lady of cypress chastity : Baijie Furen in the Ming and Qing -- Baijie the benzhu : village religion in contemporary Dali -- Conclusion : ethnicity and gender in the cult of the goddess Baijie
Summary This work follows the transformations of the goddess Baijie, a deity worshiped in the Dali region of southwest China's Yunnan Province, to understand how local identities developed in a Chinese frontier region from the twelfth century to the twenty-first
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 7, 2016)
Subject Baijie (Buddhist deity) -- Cult -- History
SUBJECT Baijie (Buddhist deity) fast
Subject Buddhist goddesses -- China -- Dali Baizu Zizhizhou -- History
Buddhism -- China -- Dali Baizu Zizhizhou -- History
Ethnicity -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Bai (Chinese people) -- Religion
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Ethnicity -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhist goddesses
Cults
Religion
Buddhismus
Ethnizität
Geschlechterforschung
SUBJECT Dali Baizu Zizhizhou (China) -- Religion
Subject China -- Dali Baizu Zizhizhou
China
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503600454
1503600459