Island of Guanyin : Mount Putuo and its gazetteers /

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 k...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Bingenheimer, Marcus
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Zusammenfassung:
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."" Following the structure of a gazetteer, this book shows how this Buddhist sacred site has been constructed through textual records in variety of genres.
Umfang:
1 online resource (305 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-061415-3
0-19-045621-3
0-19-045620-5
Schlagworte:
Buddhist temples > China > Putuo Shan Island.
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