This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding: Kuan Yin
(Part of the Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies Series)
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The bodhisattva Kuan Yin remains one of the most popular figures in Buddhism, loved and worshiped throughout Asia for over a millennium. She arrived in Hawaii with the first Chinese plantation workers, each of whom would have kept a rice paper print of her over a small altar in his room. In this delightful book, Kathy Phillips and Joseph Singer celebrate Kuan Yin's many incarnations in words and images that exhibit humor, poignancy, and the open-endedness...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824827570
ISBN13:9780824827571
Release Date:June 2004
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.6"
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