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The legend of Miaoshan / Glen Dudbridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dudbridge, Glen.
- Series:
- Oxford Oriental monographs
- Oxford oriental monographs
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miaoshan (Legendary character).
- Miaoshan.
- Buddhist legends--China.
- Buddhist legends.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 159 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- Appendix A: Jian Zhiqi's inscription in Chinese; Appendix B is the English translation.
- Summary:
- The tale of a devout Buddhist girl who separates from her family and through suffering and death finally achieves divine status is a myth of religious celibacy, of filial piety, and of ritual salvation of the dead. It also presents a major symbol of the tension in women's lives between individual spiritual fulfillment and the imperatives of family duty. This is a new edition of the first full study of this important and influential Chinese legend.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: London: Ithaca, 1978.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-154) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199266719
- OCLC:
- 53963005
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