This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding : Kuan Yin / Kathy J. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Kathy J., author.

Contributor:

Singer, Joe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avalokiteśvara (Buddhist deity)--Poetry.

Avalokiteśvara.

Hawaii--Poetry.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 of a koan. An introduction examines Kuan Yin and her place in religion, legend, art, changing social prescriptions for gender, and the everyday lives of Hawaii’s people.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Wake

Kuan Yin is Mobbed by Reporters at Honolulu International Airport

Valley of the Temples, O'ahu

Crack Seed

Crush

There Was Some Debate

Kuan Yin Faces Charges

Kuan Yin Mingles with the Ghosts, Now on Guided Tour, of the Slave Population Which Constructed the Great Wall of China

Kuan Yin Turns Her Photo Album to a Certain Point

Columbia Glacier

The Grandmother

Kuan Yin in the Folds of an Old Letter

Kuan Yin at the Honolulu Academy of Arts

After Thirty Years

Lotus Hook

Kuan Yin Rides to the Hunt

Kuan Yin, Inventor

Some Days

Pent

Tozen's White-Robed Kannon

Ryozen's White-Robed Kannon

Lin Ruyi's White-Robed Kuan Yin

Narcissus on Chinese New Year (or: Kuan Yin Instructs the Student How to Change the Face of the World)

Problems in Taxonomy

Kuan Yin Takes the Long View

To Kuan Yin

While Kuan Yin Waits at the Airport

Kannon Submits to Freedom in the Tea Ceremony

This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding

Jellyfish

Cambodian Collage

Happy Land Ltd

Kannon Sweeps Up at the Mo'ili'ili Japanese Cemetery

Stuck at the Buddha's First Precept

Predictable Fire, 1911

Testimonial

Kannon Goes Bon Dancing

Statue of Kannon Brought Back by a Soldier

To Please a Buddha

Kuan Yin as the One Who Sees Sounds

Who Reads, Who Writes

It's Natural

Lesson in Ink

To a Working Mom Whose Babysitter Hasn't Shown Up

Outpatient in Hawai'i Thinks of Snow

On the Non-Duality of Dung and Deep Waters in a Brooklyn Museum

World Wide Web

The Named Is the Mother of Ten Thousand Things

Footnote to Vietnam War

The Thirty-Three Sites of Kannon

Mr. Alzheimer's

Holding On to a Bodhisattva

How Kuan Yin Loves

Kuan Yin Hears Cries

Buddha-Bodies

Photograph Sites

Acknowledgments

About the Author and Photographer

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

0-8248-4080-1

OCLC:

1024043980