Marcus Bingenheimer

Island of Guanyin

Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch, Polyglott
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780190456191
• ISBN-10: 0190456191
• Artikelnr.: 47865374

Autorenporträt

Marcus Bingenheimer is Assistant Professor of Religion at Temple University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: "We Confucians" - Prefaces and Postscripts
Chapter 2: Landscape and Map - Visual Representations of Mount Putuo
Chapter 3: Foundation Legends and Miracle Tales
Chapter 4: Elements of Landscape: Stay, Copy, Move and Vanish
Chapter 5: People, Biographies
Chapter 6: Inscriptions
Chapter 7: The Poetic Landscape of Mount Putuo
Chapter 8: Travelers and Pilgrims
In Conclusion
Conventions and Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index