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.
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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.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 10x6x0; Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xii + 283 pages, black boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear but one corner slightly bumped, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket.
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Very Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION-VERY GOOD-HARDBACK-bookplate inside, light wear and grub marks to jacket, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK. Text in English, Multiple languages. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 298 p.
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