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Quán Thế Âm of the Transpacific |
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| Author |
Truitt, Allison (著)
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| Source |
Journal of Vietnamese Studies
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| Volume | v.12 n.2 Spring |
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| Date | 2017 |
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| Pages | 83 - 107 |
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| Publisher | University of California Press |
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http://journals.ucpress.edu
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| Location | Chicago, IL, US [芝加哥, 伊利諾伊州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Special Issue on Globalizing Vietnamese Religions |
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| Keyword | religion; Buddhism; refugee; bodhisattva; transpacific |
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| Abstract | Bodhisattvas are an essential element of the Pure Land branch of Mahayana Buddhism practiced in Vietnam and its diaspora. Many Vietnamese lovingly refer to Bodhisattva Quán Thế Âm as a “gentle mother,” and the circulation of her name and image constitutes a spiritual geography of the transpacific in distinctly Buddhist terms. Through a reading of two miracle tales, I argue that Quán Thế Âm mediates the divergent histories of Vietnamese refugees without dissolving the historical structures of difference that separate the diaspora from the homeland. Devotion to the bodhisattva should thus not be seen only in terms of Mahayana doctrine but also as the embodiment of an alternative ethics of how Vietnamese refugees make sense of their place in the aftermath of war. |
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| Table of contents | Quán Thế Âm and the Transmission of Mahayana Buddhism 85
Transpacific Crossings 88
The Statue Who Refused to Cross 92
Quán Thế Âm in the Aftermath of War 96
Conclusion 100
Abstract 103
Notes 103 |
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| ISSN | 1559372X (P); 15593738 (E) |
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| Hits | 61 |
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| Created date | 2023.11.10 |
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| Modified date | 2023.11.10 |
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