[Buddha-l] How male Avalokiteshwara in China became female child-giving Guanyin

[jkirk]

Forwarded by Joanna.
A very interesting article. There were other Guanyins, but the one under 
consideration here is the form known as "child-giving" where she holds a 
child on her lap, a form that only appeared after 1400CE, some time after 
Franciscans had imported icons of the Virgin with child.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lauren Arnold  laurenarnold at cs.com
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: New online article available


Hello all--
    Just a quick note to say hello again as the academic year begins, and to 
send along a small scholastic offering--  
http://www.usfca.edu/ricci/events/lauren.pdf   . This is the online version 
of a public lecture I gave here at the Ricci Institute at USF last February, 
on the Franciscan contribution to the image of Child-giving Guanyin. The 
lecture is in PDF format, so it can be printed as a hard copy in article 
form if you wish, or easily passed on to other colleagues as the case may 
be-- a nice economy afforded by the internet, I think.  The Ricci website 
has a number of other interesting offerings, both current and archival--  
hope you give them a visit as well.
With warm regards
Lauren Arnold
Research Associate
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
University of San Francisco