[Buddha-l] Is Guanyin Catholic?

[jkirk]

See:
Lauren Arnold. Princely Gifts & Papal Treasures: The Franciscan Mission to 
China & Its Influence on the Art of the West, 1250-1350. Desiderata Press, 
1999. (AMAZON.COM)

Joanna
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> Buddha-Lites,
>
> On February 16, 2005 the Ricci Institute presented "Guadalupe and Guanyin: 
> Images of
> the Madonna in Mexico and China" as part of its ongoing public lecture 
> series. At this
> event, two keynote speakers, Ms. Lauren Arnold and Prof. Tom Lucas, S.J. 
> invited the
> audience to explore the impact of missionary Christianity on traditional 
> cultures in pre-
> modern Mexico and China through a visual art history presentation. As the 
> edited
> transcripts reveal, this often-turbulent spiritual contact with European 
> Christian culture and
> imagery resulted in the emergence of two very important ethnographic 
> versions of the
> Virgin Mary: Guadalupe and Guanyin. In the presentations below, Arnold and 
> Lucas trace
> the evolution of these compelling Marian images from medieval European 
> prototypes
> overlaid upon indigenous folk goddesses to fully developed Christian 
> devotional images of
> distinct and moving ethnicity.
>
> http://www.usfca.edu/ricci/events/lucas.pdf
>
> Is Arnold saying that Guanyin is a copy of Virgin Mary, or is it the other 
> way around, or perhaps they arose independently?
>
> Some local Guanyin Buddhists are somewhat confounded when they read this 
> article.
>
> Any expert or helpful comments on this?
>
> Piya
>
>
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