This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding: Kuan Yin 9780824840808

The bodhisattva Kuan Yin remains one of the most popular figures in Buddhism, loved and worshiped throughout Asia for ov

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English Pages 168 Year 2004

Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Wake
Kuan Yin is Mobbed by Reporters at Honolulu International Airport
Valley of the Temples, O‘ahu
Crack Seed
Crush
There Was Some Debate
Kuan Yin Faces Charges
Kuan Yin Mingles with the Ghosts, Now on Guided Tour, of the Slave Population Which Constructed the Great Wall of China
Kuan Yin Turns Her Photo Album to a Certain Point
Columbia Glacier
The Grandmother
Kuan Yin in the Folds of an Old Letter
Kuan Yin at the Honolulu Academy of Arts
After Thirty Years
Lotus Hook
Kuan Yin Rides to the Hunt
Kuan Yin, Inventor
Some Days
Pent
Tozen’s White-Robed Kannon
Ryozen’s White-Robed Kannon
Lin Ruyi’s White-Robed Kuan Yin
Narcissus on Chinese New Year (or: Kuan Yin Instructs the Student How to Change the Face of the World)
Problems in Taxonomy
Kuan Yin Takes the Long View
To Kuan Yin
While Kuan Yin Waits at the Airport
Kannon Submits to Freedom in the Tea Ceremony
This Isn’t a Picture I’m Holding
Jellyfish
Cambodian Collage
Happy Land Ltd
Kannon Sweeps Up at the Mo‘ili‘ili Japanese Cemetery
Stuck at the Buddha’s First Precept
Predictable Fire, 1911
Testimonial
Kannon Goes Bon Dancing
Statue of Kannon Brought Back by a Soldier
To Please a Buddha
Kuan Yin as the One Who Sees Sounds
Who Reads, Who Writes
It’s Natural
Lesson in Ink
To a Working Mom Whose Babysitter Hasn’t Shown Up
Outpatient in Hawai‘i Thinks of Snow
On the Non-Duality of Dung and Deep Waters in a Brooklyn Museum
World Wide Web
The Named Is the Mother of Ten Thousand Things
Footnote to Vietnam War
The Thirty-Three Sites of Kannon
Mr. Alzheimer’s
Holding On to a Bodhisattva
How Kuan Yin Loves
Kuan Yin Hears Cries
Buddha-Bodies
Photograph Sites
Acknowledgments
About the Author and Photographer

This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding: Kuan Yin
9780824840808