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The legend of Miao-shan

The tale of a devout Buddhist girl who separates from her family and through suffering and death finally achieves divine status is a myth of religious celibacy, of filial piety, and of ritual salvation of the dead. It also presents a major symbol of the tension in women's lives between individual spiritual fulfilment and the imperatives of family duty. This is a new edition of the first full study of this important and influential Chinese legend. - ;In Chinese legend, the princess Miaoshan defied her father by refusing to marry, and pursued her austere religious vocation to the death, but retu.

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  • "The tale of a devout Buddhist girl who separates from her family and through suffering and death finally achieves divine status is a myth of religious celibacy, of filial piety, and of ritual salvation of the dead. It also presents a major symbol of the tension in women's lives between individual spiritual fulfilment and the imperatives of family duty. This is a new edition of the first full study of this important and influential Chinese legend. - ;In Chinese legend, the princess Miaoshan defied her father by refusing to marry, and pursued her austere religious vocation to the death, but retu."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Llibres electrònics"
  • "Ressources Internet"

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  • "Miaoshan chuanshuo : Guanyin pusa yuanqi kao"
  • "Miaoshan chuan shuo : guan yin ʻu sa yuan qi kao"
  • "妙善傅說 : 觀音菩薩緣起考"
  • "The legend of Miao-shan"
  • "The legend of Miao-shan"@en
  • "The legend of Miaoshan"
  • "The legend of Miaoshan"@en
  • "The Legend of Miao-shan"
  • "The Legend of Miaoshan"
  • "The Legend of Miaoshan Revised Edition"@en
  • "Miao shan chuan shuo : Guanyinpu sa yuan qi kao"
  • "Hsi-yu chi, a study of antecedents to the sixteenth-century chinese novel The Legend of Miao-shan"
  • "妙善傳說 : 觀音菩薩緣起考"
  • "Miao shan chuan shuo : guan yin pu sa yuan qi kao"

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