{"id":659,"date":"2014-09-24T15:14:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=659"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:24:23","slug":"image-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/24\/image-7\/","title":{"rendered":"7. Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China, Tang dynasty, late 7th\u20138th century; gilt leaded bronze, piece-mold cast; H. 9 1\/6 in.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1933, 33.91, photo: www.metmuseum.org.<\/p>\n<p>This small gilt-bronze Chinese sculpture probably once stood on a home altar, the object of private worship. It is <b>Guanyin<\/b>\u2014a Chinese manifestation of <b>Avalokiteshvara<\/b>\u2014and its iconography derives from India. <b>Amitabha<\/b> sits on the <b><i>bodhisattva<\/i><\/b>\u2019s crown, and the figure carries his typical ambrosial vase. Yet the Chinese <i>bodhisattva<\/i> departs stylistically from South Asian precedents. Indian versions of Avalokiteshvara are weighty and firmly situated on the earth. In contrast, Guanyin\u2019s thin, animated scarves lend the figure a light, diaphanous quality. This transforms the <i>bodhisattva<\/i> into a more ethereal being, who\u2014by the Tang<b> <\/b>dynasty (618-907)\u2014plays an important role in Chinese <b>Buddhism<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, Tang dynasty, late 7th\u20138th century; gilt leaded bronze, piece-mold cast; H. 9 1\/6 in.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1933, 33.91, photo: www.metmuseum.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[69125],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-image_7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}