{"id":661,"date":"2014-09-24T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=661"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:24:30","slug":"image-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/24\/image-8\/","title":{"rendered":"8. White-robed Guanyin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inscribed by Quanshi Zongle (1318\u20131391), China, Ming dynasty, late 14th century; hanging scroll, ink on paper; image: 36 x 12 7\/8 in., mount: 70 x 17 5\/8 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edward Elliott Family Collection, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1982, 1982.3.3, photo: www.metmuseum.org.<\/p>\n<p>In this nebulous, dematerialized landscape, <b>White-robed<\/b> <b>Guanyin<\/b> sits on a diamond-shaped boulder that evokes Mount<b> Potalaka<\/b>, the <b><i>bodhisattva<\/i><\/b>\u2019s <b>Pure Land<\/b>. Male face and female hairstyle add ambiguity to the depiction, exemplifying the equivocal nature of <b>Avalokiteshvara<\/b>\u2019s morphology. The inscribed poem makes references to Indian <b>Sanskrit<\/b> texts, specifically the <b><i>Avatamsaka Sutra<\/i><\/b> and <b><i>Heart Sutra<\/i><\/b>, in which Avalokiteshvara demonstrates his wisdom. He recognizes that \u201cThe body is as small as specks of dust and as ephemeral,\u201d yet also that everything is vast and interconnected. Within this matrix, the <i>bodhisattva<\/i> extends compassion to all. Curiously, the inscription is written from left to right, which is rare in Chinese calligraphy but sometimes appears in <b>Chan<\/b> poems like this one. JS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inscribed by Quanshi Zongle (1318\u20131391), China, Ming dynasty, late 14th century; hanging scroll, ink on paper; image: 36 x 12 7\/8 in., mount: 70 x 17 5\/8 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edward Elliott Family Collection, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1982, 1982.3.3, photo: www.metmuseum.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[69126],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-image_8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}