{"id":663,"date":"2014-09-24T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=663"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:24:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:24:39","slug":"image-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/24\/image-9\/","title":{"rendered":"9. White-robed Kannon (Pandaravasini Avalokiteshvara)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Muromachi period, late 14th century; hanging scroll, ink on silk; image: 37 15\/16 x 19 3\/8 in., mount: 73 1\/4 x 23 15\/16 in.; Princeton University Art Museum, Gift of Duane Wilder, Class of 1951, y1992-6, photo: Bruce M. White, Courtesy of Princeton University Art Museum\/Art Resource, NY.<\/p>\n<p><b>Zen<\/b> <b>Buddhist<\/b> artists often depicted the <b>White-robed<\/b> <b>Kannon<\/b> in works such as this one, which shows the willow branch, vase, and waterfall that are among the <b><i>bodhisattva<\/i>\u2019<\/b>s most common attributes in East Asia. As seen here, these depictions are set on <b>Potalaka<\/b>, Kannon\u2019s mythical island, which took local form in places such as <b>Mount Putuo<\/b> in China and <b>Nachi<\/b> in Japan. The figure at bottom left is <b>Sudhana<\/b>, a pilgrim from the <b><i>Avatamsaka Sutra<\/i><\/b>, who travels to see many wise figures, including <b>Avalokiteshvara<\/b>, for teachings on enlightenment.\u00a0 Dressed in voluminous white robes and reposing at ease in an idyllic landscape, the <i>bodhisattva<\/i> appears here as a model for contemplative wisdom. LK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Muromachi period, late 14th century; hanging scroll, ink on silk; image: 37 15\/16 x 19 3\/8 in., mount: 73 1\/4 x 23 15\/16 in.; Princeton University Art Museum, Gift of Duane Wilder, Class of 1951, y1992-6, photo: Bruce M. White, Courtesy of Princeton University Art Museum\/Art Resource, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[69127],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-image_9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}