{"id":717,"date":"2014-09-29T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=717"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:26:01","slug":"practice-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/29\/practice-22\/","title":{"rendered":"22. Page from the Illustrated Miracles of Kannon, Gold Inscribed Kannon Chapter of the Lotus Sutra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Edo period, 1615\u20131868; silk, ink, and gold; 14 1\/2 x 13 1\/2 in.; The Newark Museum, Purchase 1909 George T. Rockwell Collection,\u00a0\u00a09.2313.<\/p>\n<p>Painted in ink and highlighted with gold, this painting vividly depicts <b>Kannon<\/b> saving a gentleman falling off the mountain and threatened by deadly spikes below. The <b><i>bodhisattva<\/i>\u2019s<\/b> calm demeanor contrasts with the violent attitude of the glowering villain standing at the precipice. This illustration belongs to a volume of the <i>Kannon Chapter<\/i><b><i> <\/i><\/b>in the<b><i> Lotus Sutra<\/i><\/b>, one of the most influential texts in East Asia. This scripture describes Kannon\u2019s superior ability to transform into thirty-three different forms and save a wide range of suffering people. The extremely elongated arm emphasizes the accessibility and supernatural power of Kannon, the \u201cBestower of Fearlessness.\u201d MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Edo period, 1615\u20131868; silk, ink, and gold; 14 1\/2 x 13 1\/2 in.; The Newark Museum, Purchase 1909 George T. Rockwell Collection,  9.2313.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[69149],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice","tag-practice_3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}