Arts of Asia Lecture Series Fall 2017 Art on the Move Across Asia and Beyond – Part I Sponsored by The Society for Asian Art The Many Faces of Compassion: Avalokiteshvara in Asian Buddhism

Denise Patry Leidy, Ph.D. Yale University Art Gallery

September 15, 2017

Sanskrit: Avalokiteśvara/Avalokiteshvara

Chinese Guanyin, Korean Gwaneum, Japanese Kannon, Tibetan Chenrezik

Pan-Asian Manifestations of Avalokiteshvara:

Lotus Bearer

Eleven-headed

Thousand-hands

Wish Granting Jewel and Wheel

Unerring Lasso

Horse’s Head

East-Asian Manifestations of Avalokiteshvara:

Water Moon

White Robed

Giver of Sons

Fish basket

Suggested bibliography:

Chutiwongs, Nandana, The Iconography of Avalokiteshvara in Mainland Southeast Asia, New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2002.

Divakaran, Odile, “Avalokiteśvara – from the North-West to the Western Caves,” East and West 39 (1989): 145 – 78.

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Fowler, Sherry, Accounts and Images of the Six Kannon in Japan, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016.

Holt, John, Buddha in the Crown: Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Huntington, Susan and John Huntington, Leaves from the Bodhi Tree: The Art of Pala India and Its International Legacy, Dayton: Dayton Art Institute and University of Washington Press, 1991.

Kannon: Divine Compassion: early Buddhist Art from Japan, Zurich: Rietberg Museum, 2007.

Leidy, Denise Patry, The Art of Buddhism: An Introduction to Its History and Meaning, Boston and London: Shambhala, 2008.

Leidy, Denise Patry, “Avalokiteshvara in Sixth-Century China,” in The Flowering of a Foreign Faith: New Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art, edited by Janet Baker, Mumbai, 1998: 88 – 103.

Leoshko, Janice, “The Appearance of Amoghapasa in Pala Period Art,” in Studies in the Buddhist Art of South Asia, edited by A. K. Narain, New Delhi: Kanaka Publication, 1985: 127 – 139.

Neville, Tove E, Eleven-headed Avalokiteśvara: Chenresigs, Kuan-yin or Kannon Bodhisattva: its origins and iconography, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1989.

Murase, Miyeko, “Kuan-yin as the Savoir of Men: Illustrations of the Twenty-Fifth Chapter of the Lotus Sutra,” Artibus Asiae 33 (1971): 39 – 74.

Yü Chün-fang, Kuan-yin: the Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteśvara, New York: Columbia University

Press, 2001.

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