Boddhisatva – Buddhism – religion
A Song Dynasty statue of the boddhisatva Guanyin What is a boddhisatva? A boddhisatva, in Buddhist religion, was a holy man or woman. They were special, closer to God than other [...]
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Who was Guanyin? Chinese god
The god Guanyin, from the Liao Dynasty (about 1000 AD) Guanyin and the underworld Guanyin was a Chinese Buddhist god based on a real woman, the way Guanti was based on [...]
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Song Dynasty Chinese Art – Medieval China
Fan Kuan, "Traveling amid Streams and Mountains" (National Palace Museum, Taipei) Landscape painting got even better under the Song Dynasty than it had been under the T'ang Dynasty that came [...]
