Word: kuan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almond-eyed lady in a flowing kimono. A Maori artist decked her in a long grass skirt. African carvers made her a Negro, often barebreasted, sometimes put heavy coils of beads round her neck. Indo-Chinese versions of the Madonna were apt to resemble the Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan...
...Monsignor Costantini, all that seems right and proper. European artists, too, had often represented the saints as being of their own race, place and period. The Buddhist goddess Kuan Yin, he explains, had many of the same virtues that Christians revere in the Madonna: purity, motherhood and the understanding of sorrows. He also approved of Hindu representations of Christ that looked like the god Siva, "because Siva is a highly spirtualized deity. But we do object to Christ being represented in the guise of Buddha, since Buddha is worshiped...