Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbe Huc exclaimed: ?There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entert
The goddess Guanyin began in India as the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, originally a male deity. He gradually became indigenized as a female deity in China over the span of nearly a millennium. By the M
