{"id":12665,"date":"2025-12-19T22:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=12665"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:58:22","slug":"quan-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/12\/quan-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Quan Am"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Avalokiteshvara is a Buddhist deity with multiple identities, some of which I outlined in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2015\/09\/kuan-yin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an earlier post<\/a>. In Vietnam, this deity appears as Quan Am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1680-504x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Sculpture of a female figure seated in lotus position.\" class=\"wp-image-12666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1680-504x1024.jpeg 504w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1680-148x300.jpeg 148w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1680-768x1560.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1680-756x1536.jpeg 756w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1680.jpeg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 85vw, 504px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">White-robed Quan Am, marble, Walters Art Museum, acc. no. 25.69.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This sculpture, carved in Vietnam in the nineteenth century, portrays Quan Am attired in a white robe. So it is that here Avalokiteshvara manifests both as Vietnamese, and as the White Robed Bodhisatva of Compassion \u2014 showing how one deity&#8217;s manifestations can be shaped both by theological concerns, and by regional or national identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avalokiteshvara is a Buddhist deity with multiple identities, some of which I outlined in an earlier post. In Vietnam, this deity appears as Quan Am. This sculpture, carved in Vietnam in the nineteenth century, portrays Quan Am attired in a white robe. So it is that here Avalokiteshvara manifests both as Vietnamese, and as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/12\/quan-am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quan Am&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[52,509,510,1140],"class_list":["post-12665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-buddhism","tag-deities","tag-guanyin","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12667,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions\/12667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}