Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance ...

Across East Asia, few figures are as recognizable — and revered — as Guanyin, or the Goddess of Mercy. In Disney+'s American Born Chinese, adapted from Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel of the ...

Dir: Ann Hui. China. 2004. 109mins.A word of warning for viewers of a nervous disposition: there is precious little mercy in this lifetime for anyone, especially the men, connected with the ...

The jewelry bears the sign of Roman goddess of the moon Luna and was probably worn for protection.

"Nanjing Requiem" is a tragedy on two levels: the mass scale of the wartime atrocities and the individual scale of a woman who rejects being labeled as a goddess but cannot forgive herself for ...

Dancers open their arms to resemble the thousand-handed Goddess of Mercy at a dance drama performance at the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater in Jiading on May 25. [Photo/jiading.gov.cn] ...

View Three woodblock prints from the series The Sutra of Kannon, Compassionate Goddess of Mercy Kannonkyo hangakan by Shiko Munakata on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Shiko Munakata.

Story at a glance The Buddhist goddess Kannon, or Kanzeon Bosatsu, is known as the goddess of mercy and compassion. A Japanese temple placed a custom-made face mask on a statue of the goddess to ...

Guan Yin descends from the heavens on a lotus flower. In a white robe, the Goddess of Mercy is surrounded by a soft, golden light. She dips a sprig of willow in a vase and sprinkles holy water ...

Down a gravel road, on the grounds of a Vietnamese Buddhist temple, the statue of a female figure rises 30 feet tall. Her name is Bodhisattva Quan Am. A bodhisattva is an enlightened being who ...

A dance drama named Thousand-handed Goddess of Mercy is put on at the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater in the city's Jiading district on May 25. [Photo/jiading.gov.cn] A splendid dance drama named ...