Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Guanyin cult at Xiangshan monastery
  • The original story
  • Versions of the story to 1500
  • The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • Anatomy of the story
  • Interpretations
  • Appendix A: The Xiangshan monastery inscription
  • Appendix B: The versions by Zuxiu and Juelian
  • Appendix C: The mythical Oxford exhibition
  • Appendix D: Table of names and features in the story.