"Religious icons such as Mary in Christianity and Guanyin in Buddhism had deep roots in European and Chinese traditions. When the Jesuit missionaries came to China in the late 16th century, they represented Christianity as a different yet compatible religion to the native Chinese beliefs, first Buddhism and then Confucianism. Mary, the virgin mother of Christ and the principal saint of Christian Church, was one of the most appealing icons in Jesuits’ paintings and narratives. Though some Chinese expressed suspicion and even rejected Mary, many others tended to equate her with Guanyin, a popular Buddhist goddess in late Ming culture, largely because they two shared similar qualities such as compassion, purification, and child-giving power."
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Gang Song, "Between Bodhisattva and Christian Deity: Guanyin and the Virgin Mary in Late Ming China", The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: Goddess Traditions of Asia, Chapter: Six, Editors: Deepak Shimkhada and Phyllis K. Herman, (January 2008), pp 101-120.
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