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She offers treatments out of her private practice, Kwan Yin Medicine, as well as out of the acupuncture clinic located near Earth Fare in Asheville NC. This Kwan Yin narrator/Monkey King protagonist tension is also meta-discursively presented in a counter-revenge episode of "Monkey fights Kwan Yin" taken from The Journey to the West: "He picked Kwan Yin up from the mantelpiece, and shook her, shook himself as if she were doing it, bonked himself on the head with her, and disappeared, yanked, behind the chalkboard" (256). The Blessed Virgin is simply the Christian avatar of the ancient mother goddess, who lives on in Buddhism as Kwan Yin and in Hinduism as Parvati, Lakshmi, and Kali. |
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