. Guide leaflet. n the hps of count-less mothers: Great mercy, great pity,save from misery, save from evil, broad,great, efficacious, responsive Kwan YinBuddha. Whenever one finds six little men andtwo women carvedin jade be sure thatthey are the famousEight Immortals ofTaoism. These leg-endary charactersprobably at onetime actually lived,at least we have ex-cellent reasons toregard some of themas historical person-ages. According tovery old Taoist leg-ends all of theEight became im-mortal and eachmay be recognizedby some article thathe or she wears orcarries, as the crutchand gourd full ofmag
. Guide leaflet. n the hps of count-less mothers: Great mercy, great pity,save from misery, save from evil, broad,great, efficacious, responsive Kwan YinBuddha. Whenever one finds six little men andtwo women carvedin jade be sure thatthey are the famousEight Immortals ofTaoism. These leg-endary charactersprobably at onetime actually lived,at least we have ex-cellent reasons toregard some of themas historical person-ages. According tovery old Taoist leg-ends all of theEight became im-mortal and eachmay be recognizedby some article thathe or she wears orcarries, as the crutchand gourd full ofmagic medicines ofLi Tich-Kuai, or themagic feather fanwith which Chung-liCh uan fans the soulsof those who are tobe immortalized backinto their of the EightImmortals are de-picted alone, asChang-Kuo who isshown seated on hismarvelous donkey,which folds up like apiece of paper whennot in use, and hisbundle of magic rods, with w^hichwrought all manner of necromancy. Chinese legend relates that long ago in. THE LOTUS An open carving in white jade showing the lotus, one of the eight auspicious signs, growing from a vase formed from one of its own pods. Whitlock Collection
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