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    Mulian Rescues His Mother or Mulian Saves His Mother From Hell is a popular Chinese Buddhist tale first attested in a Dunhuang manuscript dating to the...
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    Zhizhen [zh] (鄭之珍; 1518–1595), a native of Qimen County, wrote the opera Mulian Rescues His Mother According to local legend, Zheng was blind when he wrote the opera...
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  • influence on Chinese culture. For example, the 3rd century parable Mulian Rescues His Mother adapts a Buddhist fable to show Confucian values of filial piety...
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    in the Dunhuang bianwen manuscripts. Popular stories include Mulian Rescues His Mother, which originated in India but was made into a Chinese legend...
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    Song dramas. Buddhist stories such as Mulian Rescues His Mother became themes in plays, and the one on Mulian was the first Chinese drama of great length...
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    offerings to the Saṅgha became widely known through the story of Mulian Rescues His Mother. The yearly festival which refers to this story is widely celebrated...
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    developing from the legend Mulian Rescues His Mother. in which the bodhisattva savior Mulian who had discovered his mother paying for her sinful ways...
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    Wanli era was Zheng Zhizhen, who adapted the popular story Mulian Rescues His Mother (Mulian jiu mu xing xiao xi wen) into a theatrical form. Of Shen Jing's...
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    the Buddha's disciples and the protagonist of the Chinese tale Mulian Rescues His Mother Meng Po, a deity who serves souls a potion that makes them forget...
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    tale of a son rescuing his sinful mother from her subterranean prison is the story of Mulian Rescues His Mother. In this narrative, Mulian successfully...
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    combining prose and poetry. Popular legends in this style included Mulian Rescues His Mother, in which a monk descends into hell in a show of filial piety...
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    story separately became a Chinese legend or folk tale known as "Mulian Rescues His Mother". "Stories of the departed", tr Henry S. Gehman, in Minor Anthologies...
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    Bon Festival in Japan. Dana (Buddhism) Filial piety in Buddhism Mulian Rescues His Mother, a Chinese legend concerning Maudgalyayana Petavatthu Transfer...
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  • Compounds Mucalinda Mudita Mudra Muho Noelke Mūlapariyāya Sutta Mulian Rescues His Mother Muragala Buddhist music Musō Soseki Muyan Myadaung Monastery Myōe...
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  • of the Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven The Precious Scroll of Mulian Rescuing his Mother in Three Rebirths Berezkin, Rostislav (2013). "The Transformation...
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    Maudgalyayana (redirect from Mulian)
    story developed a new emphasis. There Maudgalyāyana was known as "Mulian", and his story was taught in a mixture of religious instruction and entertainment...
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    Ho – 18 October 1977 (R on LD & VCD ; OUT OF PRINT) A Rescue From Hades (Mulian Saves His Mother) – release date unknown 15 Female Warriors of the Sa Family...
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