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The dragon king's daughter presents her priceless jewel to the Buddha; frontispiece of a 12th-century Lotus Sutra handscroll in the "Heike Nokyo". [ 3 ] Longnü is depicted in the 12th Chapter of the Lotus Sūtra (Skt. Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra ) as being full of wisdom and achieving instant enlightenment.
Xiaolongnü (小龍女; Xiǎolóngnǚ) is the fictional female protagonist of the wuxia novel The Return of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong.In the novel, her physical appearances is described as follows: "skin as white as snow, beautiful and elegant beyond convention and cannot be underestimated, but appears cold and indifferent". [1]
Avalokiteśvara with Longnü (left) and Sudhana (right). Sudhanakumāra (simplified Chinese: 善财童子; traditional Chinese: 善財童子; pinyin: Shàncáitóngzǐ; Wade–Giles: Shan 4-ts'ai 2 T'ung 2-tsŭ 3), mainly known as Sudhana and Shancai or Shancai Tongzi in Chinese, and translated as Child of Wealth, along with Longnü "Dragon Girl" are considered acolytes of the bodhisattva ...
At 40 centimetres (16 in) long, the skull of Lishulong is larger than any other sauropodomorph from the Lufeng Formation. The cervical vertebrae are very large and elongated; the centrum of the first preserved cervical vertebra (the axis) is 16.3 centimetres (6.4 in) long, and the centrum of the last preserved cervical vertebra (the tenth consecutive bone in the series) is 19.9 centimetres (7. ...
The love story between Han Xiangzi and Dragon Girl (Longnu) is a famous folktale in China [9] and has been adapted to many television series as well as opera. It was said that one day Han Xiangzi visited the East Sea and played his flute on the shore. The 7th daughter of the Dragon King was curious to the beautiful melody and emerged from the sea.
Longmu's historic name was Wen Shi [1] (溫氏).She was born in 290 BC (during the Qin dynasty) in Guangdong province, near the Xi River (西江).Her family's ancestral home was in the Teng County (藤縣) in Guangxi province.
Dragon bones have been prescribed in Chinese medicine since at least the Shennong Bencaojing, composed circa 100 AD. [9] There is historical discussion regarding the origin of long gu recorded in the Bencao Gangmu , which compiles a wide variety of Chinese medical sources.
Dragon of Hayk: Symbol of Hayk Nahapet and Haykaznuni dynasty in Armenia. Usually depicted as seven-headed serpent. Levantine dragons Yam: The god of the sea in the Canaanite pantheon from Levantine mythology. Lotan: A demonic dragon reigning the waters, a servant of the sea god Yam defeated by the storm god Hadad-Baʿal in the Ugaritic Baal Cycle.