P'eng-lai
See also: Penglai and Pénglái
English
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 蓬萊／蓬莱 (Pénglái) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻeng²-lai².
Proper noun
P'eng-lai
- Alternative form of Penglai
- 1966, Holmes Welch, Taoism: The Parting of the Way, Beacon Press, page 101:
- Li Shao-chün not only promised the Emperor immortality after seeing P'eng-lai, but he said that he himself had been to P'eng-lai.
- 1980, Sweet and Sour, New York: Clarion Books, →ISBN, LCCN 78-24349, OCLC 23036037, page 10:
- 'The Pointing Finger' is one of many Taoist tales about the Eight Immortals whose fabled home was the magical island of P'eng-lai.
- 2012, Teresa Moorey, Understand Chinese mythology, →ISBN, page 3:
- The second strand features such personages as the Hsi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West, and places such as the Isles of P'eng-lai in the east.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:P'eng-lai.
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Translations
Penglai — see Penglai
Anagrams
- apeling, leaping, pealing, pleaing