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Alice Poon:
Hi... Another question :) You said that Chen Yuanyuan took the Taoist name Yu An, but all I could find was “寂静”, I was just curious because I wanted to track down the Anfu Garden as I live not far from Kunming. Could you tell me the Chinese for the garden too, if it really exists? The only place I could find here associated with Chen Yuanyuan was 宏覺寺/三聖庵. Thanks!
Alice Poon
I read from a nonfiction book that Chen Yuanyuan at one time lived in a villa in Kunming built for her by Wu Sangui, called 安阜園 (Anfu Garden). Her 法名 at the Temple of Three Sages (三聖庵) was 寂靜, 又号玉庵禪師 (Yu An) (ref. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women (Qing Period: 1644 - 1911)).
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Alice Poon:
Hi Alice, in Green Phoenix I was wondering about the relationship between Dorgon and Bumbutai. How much historical evidence is there for it? Do the letters between them exist? Did Bumbutai really go to the retreat in the Kharahotun Mountains when she was 70, the site of Dorgon’s death? I know you said in the afterword there was no evidence for the marriage, I just wondered about the other parts of their relationship.
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