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Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 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, →OCLC, 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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