ID: 901002251 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002251	Record Type: Character/Person

	Tien-How (Buddhist character)

Note: Originally a Taoist divinity, the queen of heaven wordhiped in China as mother of Buddha, conceived miraculously.

Names:

	Tien-How (Buddhist character) (preferred,English-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
		........<Buddhist characters> (P)
		............Tien-How (Buddhist character) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... character (person by activity)
	.....(people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... mother
	.....(parents, ancestors (family relationships), people by family relationship, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Buddhist
	.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Tien-How (Buddhist character)
	................Casanowicz, Buddhist Art in US National Museum (1921)