P'eng-lai

See also: Penglai and Pénglái

English

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.

Translations

Penglai — see Penglai

Anagrams

apeling, leaping, pealing, pleaing

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