Buddhism in Chinese History, Paperback - Arthur F. Wright

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Exciting investigations in northwest China are set to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, a portion of which was...

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DescriptionThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20...

Reducere. What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? Th...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jack Meng-Tat (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Histor...

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Reducere. China is both the world's oldest continuing civilization and an emerging global super power. Over the last two millennia, this rich and complex nat...

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First published in 1981, Chun-fang Yu's The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height unde...

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Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinping era. Usin...

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This study examines the changing role of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese in contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It analyzes how Tibetan B...

Reducere. DescriptionAhmad Sirhindi is considered one of the founding figures of the renowned Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi lineage. In this book, Sirhindi's pri...

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Jinyi ZhaiNumber of pages: 580Collection: Chinese Perspectives: HistoryPub...

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Reducere. Chinese Characteristics (1894) was the most widely read American work on China until Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (1931). It was the first to take u...

This is a collection of church registers and pastoral records of births, marriages and deaths in Cumberland County of the eighteenth century. Exist...

Professional English in Use Management with Answers - Arthur Mckeown, Ros Wright

DescriptionWhy is it that all of us want to be happy, and yet we continue experience and cause ourselves distress? Are there specific skills that t...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Richard F. NanceIllustration(s): 4 tablesNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 233 x...

DescriptionBuddhism is one of the oldest and largest of the world's religions. But it is also a tradition that has proven to have enormous contempo...

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Reducere. In the fourth century BC three conflicting points of view in Chinese philosophy received classic expression: the Taoist, the Confucianist, and the ...

Written by the leading authority on Theravada Buddhism, this up-dated edition takes into account recent research to include the controversies over ...

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Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced ...

Wayne Soon tells the global health story of Overseas Chinese who transformed medicine in China and Taiwan through the practices of military medicin...

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Reducere. Two-part fictitious story about terrorists in the US and China firing up WW III, with China attempting to destroy the USA without setting foot on t...

In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union...

The Christian church confesses "one baptism." But the church's answers to how, whom and when to baptize, and even what it means or does, are famous...

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Reducere. Drawing on over three decades of study and practice, Chuan Zhi, an ordained monk in the Chinese Linji tradition, takes us on a fascinating journey ...

Reducere. How and when did the many schools of Buddhism emerge? How does the historical figure of Siddartha Guatama relate to the many teachings that are pre...

Reducere. Arthur Waley s brilliant and definitive translation of one of the foremost of all mystical books, Lao Tzu s Tao Te Ching, has become a modern class...

Fo Guang Shan, "Buddha's Light Mountain", is a Buddhist movement which stands in the Chinese tradition of Mahayana Buddhism and more specifically i...

The world's preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Paul (Professor of History, Professor of History, Clark University) RoppIllustration(s): 20 black ...

Reducere. The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy.Writt...