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Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (the Oriental Library).
Author: Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (the Oriental Library)
Author: Tōyō Bunko (Japan). KenkyūbuPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Memoirs of the Research Department
Author: Tōyō Bunko (Japan)The Chinese Painter Muqi
Author: Hiromitsu OgawaDr. G. E. Morrison and the Toyo Bunko
Author: Kazuo EnokiPublisher:
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Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Islam and Chinese Society
Author: Jianxiong MaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000047458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims, known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity. It shows how over time Chinese Muslims adopted Chinese practices as these evolved in wider Chinese society, practices such as constructing and recording patrilinear lineages, spreading genealogies, and propagating education and Confucian teaching, in the case of the Hui through the use of Chinese texts in the teaching of Islam at mosques. The book also examines much else, including the system of certification of mosques, the development of Sufi orders, the cultural adaptation of Islam at the local level, and relations between Islam and Confucianism, between the state and local communities, and between the educated Muslim elite and the Confucian literati. Overall, the book shows how extensively Chinese Muslims have been deeply integrated within a multi-cultural Chinese society.
Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History
Author: Hubert Michael SeiwertPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004131460
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Annotation In rough chronological order from antiquity to the 19th century, Seiwert (comparative religion, Leipzig U.) identifies and describes religious communities and movements outside the official religion. For the period before the Ming dynasty, he looks at prophecies and messianism in Han Confucianism, popular sects and the early Daoist tradition, heterodox movements in medieval Buddhism, and popular sectarianism during the Song and Yuan dynasties. He devotes the second half of the book to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Ma Xisha (world religions, Chinese Academy for the Social Sciences) collaborated on the work. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology
Author: Kern InstitutePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400962711
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko
Author: Tōyō Bunko (Japan)The Dalai Lama and the Nechung Oracle
Author: Christopher BellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197533353
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
"This book is about two immortals whose friendship has spanned nearly five hundred years across the Tibetan plateau and beyond. The first immortal is the Dalai Lama, the emanation of a bodhisattva, an enlightened being who voluntarily takes rebirth in the world to benefit sentient beings. The second immortal is a wrathful god named Pehar, who has possessed the Nechung Oracle since the sixteenth century. This book is the first to examine the relationship between these two monolithic figures that began in the seventeenth century during the reign of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682). This study is also the first extensive examination of the famed Nechung Oracle and his institution. In the seventeenth century, the protector deity Pehar and his oracle at Nechung Monastery were state-sanctioned by the nascent Tibetan government, becoming the head of an expansive pantheon of worldly deities assigned to protect the newly unified country. While the Fifth Dalai Lama and his government endorsed Pehar as part of his larger unification project, the governments of later Dalai Lamas continued to expand the deity's influence, and by extension their own, by ritually establishing Pehar at monasteries and temples around Lhasa and across Tibet. Pehar's cult at Nechung Monastery came to embody the Dalai Lama's administrative control in a mutually beneficial relationship of protection and prestige, the effects of which continue to reverberate within Tibet and among the Tibetan exile community today"--