epub, mobi |eng | 2020-07-28 | Author:Barbara Demick

* * * — IN HER FORTIES, Pema in effect became a foster mother. One of her cousins, a relatively well-to-do man who owned a bar and shop in Lhasa, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dewei Zhang

Given that the bed was wide and the sand deep, Fudeng even jumped into the river to obtain first-hand data before designing the bridge. Only seventeen months later, an arched ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Johan Elverskog [Elverskog, Johan]

Chapter 10 The Buddhist Landscape Temples were strewn like stars, and pagodas like flying wild geese. —Samgukyusa, Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms, Book 3 Although the Dharma and Buddhists played ...

mobi |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Harvey Kraft

KARMA His reputation preceded him. As Sakamuni entered the area, word spread quickly that on this day the Buddha would direct his attention at the centerpiece of Brahmanism, the Doctrine ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Yuhang Li

FIGURE 4.13 Anonymous, Nine-lotus Bodhisattva, 1593. Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk. The collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art. FIGURE 4.14 Empress Dowager Xiaochun was honored as Bodhisattva with ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:George Dutton

POKING FUN AT A BONZE No Chinaman nor one of us is he: a head without one hair, an unhemmed frock. Under his nose lie three or five rice cakes; ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter N. Stearns

Pacifist groups The decades after 1814–15 truly constituted the birthplace for an amazing variety of pacifist or peace-seeking organizations: nothing like this had ever occurred before. The focus was almost ...

azw3 |eng | 2020-05-03 | Author:Captivating History [History, Captivating]

A jar from the Yayoi period. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.or g This was further emphasized by the rise of trade between the tribes. Some were settled in the regions that had metal ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Dougill

Kaomise, the year-end festival of Kabuki, is an important item in Kyoto’s social calendar and is attended by geisha and maiko. Performances for the year-end kaomise extravaganza are sold out ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mei Ruo

In Chinese, a bottle gourd is homophonous with blessings, and so represents wealth and peace. It is an auspicious symbol in the traditional culture. In the old days, the rich ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Harvey Kraft

KARMA His reputation preceded him. As Sakamuni entered the area, word spread quickly that on this day the Buddha would direct his attention at the centerpiece of Brahmanism, the Doctrine ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Karen Armstrong

the flowering trees bloomed; the fruit trees were weighed down by the burden of their fruit; the trunk lotuses bloomed on the trunks of trees . . . The system ...