Search results for "Religion in China" - New World Encyclopedia
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- [[File:Om symbol.svg.png|thumb|right|250px|Om/Aum in Devanagari script]] , also rendered Om, is the most sacred sound in Hinduism, symbolizing the infinite ...13 KB (2,123 words) - 07:07, 13 June 2023
- to 1969. He handed over power to Commander in Chief General Yahya Khan, whom ... Ayub Khan was born in the village of Rehana in Haripur District to ...18 KB (2,831 words) - 14:50, 7 February 2023
- are the only extant (living) species in the genus Pongo and the subfamily ... Orangutans are apes in the family Hominidae and superfamily Hominoidea ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... facilities for disposal of solid waste in Koror, and extensive sand and ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- of other nations that are not its colonies. In various forms, imperialism ... as spreading order, morality, the true religion and civilization, and have ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- 1913) was a British army officer. He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the ... of independence to the Indians; the Ashanti in west Africa and the Zulu in ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... After it was conquered by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1021 C.E., the name Gandhara ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning ... ==Early religion in Korea== [[Image:Dangun as Mountain Spirit 1.jpg ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- during meditation, and Zen teachers use them in training novices. Each koan ... In Chan (Zen) Buddhism, a koan is a succinct paradoxical statement ...33 KB (5,103 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- of his work, it was never enshrined in one of the famous collections ... to understand early medieval Chinese religion, culture, and society. Recent ...30 KB (4,865 words) - 06:29, 18 April 2024
- areas stretching from Central Asia in the North and West to Myanmar ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- Buddhism has been a major force in the creation of Korean culture ... One of the foremost Buddhist temples in South Korea, Haeinsa has housed ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Daoist and Zen tradition ... and orientalist Edwin G. Pulleyblank asserts in his study Linguistic Evidence ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- after the fall of the Lon Nol regime in 1975. He is considered largely ... After joining the Communist movement while a student in France and ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- to news gathering and processes involved in obtaining information for public ... some limitations are always present both in principle and in practice. ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. It is in the Wellington ... of the coast. This cosmopolitan city exists in close proximity to nature. ...30 KB (4,384 words) - 20:30, 18 January 2024
- Buddhist scriptures, and the ideas contained in and based on them, that attempts ... and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet, China, Korea ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- that were occasionally worldwide in scope. By contrast, during ... Before uniformitarianism, the dominant belief in many cultures of ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- portrait with his statue following his death in 1861.]] Mourning is in the simplest sense synonymous with grief over the death ...23 KB (3,744 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- recognized as a major socialist thinker and, in many socialist circles, as ... Bernstein was born in Berlin on January 6, 1850. His political career ...9 KB (1,198 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
