Search results for "Religion in China" - New World Encyclopedia
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- [[Image:Village school in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan.jpg|thumb ... to a female college student, particularly in the United States. Before the ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 22:24, 7 January 2024
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... The first attempt by Jesuits to reach China was made in 1552 by Saint ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- One of the best known stories in Chan history is the verse writing ... *Religion in China *Buddhism ==Notes== ==References== *Dumoulin, Heinrich ...14 KB (2,174 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- South Korea or Republic of Korea, is located in East Asia at approximately ... seas: the Yellow Sea to the west; the East China Sea to the south; and the ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- ) are an ethnic group indigenous to China and the largest single ethnic ... ethnic group is closely tied to that of China. Han Chinese trace their ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- Japanese culture, and this concept is still in use today. The term “do” ... Yixuan. It was brought to Japan by Myoan Eisai in 1191. ...8 KB (1,186 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- He was one of the founders of the China League of Left-Wing Writers ... poverty and suffering of Chinese peasants in the countryside. He went to ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- The Takla Makan (also Taklamakan or Taklimakan) is China's largest ... of which reach heights of over 109 yards. In extremely rare cases, sand ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... Theologically, Manichaeism is a dualistic religion that postulated ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ... rules of monastic and religious practice. In Japan, it became known as the ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 12:20, 1 August 2022
- 30, 2016) was a religious studies scholar in the United States. He wrote ... Huston Cummings Smith was born in Suzhou, China on May 31, 1919, to ...17 KB (2,414 words) - 21:25, 9 February 2024
- capital Nagaoka-kyō (長岡京) at Nagaoka in 784, before moving to Heian ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- Wonhyo (元曉, 원효; "Genngyo" in Japanese) (617 – ... Unified Silla, Wonhyo played a vital role in the reception and assimilation ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- of Gojoseon, the first kingdom of Korea, in present-day Liaoning, Manchuria ... Although myth shrouds the origins of the Korean people, the message ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- friend of Wonhyo (원효 元曉617-686 ). In 661, he traveled to Tang China ... and both of their biographies are recorded in Samguk Yusa (The Memorabilia ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 11:28, 18 April 2023
- In 1897, King Gojong returned to Gyeongun Palace from his refuge at ... advancing that the new title for Korea stood in the tradition of naming new ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 04:27, 8 June 2024
- Sukjong upon his father's death in 1105. King Yejong’s reign ... those of the previously ascendant court religion of Buddhism. During his ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- for a group of related minorities in China, including the Panyao ... used to refer to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan and ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- Bulgar, Mongolian, Hunnic and Altaic religion named Tengriism. For the ... and Mongols maintained a continuous belief in Tengri throughout their history ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023
- country was only a backward small country in need of urgent reforms, they ... He paid a prize for it and spent his life in a remote farming village where ...16 KB (2,572 words) - 09:49, 26 January 2023
