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- ; Manchu: Abkai mukdehun) is a complex of Taoist buildings situated ... *Religion in China *Confucianism == Notes == ==References== ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- John of Montecorvino, or Giovanni Da/di Montecorvino in Italian, also ... * Religion in China * Medieval Roman Catholic Missions in China ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- events at the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris. Even though Eric Liddell ... Eric Liddell, fondly called the "Flying Scotsman," was born ...8 KB (1,362 words) - 19:25, 13 February 2024
- region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northwest ... Road, had been influenced by Islam early in its history, many citizens ...15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
- The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ ... Qing Dynasty's summer palace), situated in the city of Chengde in Hebei ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 14:51, 5 December 2023
- most fundamental virtues universally found in diverse cultures throughout ... In Confucian thought, filial piety ( c=孝|p=Xiào ) is one of the ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 C.E. The christological ... Nestorianism originated in the fifth century out of an attempt to ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- by the Chinese Ming Dynasty Emperor Yongle, in 1403. More than 2,169 scholars ... Di had the Encyclopedia transported and kept in the Forbidden City. In 1557 ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 16:59, 4 June 2023
- as the bodhisattva of infinite compassion in East Asian Buddhism. The name ... When worship of Avalokiteśvara spread to China, he was also first worshiped ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- a tiered tower with multiple eaves, common in China, Japan, Korea, Nepal ... were incorporated into the overall design. In China, these structures incorporated ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 23:42, 28 April 2024
- ) existed from 1124 C.E. (Yelü Dashi proclaimed himself king in the ... The Mongol Empire destroyed the Khitan empire in 1218. The Khitan people ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- the High God (or Clan Ancestor) postulated in the earliest-known religious ... B.C.E.), however, the deity's position in the Chinese religious imagination ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- prophecy that the Joseon Dynasty would end in its 500th year (1392-1892) ... to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in July 1894 and the crushing ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431, and the conflict over ... continued to be called "Nestorian" in the West, to distinguish it ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- qigong meditation introduced by Li Hongzhi in China in 1992. Falun Gong has ... twice as the "Star Qigong School" in the 1992 and 1993 Asian Health ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- Category:Philosophy and religion between members by meeting regularly in houses or smaller meeting places ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- , literally towering Eyebrow Mountain) is located in Sichuan province ... the Ming and Qing dynasties are located in the vicinity of the mountaintop ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- prominence during the emergence of modern China. Their father, Charles Jones ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- during the Hundred Schools of Thought era in Chinese philosophy. His teachings ... Zou Yan is regarded as the founder of natural science in China. His ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- preferred term by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and that the word Maoism ... In the People's Republic of China (PRC), Mao Zedong Thought is ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- President of the People's Republic of China from April 27, 1959, to October ... book, How to Be a Good Communist, published in 1939, was made required reading ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 20:53, 3 November 2022
- In ancient India, Nālānda (Sanskrit: meaning "giver of knowledge ... Nalanda has been called "one of the first great universities ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- and Western ideas to the Chinese Empire in the sixteenth century. He was ... In 1601, Ricci became the first foreigner from the West to enter the ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- political ideology that regards China to be central or unique relative ... October 1860, guaranteed freedom of religion in China, legalized the opium ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- deity among the Eight Immortals figures in Daoism. She is often described ... deities who play an important role in Chinese religion and culture ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 09:15, 20 January 2024
- quot;), an overview of the history of China covering more than two thousand ... the process of democratization of learning in China where civil service largely ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- whether certain elements of Chinese folk religion (including ancestor veneration ... Pope Clement XI (r. 1700–1721) decided in favor of the Dominicans (who ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Chinese rebellion against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics ... In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- religious figure (after the Dalai Lama) in the Gelugpa (Dge-lugs-pa) sect ... controversy: the People's Republic of China asserts it is Qoigyijabu ...11 KB (1,374 words) - 06:34, 18 November 2022
- teaching was first brought to Japan from China in the middle of the eigth ... In addition to teachings from Tiantai in China, Saichō included Zen ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- Song dynasty and preceded the Ming dynasty in the historiography of China. to Russia); however, the Mongol rulers in Asia were only interested in ...21 KB (3,202 words) - 21:34, 4 June 2023
- founded Manichaeism, an ancient dualistic religion that was once prolific in ... The teachings of Mani were once widely circulated in the ancient world ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- of the ancient kingdom of Srivijaya, in modern day Sumatra, as well ... I Ching was born Zhang Wen Ming in 635 in Qizhou (modern Shandong ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 13:24, 4 February 2023
- Wang Guowei was the first to introduce to China the works of Friedrich Nietzsche ... antiquarian who encouraged his interest in ancient Chinese script and ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- is the first dynasty to be described independently in both the official ... It was at this early stage in China's long history that the concept ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 November 2022
- the region of Manchuria (Northeast China) until the seventeenth century ... Over a period of thirty years beginning in 1586, Nurhaci, a chieftain ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- 674) was the fifth Chan (Buddhist) patriarch in the traditional lineage of ... After Chan Buddhism had been established in China for several centuries ...14 KB (1,945 words) - 17:46, 15 May 2020
- sixth century C.E. and played a seminal role in the transmission of Zen Buddhism ... origins, the chronology of his journey to China, his death, and other details ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- is generally considered to have been in about the sixth century B.C.E. ... on nature and the self, which has resulted in the development of themes like ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- writers, and musicians who came together in the bloody third century C ... The Seven Sages’ life of retirement in the countryside became a ...14 KB (2,127 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- Mao Zedong of the People's Republic of China. Jiang Qing was most famous ... took over political control of the country. In 1969, she became a member of ...14 KB (2,214 words) - 20:36, 3 April 2024
- ) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ... *Religion in China ==Notes== ==References== *Blofeld, John. 1958. The ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 20:57, 7 February 2024
- organized among the bureaucratic elite in the imperial government of ... Early in the seventeenth century, the Tung-lin Academy joined with ...12 KB (1,805 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- of cultural-religious syncretism that arose in Japan, which blends Buddhist ... The relationship between Buddhism and Shintoism in Japan is complex ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 20:48, 31 December 2023
- millennium C.E.. The Three Kingdoms period in Korea extends from the first ... Han dynasty established four commanderies in northern parts of the Korean ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- and Silla. The fall of Baekje to Silla in 668 marks the recognized beginning ... Archaeological discoveries in the ancient Unified Silla dynasty reveal ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" ... the myths of both of these play a key role in modern Korea's explanation ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
- through Christianity), to uproot the religion of the barbarian foreigners ... the foundation for the Christian Church in Korea to flourish today. Andrew ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 17:52, 27 July 2023
- and mathematician of the Ming Dynasty. Born in Shanghai, Xu passed the first ... Xu studied with Matteo Ricci in Nanjing, and in 1603 was baptized ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
