Search results for "Religion in China" - New World Encyclopedia
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- a province of the People's Republic of China located in the far southwestern ... Tibetan monks have practiced their religion in Shangri-la, establishing ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- (愛新覺羅) ruling family was the last Emperor of China between ... as a puppet state of Imperial Japan, and in 1934, he was officially crowned ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 03:35, 7 December 2022
- ) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ... and Holland all sought to open trade with China. Portugal arrived first on ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 21:51, 31 January 2024
- to the first successful communist revolution in Lenin's Russia in November ... today include Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba. China and North Korea have each ...15 KB (2,166 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- denomination of Korean Buddhism developed in the late Goryeo period, as ... currently comprises nearly 3,000 temples in Korea, organized into 25 districts. ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 06:43, 5 April 2024
- an eminent theologian and religious scholar in the German Protestant tradition ... Born in Peine (near Hanover), Rufolf Otto attended the Gymnasium Adreanum ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 17:41, 22 December 2022
- kingdom on the earth, a utopian society in which wealth would be spread ... Richard Henry Tawney was born on November 30, 1880, in Calcutta, India ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 01:48, 14 December 2022
- roots back to the arrival of Christianity in Scotland, but its identity ... roots back to the beginnings of Christianity in Scotland, but its identity ...20 KB (2,987 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- which influenced all subsequent teachers in the Linji (Japanese: Rinzai ... *Religion in China *Buddhism ==Notes== ==References == *Cleary, J.C ...16 KB (2,594 words) - 16:55, 13 May 2020
- over many of the islands of the Sulu Sea, in the southern Philippines. Though ... In 1851, the Spanish in Manila began launching attacks which destroyed ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- created the discipline of comparative religion. He was also one of the ... Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. Zenji is a title meaning ... to be the best philosophical work written in the Japanese language. To this ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- upon any number of religious teachings. In the Abrahamic religions, alms ... Related to almsgiving is the practice of giving a tithe. In English ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan Reference ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- (a short-necked lute) had been introduced in Japan from China. Various instruments ... Komagaku and togaku arrived in Japan during the Nara period (710-794 ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- is the ruler of Heaven (Tian) in Chinese mythology and is among the ... In addition to the myriad Chinese myths and popular tales that reference ...18 KB (2,861 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- called Han Wen-kung) (768 - 824 C.E.), born in Nanyang, Henan, China, was ... Han Yu was born in 768, in Northern China, the son of a fairly high ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- by humans and have had an important role in human life for thousands of ... chambered stomach, which plays a vital role in digesting, regurgitating, and ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 21:23, 6 October 2022
- referred to as the "father of modern China." He played an instrumental ... one of the greatest leaders of modern China, his political life was one ...36 KB (5,408 words) - 22:52, 26 February 2023
- , President of Toronto University College, in 1851. The term Pré-historique ... Religious accounts of creation, such as the biblical account in Genesis ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022