Search results for "Buddhism in Japan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889 - 1929), born in Patiala State, India, became ... Asian people have profound faith than those in the West. ...21 KB (3,248 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- 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
- Republic, is a landlocked socialist republic in Southeast Asia. Laos traces ... than stimulated, growth and development, in 1986 the government announced ...33 KB (4,958 words) - 09:37, 10 June 2024
- religions—the Abrahamic religions, Buddhism, Hinduism—consider suicide ... involving people who are terminally ill, in extreme pain, and/or have minimal ...31 KB (4,676 words) - 21:40, 26 February 2023
- (called "semi-feudal"), most often in discussions of Japan under ... development of science and technology in the modern age. ...38 KB (6,097 words) - 01:33, 21 July 2022
- 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
- longstanding political or military influence in Europe. He is famous, or infamous ... As a nepotist and spendthrift, Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 17:03, 7 September 2023
- Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by ... and writing system by the great King Sejong in 1446, the hangul. Sejong wanted ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- mar: 고려사람), the name ethnic Koreans in the Post-Soviet states use ... from Kyongsang and Jeolla provinces in the late 1930s and early 1940s ...27 KB (3,739 words) - 06:09, 8 June 2024
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in an airplane crash in September 1961. peace and other valuable qualities to bear in his efforts to resolve international ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in ... of South Korea's population lives in the Seoul National Capital ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon ... his metaphysical ability to remove obstacles in his devotees' lives. Widely ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- by about 25 percent). Other languages spoken in India come mainly from the ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either ... without stigma, because of its iconic usage in Nazi Germany the symbol has ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- Xiuzhen (修真) is the principal technique in the Taoist quest for ... Western scholars have encountered difficulty in treating Xiuzhen as a serious ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 17:32, 11 October 2020
- 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
- Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions ... calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink, typically ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- a family of scholars, Yan Zhenqing excelled in his studies and, after passing ... Yan’s artistic accomplishment in Chinese calligraphy parallels the ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:43, 15 October 2020
- is a predominantly Buddhist island nation in South Asia, located 18 miles ... Portugal and the Dutch, the British gained control in 1796. ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
