Search results for "Buddhism in Japan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- harvest festival and a three-day holiday in both North and South Korea ... During this time the ancestors are honored in special ceremonies. ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- Ethical Culture is a nontheistic religion established by Felix Adler ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- of a family of chess variants native to Japan. Shogi is said to be derived ... In 1612, the shogunate passed a law giving endowments to top players ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
- Signaling, as such, has been very important in environments where communication ... Although flag-like symbols were used in some ancient cultures, the ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- East Indies, Java now plays a dominant role in the economic and political ... events, Java is the 12th largest island in the world and the fourth largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- In ancient times as well as today, Feng Shui, (風水) pronounced ... space, weather, astronomy, and geomagnetism in determining the most auspicious ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- The kingdom began when the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius invaded India ... in the easternmost part of the Pakistani Punjab, or Pushkalavati and ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- The ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba; '銀杏' in Chinese; plural ginkgoes ... For centuries it was thought to be extinct in the wild, but is now known ...22 KB (3,325 words) - 12:49, 22 May 2024
- sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to other types of ... The first "true alphabet" in this sense is believed to be ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Sri Lanka was ceded to the British Empire in 1815. Its status as capital ... the nation gained independence from Britain in 1948, and several decades of ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- This article is about the Australian territory in the Indian Ocean ... is a small territory of Australia located in the Indian Ocean, 1645 miles ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- One of the most isolated nations in the world, Bhutan is often described ... for a small strip of subtropical plains in the extreme south that is intersected ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... seamounts trending northwest by southeast in the North Pacific Ocean between ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- 40 million overseas Chinese, mostly living in Southeast Asia, where they ... In each area, overseas Chinese have retained their languages and cultural ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- Korea (the DPRK), is an East Asian country in the northern half of the Korean ... communist Democratic People's Republic in 1948. It is now a single-party ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- and Mongolian, with the latter written in the Mongolian classical alphabet ... Inner Mongolia has played a role in world history far beyond that ...33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
- ) is a province of China located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze ... most of the forests and began farming rice in the valleys and plains. To ...18 KB (2,479 words) - 12:20, 4 February 2023
- vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area ... In the Oxford English Dictionary a mountain is defined as "A ...28 KB (3,998 words) - 16:21, 17 January 2023
- Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September ... In his later writings he distanced himself from realism as an aesthetic ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 19:54, 7 May 2024
- the most influential Protestant theologians in the twentieth century. inherited from the nineteenth century. In post-World War I Germany, when ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
