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  • Taejong (1367-1422, r. 1400-1418) the third king of the Joseon Dynasty ... Taejong's foundational leadership played a vital role in establishing ...
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  • distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. Anthropologists ... as it becomes even more difficult to define in an increasingly fluid and globalized ...
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  • Golden mean or "middle way" is an ancient concept described ... In ancient Western civilization, the Golden Mean is found in the mythological ...
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  • history, although each remains controversial in certain sects of modern society. group. Whether that group is defined by religion, race, or other difference ...
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  • [[File:Om symbol.svg.png|thumb|right|250px|Om/Aum in Devanagari script]] , also rendered Om, is the most sacred sound in Hinduism, symbolizing the infinite ...
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  • to 1969. He handed over power to Commander in Chief General Yahya Khan, whom ... Ayub Khan was born in the village of Rehana in Haripur District to ...
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  • are the only extant (living) species in the genus Pongo and the subfamily ... Orangutans are apes in the family Hominidae and superfamily Hominoidea ...
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  • The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... facilities for disposal of solid waste in Koror, and extensive sand and ...
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  • of other nations that are not its colonies. In various forms, imperialism ... as spreading order, morality, the true religion and civilization, and have ...
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  • 1913) was a British army officer. He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the ... of independence to the Indians; the Ashanti in west Africa and the Zulu in ...
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  • Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... After it was conquered by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1021 C.E., the name Gandhara ...
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  • East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning ... ==Early religion in Korea== [[Image:Dangun as Mountain Spirit 1.jpg ...
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  • during meditation, and Zen teachers use them in training novices. Each koan ... In Chan (Zen) Buddhism, a koan is a succinct paradoxical statement ...
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  • of his work, it was never enshrined in one of the famous collections ... to understand early medieval Chinese religion, culture, and society. Recent ...
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  • areas stretching from Central Asia in the North and West to Myanmar ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...
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  • Buddhism has been a major force in the creation of Korean culture ... One of the foremost Buddhist temples in South Korea, Haeinsa has housed ...
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  • of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Daoist and Zen tradition ... and orientalist Edwin G. Pulleyblank asserts in his study Linguistic Evidence ...
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  • after the fall of the Lon Nol regime in 1975. He is considered largely ... After joining the Communist movement while a student in France and ...
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  • to news gathering and processes involved in obtaining information for public ... some limitations are always present both in principle and in practice. ...
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  • Buddhist scriptures, and the ideas contained in and based on them, that attempts ... and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet, China, Korea ...
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