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of the traditional lunisolar calendar used in Japan until 1873. was the thirty ... In a time and place in history where women did not hold significant ...

Japanese culture, and this concept is still in use today. The term “do” ... Dynasty by Linji Yixuan. It was brought to Japan by Myoan Eisai in 1191. ...

the most widely practiced branch of Buddhism in Japan, along with Jodo Shinshu. ... near the end of the Heian Period when Buddhism in Japan had become deeply involved ...

Jianzhen or Ganjin (Chien-chen鑒真 or 鑑真; 688–763) was a Chinese monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ...

of cultural-religious syncretism that arose in Japan, which blends Buddhist ... The relationship between Buddhism and Shintoism in Japan is complex ...

by particular sects of Sino-Japanese Buddhism, especially among the Chinese ... to be confused with Virocana, who appears in the eighth chapter of the Chandogya ...

to the development of Mahayana Buddhism in Japan. ===Spread of Tendai=== ... the dominant form of main-stream Buddhism in Japan for many years, and ...

In ancient India, Nālānda (Sanskrit: meaning "giver of knowledge ... Nalanda has been called "one of the first great universities ...

as part of an embassy of 570 delegates from Japan in 717 and remained there ... Taika Reform (645) and the development of Buddhism in Japan. ...

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 ...

the founder of the Linji school of Chán Buddhism during Tang Dynasty China ... In 851, Linji moved to the Linji temple in Hebei, where he took his ...

and greatest Buddhist temples, founded in 553 C.E., has been active for ... Beopjusa founded in 553 C.E., in the Shilla Kingdom during the fourteenth ...

of the most widely followed forms of Buddhism in Japan. Today, there are ten ... became disillusioned with what Buddhism in Japan had become, foreseeing ...

made with the hands or fingers, used in meditation, iconography, dance ... In Indian religious practice, the role of mudras as a concentration ...

as the basis of zhuyin. Though innovative in many ways, he was skeptical ... for another three by Yuan Shikai. While in prison, Zhang Binglin studied ...

one's ancestors. It has been celebrated in Japan for more than 500 years ... * De Visser, Marinus Willem. Ancient Buddhism in Japan: Sutras and ...

Wonhyo (元曉, 원효; "Genngyo" in Japanese) (617 – ... Unified Silla, Wonhyo played a vital role in the reception and assimilation ...

world and the West by introducing Zen Buddhism and other Far Eastern religious ... of their religious heritage, which were in decline due to rapid modernization ...

millennium C.E.. The Three Kingdoms period in Korea extends from the first ... Han dynasty established four commanderies in northern parts of the Korean ...

The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...

and contributed to the modernization of Buddhism in Japan. ... as a reformer of the Shingon sect. of Buddhism in Japan. Kakuban, who was originally ...

a tiered tower with multiple eaves, common in China, Japan, Korea, Nepal ... were incorporated into the overall design. In China, these structures incorporated ...

are called Bhikkhunis. The holy orders in Buddhism connect back to the ... In addition to pursuing their own spiritual advancement, Bhikkhu and ...

of the Jodo Shinshu (or True Pure Land) sect in Japan. He was born at the close ... had been the bible of the Pure Land Buddhism in Japan since the time of Genshin ...

スキヤキ) is a Japanese dish in the nabemono ("one-pot ... party. The ingredients are slowly simmered in a shallow iron pot in a mixture ...

#039;s third queen. Myeongjong became king in 1545 at the age of twelve, ... During the reign of King Myeongjong, Buddhism, which had been heavily ...

of Jikji printed during the Goryeo Dynasty, in 1377, is on record as the world ... The purpose of Jikji was to assist Buddhist monks in teaching Zen ...

(Tokugawa shogunate 1603-1864), who lived in Niigata, Japan. He was renowned ... Ryōkan (良寛) was born at Izumozaki in Echigo Province, on the ...

as the bodhisattva of infinite compassion in East Asian Buddhism. The name ... spread to China, he was also first worshiped in male form, but the representation ...

the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of Japan at the end of the twelfth ... The Tale of the Heike was compiled in 1240 by an unknown author from ...

the first Jewel, Buddha. Founded in 646 C.E. by Master Jajang, ... or master Buddha’s teachings in order to bring salvation to ...

or bodies, which are said to be manifested in different ways: 1) the nirmanakaya ... conflicting teachings about the Buddha found in Buddhist texts. As with earlier ...

is one of two main temples of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism, the largest religious denomination in Japan (by number of temples in a single ...

Buddhist and Taoist festival held in certain East Asian countries ... In Chinese culture, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the ...

the Korean Peninsula, ultimately resulting in Korea becoming a tributary ... Korean Peninsula. Standing at the twilight in its dynastic cycle, Koreans ...

Jirisan (지리산, 智異山) is a mountain in the southern part ... The "ji" in the name of Jirisan or Mt. Jiri is the chinese ...

and yogic practices, that developed in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...

Vajrayana Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Esoteric ... While Vajrayana Buddhism is a part of Tibetan Buddhism, in that it ...

The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (JOKB) Korea's largest denomination ... currently comprises nearly 3,000 temples in Korea, organized into 25 districts. ...

and Eastern philosophy, and was instrumental in reawakening an interest in ... Watsuji Tetsuro was born in 1889 in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture ...

Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... are represented in the country today. Christianity was introduced to ...

In Korea, Buddhist temples are abundant. Many of the oldest and most ... led to the establishment of Buddhism in Japan. In Silla Buddhism ...

upon any number of religious teachings. In the Abrahamic religions, alms ... Related to almsgiving is the practice of giving a tithe. In English ...

goal of Kendo has been stated by the All Japan Kendo Federation as "to ... Kendo is rooted in the lifestyle and the spirit of the Samurai tradition ...

Second Patriarch of Chinese Ch'an Buddhism and the twenty-ninth after ... method to reach a true understanding of Buddhism, and that he taught that ...

sixth century C.E. and played a seminal role in the transmission of Zen Buddhism ... be an inspiration to practitioners of Zen Buddhism today, and he exemplifies ...

was not practiced as a distinct discipline in itself. Historically, Japan ... involves an attempt to understand reality in terms of words, Eastern philosophy ...

one of the three great unifiers of Japan. He was famous for his prowess ... to contest his older brother's rule, in order to preserve the integrity ...

of the Japanese Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism. He transformed the Rinzai ... people; and the explanation of Zen teachings in a way that ordinary people ...

Buddhist scriptures, and the ideas contained in and based on them, that attempts ... respected and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet, China, ...

living history of the development of Buddhism in Japan. ... living history of the development of Buddhism in Japan. ...

of a basic shakuhachi, but shakuhachi vary in length from about 1.3 shaku ... used by the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism in the practice of suizen ...

art of archery. It is a Japanese martial art in which archers use a tall Japanese ... half a million practitioners of kyudo today. In Japan, by most accounts, the ...

674) was the fifth Chan (Buddhist) patriarch in the traditional lineage of ... After Chan Buddhism had been established in China for several centuries ...

) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ... of beings, one of the central concepts in Chan teachings. He pointed ...

of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro engaged in an effort to translate Eastern ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...

The Tathāgatagarbha doctrine is an important teaching in Mahayana ... the Mahayanists and later became linked (in a less "pure," more ...

, was a Buddhist monk of thirteenth century Japan. A controversial figure during ... on earth appealed to religious reformers in the post-World War II Japan ...

of the Sarugaku theater group. From evidence in a recently discovered document ... Ashikaga Yoshimitsu—the third shogun of Japan, at Imagumano in 1374 or ...

Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its ... influence on the development of Buddhism in Japan continued through the ...

His lessons and stories have been found in textbooks to provide morality ... to this supreme being is equally inscribed in the heart of every individual ...

word for "three baskets") stored in Haeinsa, a Buddhist temple ... complete extant version of Buddhist canon in Chinese script. Carved onto ...

gender. Women, who occupied a low position in the social hierarchy, often ... intelligence. The total number of poems in the Manyoshu is 4,516. Most ...

called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state religion ... C.E.. However, after the arrival of Buddhism in Japan, Hachiman became a ...

the diverse cultures and countries in which it has spread. Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...

Huike, he secluded himself for many years in the mountains to avoid the ... reveals the influence of Taoism on Chan Buddhism, and deals with the principles ...

Shimazaki Haruki, a Japanese author, active in Meiji, Taisho and early Showa ... himself as the major proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature. He was ...

menomuchi-no-kami (大日孁貴神) is in Japanese mythology a sun goddess ... left eye of Izanagi, as he purified himself in a river, and went on to become ...

and Silla. The fall of Baekje to Silla in 668 marks the recognized beginning ... Archaeological discoveries in the ancient Unified Silla dynasty reveal ...

and teacher, best known for his books about Japan. Born in Greece and raised ... In 1890, Harper’s sent Hearn to Japan as a newspaper correspondent ...

form). He originally followed his father in a military career, but became ... Mimosusu River”) is a poetic masterpiece in which he pitted his own poems ...

, lasting from 538 to 710, was a period in the history of Japan during ... legitimacy of rule by the imperial family. In 603, Shōtoku Taishi established ...

), is a Chan Buddhist temple at Song Shan in Zhengzhou City, Henan ... China after the Shaolin Temple was destroyed in 1644 by the Qing government ...

Korean painting includes paintings made in Korea or by overseas Koreans ... of the Korean people. The flourishing of Buddhism during the Goryeo period ...

and popular actors were portrayed, engaged in visually appealing activities ... Ukiyo-e were often used for illustrations in picture books and guide ...

The Silla dynasty, emerging in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula ... Kingdoms of Korea. Beginning as a chiefdom in the Samhan confederacies, Silla ...

jiao" (three religion) village temple in Singapore, with its teachings ... and regards Taoism and Confucianism, Buddhism's predominance has ...

to illustrate the spiritual principles of Buddhism such as the transiency of ... (1603–1867), when it was often performed in vaudeville-type urban theaters ...

during the Meiji and Taishō periods in Japan. Born the son of a samurai ... He was critical of the increasing militarism in Japan during the early 1930s ...

Hōjō Masako (北条 政子, 1156- 1225) is known in Japanese history ... Born in 1156 as the eldest daughter of the leader of the influential ...

Utagawa Hiroshige, (歌川広重; 1797 in Edo (Tokyo) – October ... His genius was recognized in the West by the Impressionists and Post ...

Baekje (October 18 B.C.E. – August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest ... . Soga no Iname promoted Korean Buddhism in Japan. Koma's name could ...

and botanist, had been born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Even though he ... Woo Jang-choon was born at a difficult time in Korean history, at ...

bowls, low firing temperatures resulting in a fairly porous body, lead ... the artistic style of Raku potters in Japan. For 15 generations, ...

quot; or "wide" "drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the ... Taiko has become particularly popular in recent years as the central ...

country = Japan | undergrad = 13,254 | postgrad = 9,198 | ... thumb|240px|right|The Clock Tower, completed in 1925, is the most recognizable ...

Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pali language. ... the occasion of the Fourth Buddhist Council (in the usual Theravada numbering ...

the beauty of nation with much of the land in a mountainous and/or sea setting ... The national park system in Korea celebrated its fortieth anniversary ...

713) was one of the most important figures in the Chinese Chán monastic ... quot; (頓教) Southern Chan school of Buddhism, which advocated an immediate ...

부산; 釜山), is the largest port city in the Republic of Korea. With ... Busan became Korea’s first international port in 1876. Busan was ...

regarded as the holiest temple complex in Japan. Located in the city ... The Ise-Jingu Shrine is the major sightseeing attraction in Ise, attracting ...

which influenced all subsequent teachers in the Linji (Japanese: Rinzai ... Keqin (Wade-Giles: Yuan-wu K'o-ch'in; Japanese: Engo Kokugon) (1063 ...

He was an organizer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ... Born in New York City, New York, of French parentage, he grew up speaking ...

histories of any kingdom or nation in the world, if the 3000 B.C ... Korea (Korean: 한국 in South Korea or 조선 in North Korea, see ...

that utilizes a large variety of techniques in defense against an opponent ... during training. Kano established judo in 1905, but many schools of jujutsu ...

the most influential school of Buddhism in Japan during the seventh ... Xuanzang’s detailed account of his travels, Journey to the West ...

to a sacred geometric device commonly used in the religious practice of Hinduism ... the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." ...

Maitreya, the "future Buddha" in Buddhist eschatology, is ... The prophecy of the arrival of Maitreya is found in the canonical ...

An amulet (from Latin amuletum; earliest extant use in Natural History ... ==Amulets in ancient history== Throughout history, on every continent ...

law) means freedom from external authority. In moral and political philosophy ... and endorse or reject moral principles in accordance with his own will ...

relations, dominated by China, prevailed in East Asia until the weakening ... allowed to conduct trade with China, both in the capital and at land frontiers ...

" is a form of Mahāyāna Buddhism that stresses the practice ... According to tradition, Zen originated in India as a non-verbal doctrine ...

essayist. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made ... a profound understanding of Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism ...

and an aggressive expansionist policy. In that both his father and grandfather ... In addition to military prowess, Chandragupta II elevated culture ...

best known for the novel Trout Fishing in America. Brautigan wrote ten ... the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture in America, especially California ...

who discovered the agent for syphilis, in 1911. mother and teachers became a medical doctor. In 1900, he came to the U.S. and ...

the fourteenth century, Noh was established in its present form by Kan'ami ... and are intended to illustrate the principles of Buddhism. ...

the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in the Gregorian calendar, from ... growing domestic problems and realized that in order to escape the threat ...

Born the son of an insignificant daimyo in Owari province, near present ... many innovations both on the battlefield and in the economic and political ...

vernacular poetry, one of the major figures in the history of Japanese poetics ... man of artistic sensibility turned recluse. In 1212, he completed Hojo-ki ...

between the Taira and Minamoto clans during Japan's late-Heian period ... #039; (平). The conflict is also known in Japanese as the Jishō-Juei ...

, Hanyu Pinyin: bào'ēnsì, English: Temple of Thanksgiving ... eco-friendly and elderly-friendly designs in their temple. During a major ...

which gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out a ... Founded by Shoko Asahara, Aum emerged in Japan in the mid-1980s and ...

the Licchavis and the Vajjian Confederacy. In Buddha's time, Vesali ... and watch towers stood at three places in the walls' gates. Buddhaghosa ...

capitals") was the Imperial capital of Japan from 794 until the Meiji ... Ikko sect.Esben Andreasen, Popular Buddhism In Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion ...

ISBN 8934908475) He emerged as a key figure in modern Korean Buddhism, introducing ... Born Lee Young Joo in Korea on April 10, 1912, Seongcheol was the ...

buildings from the Asuka period, preserved in Horyuji Temple, were built ... After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan began to build European ...

of Gojoseon, the first kingdom of Korea, in present-day Liaoning, Manchuria ... Although myth shrouds the origins of the Korean people, the message ...

Mount Fuji (富士山; Fuji-san in Japanese) is the tallest volcano ... Mount Fuji is a well-known symbol of Japan and is frequently depicted ...

The village of Bodh Gaya is in the Gaya district in the Indian state ... was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002 based upon the criteria ...

to be graced with special powers or skills. In general, possessed persons ... and the practice of exorcism originated in prehistoric shamanistic beliefs ...

T'oegye (1501-1570). The two lived in the same period and they met ... for having developed Zhu Xi's Thought in Korea and set the path of Korean ...

The Goryeo Dynasty marks the last Buddhist-shaped dynasty in Korea ... Silla, which had united the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 668, weakened ...

feudal lords) who sought to take control of Japan in the late stage of the ... Takeda Shingen was distinguished by his aggressiveness in battle and ...

- January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional ... In 1937, Japan engaged in war with China for a second time, and in ...

the north. Austronesian peoples predominate in the maritime region; taken ... the Europeans from the fifteenth century. Japan had made the most recent ...

shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun ... the beginning of the early modern period of Japan. Tokugawa Ieyasu, assisted ...

and eleventh centuries, they were unified in 1115 under Wanyan Aguda (完颜阿骨打 ... Over a period of thirty years beginning in 1586, Nurhaci, a chieftain ...

|country = Japan |undergrad = 14,711 [http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stu04/e08_02_j ... is one of the leading research universities in Japan, producing top officials ...

Religion in Korea encompasses Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity ... Religion in Korea has a multi-faceted character. Shamanism, a tribal ...

from the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects ... during meditation, and Zen teachers use them in training novices. Each koan ...

Kamakura (Japanese: 鎌倉市; -shi) is a city located in Kanagawa ... pilgrimages because of its grand temples; in the last century, it has become ...

or 1031 Kyoto), Japanese novelist and lady-in-waiting in the imperial court ... The Tale of Genji and to a central character in the novel. ...

or creed officially endorsed by the state. In some countries more than one ... political culture and the level of tolerance in that country. Some countries ...

was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431, and the conflict over ... continued to be called "Nestorian" in the West, to distinguish it ...

of different folds, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate ... mathematical principles of origami are used in engineering technology. ...

word (the kigo) descriptive of the season in which the renga is set. Hokku ... among both amateurs and professionals in many languages. The appeal ...

) is a Hindu temple complex, located in the village of Duy Phú in ... Many Champa temples exist in a valley roughly two kilometers wide ...

Confucian classics to spur political reform in China. After participating ... Liang believed that journalism had an important role in educating ...

of Korea, up to the division of Korea in the 1940s. See History of North ... Gojoseon (then called Joseon), was founded in 2333 B.C.E. by Dangun, who ...

are a class of supernatural creatures found in Japanese folklore, ... overt syncretism and reinterpretations in popular folklore (see below ...

Geopolitik. An army officer who had served in Japan as a military attaché ... of Hitler's expansionist strategies in Germany, resulting in World ...

Gaya refers to a confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley ... on the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria. Later in 660 C.E. Silla unified the ...

was an uprising of Japanese peasants, most of them Christians, in ... After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the Christian lords Konishi ...

Thread, The Hell Screen, Autumn, The Ball, In a Grove, and Kappa. humanity. The Akutagawa Prize, established in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan in memory ...

of Bulguksa and it played a vital role in Korean cultural history. Located on Mt. Tohamsan, in Gyeongju, South Korea, about one hour ...

For many centuries, Theravada Buddhism has been the predominant religion ... . It is also a significant minority religion in many other Asian countries ...

Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... In the Western tradition, ancient philosophy was developed primarily ...

of trees by training them and growing them in containers. Bonsai can be developed ... of cultivating single specimen trees in wooden trays or earthenware ...

was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. He is today regarded ... Basho, drawing on his own studies of Zen Buddhism, revolutionized haiku by ...

East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning ... ==Early religion in Korea== [[Image:Dangun as Mountain Spirit 1.jpg ...

The March First Movement, or the Samil Movement (in Korean, samil ... The March First demonstrations established the high-water mark in ...

and beyond, from present day Afghanistan in the north to Bengal in the ... The name ‘Ashoka’ translates as “without sorrow” in Sanskrit ...

a wealthy Chinese Methodist, had studied in the United States, and sent ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...

mountain) directly east of Gyeongju, in Gyeongsang province. If legends ... stature of the religious and cultural site. In 1995, Bulguksa was added to ...

politics when Minh's junta was deposed in a January 1964 coup by General ... War II, he became the Interior Minister in the French-backed State of ...

Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...

Incense has been used since antiquity in different parts of the world ... Incense is available in various forms and degrees of processing. Depending ...

of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Daoist and Zen tradition ... and orientalist Edwin G. Pulleyblank asserts in his study Linguistic Evidence ...

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 ...

to that the profound impact of Shamanism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and ... Music. Traditional music in Korea has been based on the voice, a distinct ...

religion with the adoption of Theravada Buddhism. That eroded the Hindu idea ... The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in ...

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 ...

Korea) and prominent tourist destination in eastern South Korea. It lies ... vast number of sites from this period remain in the city today. After the kingdom ...

is the traditional garment of Japan. Originally the word kimono was ... the right, and secured by a wide belt tied in the back, called an obi. Kimono ...

The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... The word Thai (ไทย) means "freedom" in the Thai language ...

Considered an important regional kingdom in Manchuria by the People's ... a major regional power of East Asia, fell in defeat to a Silla-Tang alliance ...

In addition, it is classified as a real number, A real number is a ... Nine is the highest single-digit number in the decimal system. A group ...

The Yangban (양반, 兩班 in Korean) were a well-educated scholarly ... ruling class of the partitioned Koreas. In modern day Korea, the yangban ...

Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated in many parts of the world, which ... The holiday has its highest prominence in Mexico, where the celebration ...

Japan made two invasions of Korea, in 1592 and 1596, starting a war ... 2007-03-24 involved China and resulted in further conflicts on the Korean ...

Japan made two invasions of Korea, in [Japan's Korea War: First ... == Negotiations and Truce between China and Japan (1594–1596) == ...

for the purpose of ritual purification in conjunction with prayer within ... Ablutions of one sort or another are practiced in nearly every religious ...

object is different from other art in that it is also tactile and ... used to create sculpture are unparalleled in the art world. ...

In addition, it is classified as a real number, A real number is a ... In the beginning, various groups in India wrote eight more or less ...

Kanji (漢字) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern ... Kanji includes new characters created in Japan, and modifications ...

is a form of ornamental handwriting found in various cultures throughout ... typography and non-classical hand-lettering in that characters are disciplined ...

have been one of the most skilled swordsmen in Japanese history. Musashi, ... life. He constantly tested his insights in a series of real life-or-death ...

Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley of central ... sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated ...

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 ... fused into a single unified form of Buddhism. In Japan in particular they ...

Early on in his college days, Kerouac embraced a bohemian lifestyle ... spent more than a decade studying Zen Buddhism in Japan and won a Pulitzer ...

The crowns of Silla, discovered and displayed in Gyeongju, are unique ... The crowns of Silla were made in the Korean kingdom of Silla approximately ...

the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. The dynasty was founded ... day Xi'an), the most populous city in the world at the time, is regarded ...

, is the most populous prefecture and city in Japan, and the center ... It is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and, unique among the prefectures ...

stages of the Soviet occupation of Sakhalin. In the decades following, those ... During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Empire of Japan controlled the ...

further east lies the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. The word Zhejiang (meaning ... Zhejiang has been enjoying a dramatic upsurge in its economy and standard ...

both ancient and modern, that originated in or is practiced in China or ... they were produced. Artists and artisans in ancient China relied heavily ...

Улс) is a landlocked country located in East Asia with a population ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...

define what people regard as most valuable in a human being. Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle dealt with virtues ...

Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” in Pali "śakamuṇi" ... " that bind us to suffering and keep us in ignorance. More than any other ...

) is a cultural region, ancient civilization, and nation in East Asia ... China has been a major source of inspiration and life in terms of ...

and the 2,000-year-old Imperial system. In 1924, he was expelled from ... historians as a puppet state of Imperial Japan, and in 1934, he was officially ...

influenced by the two primary religions of Japan, Shinto and Buddhism. Japanese ... stories of ancient India were influential in shaping Japanese stories, though ...

(the Chinese Pinyin spelling often used in Chinese recipes) or bean curd ... Tofu originated in ancient China, but little else is known about the ...

state of unity thereafter. Atonement in this sense, whether the offended ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...

(燕王), possessing a heavy military base in Beijing. Though Zhu Di excelled ... and construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing; the completion of ...

is a dharmic religion with its origins in the prehistory of India, still ... the individual to live, think and act in ways that respect and honor ...

or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers ... . This is the opposite of the term Occident. In terms of the Old World, Europe ...

Dangun founded Gojoseon in 2333 B.C.E. Modern historians generally ... The people of Gojoseon propagated in Manchuria, far eastern China ...

(Yellow River) and extends out to sea in the form of the Shandong Peninsula ... China, cast the province into a central role in Chinese history. The first ...

coined the term "ethnocentrism" in the nineteenth century, although ... of ethnocentrism has proven significant in the social sciences, both with ...

that has been passed down for centuries in oral or written form. There ... one thousand years before being recorded in books such as Shui Jing Zhu ...

of other nations that are not its colonies. In various forms, imperialism ... saw themselves as instruments for good in the world, even though their ...

[[Image:Mummy 501594 fh000031.jpg|thumb|375px|A mummy in the British ... or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs. Taken from the medieval ...

Japan (日本, Nihon or Nippon, officially日本国, Nihon-koku or ... that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as 35,000 B.C.E ...

Honolulu is the capital and most populous city area in the United ... Honolulu's history includes habitation beginning in the twelfth ...

was a term for the military nobility in pre-industrial Japan who were ... by integrating Confucian ethics and Zen Buddhism, which played an important ...

the People's Republic of China located in the northern part of the country ... Shanxi had been an important province in ancient China with the ancient ...

characters of Chinese origin, known in Japan as Kanji (漢字; Chinese ... In addition, kana were borrowed into Taiwanese to indicate the pronunciation ...

one of the most important political leaders in twentieth century Chinese history ... Taiwan occupied China's Permanent Seat in the United Nations Security ...

media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting ... exchanges with China and Korea. When Japan came into contact with the ...

the [earlier] second period were interested in pointing out the difference ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...

enormous impact on the unfolding of events in the twilight years of the Joseon ... (that is, the peasant) while followers in South Korea focus on his religious ...

of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone ... wide area can range from a single bell hung in a turret or bell-gable, to ...

a society. Thus, civilization is expressed in physical attributes, such as ... as a racial or ethnic group, a nation, or in the age of globalization, by ...

Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed Sukhothai ... In 1767, Burma invaded Ayutthaya, repelled the Ming Dynasty and took ...

Taejong (1367-1422, r. 1400-1418) the third king of the Joseon Dynasty ... Taejong's foundational leadership played a vital role in establishing ...

military leaders who was instrumental in defeating the Japanese in World ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...

) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily ... Wei( 北魏) Dynasty (386-534 C.E.), in China, refers to them as part ...

after United Nations supervised elections in 1948. The Soviet Union had ... of Korea), which declared its independence in September 1948. To the west ...

to the disposal of a human corpse by burning in a crematorium furnace or crematory ... reasoning may include the shortage of land in urban areas. ...

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