Edward W.
"(T)he very foundations of our studies: The recovery and the study of texts as they are, regardless of our tastes and prejudices"- O.Neugebauer.
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(as @Punished_Jom pointed out, I made an error above. the Jade Emperor is seen as an analog of Indra. From Bony Schachter's Beyond the Kingly Metaphor: A Sociological Reading of th...
I was reading Goossaert's excellent _Making the Gods speak_, when an interesting thought came on me. Unlike Buddhism, the corpus of canonical texts for Daoism has never really clos...
an interesting thread: the concept of 'freedom of the press' exists simply because European style printing presses are really bulky and hence vulnerable to state attacks. the same...
if you read singaporean constitutuonal law books there are referenes to the fact that strict checks and balances are unnecessary there because of the 'asian tradition' of governme...
Following @saul_mondriaan's request for consecration rituals, I have just translated outlines of a pair of consecration rituals from a Chinese Ritual manual called "εΌε ε€§ε ¨β Kaigu...