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Transcending Patterns

Gasparini, Mariachiara / Yang, Anand A / Matteson, Kieko
Transcending Patterns
In 'Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles', Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through the analysis of the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin and more than a thousand textiles held in collections worldwide, ...

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Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet

Caple, Jane E / Rowe, Mark Michael
Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet
The speed and extent of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic revival make it one of the most extraordinary stories of religious resurgence in post-Mao China. At the end of the 1970s, there were no working monasteries, within a decade, thousands had been reconstructed and repopulated. Most studies have focused on the political challenges facing Tibetan monasteries, emphasizing their relationship to the Chinese state. Yet, in their efforts to revive an...

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Cosmology and Logic in the DAO of Changes

Ma, Baoshan / Wen, Haiming / Hale, Christine A / Cheng, Chung-Ying
Cosmology and Logic in the DAO of Changes
The Book of Changes (Yijing, also known as I Ching) is generally recognized as the oldest among the ancient Chinese classics, tracing back to the yin-yang symbolic system that, according to traditional mythology, was created by the legendary Fu Xi (mid-29th century BCE). The Yijing's mystical origins and the dynamic nature of its image-numbers--the various diagrams, trigrams, and hexagrams--gave rise to subsequent interpretations by sages over...

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