Author : Shengyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X030732155
Fa gu quan ji
Shengyan
Fa Gu Quan Ji
Fa Gu Quan Ji Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Fa Gu Quan Ji book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Fa gu quan ji
聖嚴
Author : 聖嚴
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X030732157
Fa gu quan ji by 聖嚴 Pdf
Contagion
Lawrence I. Conrad,Dominik Wujastyk
Author : Lawrence I. Conrad,Dominik Wujastyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351949248
Contagion by Lawrence I. Conrad,Dominik Wujastyk Pdf
Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present? What does the pre-modern terminology tell us about the conceptions of those times? How did medical thought relate to religious and social beliefs? The contributors reveal the complexity of ideas on these subjects, from antiquity through to the early modern world, from China to India, the Middle East, and Europe. Particular topics include attitudes to leprosy in the Old Testament and the medieval West, conceptions of smallpox etiology in China, witchcraft and sorcery as disease agents in ancient India, and the influence of classical Greek medical theory. An important conclusion is that non-medical perceptions are as crucial as medical ones in people’s beliefs about disease and the ways in which it can be combatted. Today we may not believe in the power of demons, but the idea that illness is retribution for sin retains great power, as was shown by the popular reaction to the spread of AIDS/HIV, and this is a lesson from the past that the medical profession would do well to heed.
Contemporary New Confucianism I
Qiyong Guo
Author : Qiyong Guo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000969160
Contemporary New Confucianism I by Qiyong Guo Pdf
As the first volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China, this book charts the development of this intellectual trend and examines four leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century. Contemporary New Confucianism refers to the Confucianism or Confucian thought that has emerged in China since the 1920s and that seeks to revive Confucian spirituality in a changing society. This volume first analyzes the cultural context, logical approach, major themes, and problems of New Confucianism before delving into the four leading figures, namely Liang Shumin, Xiong Shili, Ma Yifu, and Qian Mu. The chapter on Liang Shumin analyzes his concept of will, his arguments on Confucian moral ideals, and his theory of culture. It then discusses Xiong Shili's contribution to the philosophical metaphysics of New Confucianism. The following chapter on Ma Yifu examines his theory of the mind, nature, and the six arts. The final chapter on Qian Mu presents his views on nationality, history, and the Chinese classics. This title will appeal to scholars and students of modern and contemporary Confucianism, intellectual history, philosophy and thought of contemporary China, and comparative philosophy.
Between Deontology and Justice
Genyou Wu
Author : Genyou Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000750515
Between Deontology and Justice by Genyou Wu Pdf
In China, political philosophy is still a comparatively new academic discipline. While there is no such phrase as “political philosophy” in ancient Chinese texts, there are elements within them that could be considered part of that field. Central questions of Chinese ancient political philosophy include the legitimacy of the source of political power, the foundation of moral rationality for the use of political power, and the purpose of political activities. This book explores the ideas of rights, the foundations of law, transference of power, democracy and other topics as debated in ancient times. Focusing on important political thinkers in Chinese history, such as Kongzi, Laozi, Xu Fuguan, Liang Qichao, and Li Dazhao, the book explains characteristics that are particular to China, such as the system of abdication, the general will of the people, and the society of Great Harmony. While making comparisons between Chinese and Western political philosophy, the book also discusses how to establish a Chinese modern state and how to promote Chinese culture today so that it can influence more and more people around the world. The book will be a valuable reference for scholars of Chinese philosophy, political philosophy, and Chinese culture.
Chan Before Chan
Eric M. Greene
Author : Eric M. Greene
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824886875
Chan Before Chan by Eric M. Greene Pdf
What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth century. In sharp contrast to what would become typical in the later Chan School, early Chinese Buddhists approached the ancient Buddhist practice of meditation primarily as a way of gaining access to a world of enigmatic but potentially meaningful visionary experiences. In Chan Before Chan, Eric Greene brings this approach to meditation to life with a focus on how medieval Chinese Buddhists interpreted their own and others’ visionary experiences and the nature of the authority they ascribed to them. Drawing from hagiography, ritual manuals, material culture, and the many hitherto rarely studied meditation manuals translated from Indic sources into Chinese or composed in China in the 400s, Greene argues that during this era meditation and the mastery of meditation came for the first time to occupy a real place in the Chinese Buddhist social world. Heirs to wider traditions that had been shared across India and Central Asia, early medieval Chinese Buddhists conceived of “chan” as something that would produce a special state of visionary sensitivity. The concrete visionary experiences that resulted from meditation were understood as things that could then be interpreted, by a qualified master, as indicative of the mediator’s purity or impurity. Buddhist meditation, though an elite discipline that only a small number of Chinese Buddhists themselves undertook, was thus in practice and in theory constitutively integrated into the cultic worlds of divination and “repentance” (chanhui) that were so important within the medieval Chinese religious world as a whole.
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity
Beverely Bossler
Author : Beverely Bossler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170678
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity by Beverely Bossler Pdf
This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups—and of male discourses about them—transformed ideas about family relations and the proper roles of men and women. Courtesan culture had a profound effect on Song social and family life, as entertainment skills became a defining feature of a new model of concubinage, and as entertainer-concubines increasingly became mothers of literati sons. Neo-Confucianism, the new moral learning of the Song, was significantly shaped by this entertainment culture and by the new markets—in women—that it created. Responding to a broad social consensus, Neo-Confucians called for enhanced recognition of concubine mothers in ritual and expressed increasing concern about wifely jealousy. The book also details the surprising origins of the Late Imperial cult of fidelity, showing that from inception, the drive to celebrate female loyalty was rooted in a complex amalgam of political, social, and moral agendas. By taking women—and men’s relationships with women—seriously, this book makes a case for the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties.
Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese III
Liu Yuehua,Pan Wenyu,Gu Wei
Author : Liu Yuehua,Pan Wenyu,Gu Wei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000200201
Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese III by Liu Yuehua,Pan Wenyu,Gu Wei Pdf
Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners. This four-volume set is one of the earliest and most influential works of Chinese grammar, with a special focus on teaching and learning Chinese as a second language. Drawing on rich teaching experience, the authors analyze a myriad of real world examples to describe Chinese grammatical phenomena and rules while introducing the general grammar system of Chinese. This volume introduces sentence constituents in modern Chinese grammar, including subjects, objects, attributes, adverbials, complements, double references, and parentheses. Since the first edition came out in 1983, this set has been revised twice and remained one of the best sellers in the field. Practitioners and scholars of teaching Chinese as a second language, as well as students with a basic knowledge of Chinese, will find it to be a handy reference.
The Circulation of Elite Longquan Celadon Ceramics from China to Japan
Meili Yang
Author : Meili Yang
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782845966
The Circulation of Elite Longquan Celadon Ceramics from China to Japan by Meili Yang Pdf
Chinese Longquan celadon, a type of green-glazed ceramic, is one of the most famous branded and trade products, particularly during the 13th and 14th centuries. Its archaeological and historical materials possess multiple attributes with plentiful cultural information. The objective of the present book is to vivify these materials and provide a broader perspective and additional methodologies to review and gain a new and more profound understanding of Longquan celadon. The first part of this book focuses on elite Longquan celadon in China's Southern Song (1127-1278) and Yuan (1271-1368) periods. The second part focuses on elite Longquan celadon products as imports in medieval Japan. These products played a crucial role in shaping medieval Japanese culture.
Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road
Neville Agnew
Author : Neville Agnew
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060131
Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road by Neville Agnew Pdf
Neville Agnew, senior principal project specialist at the GCI, is the author of numerous publications in research chemistry and conservation, including (with two coauthors) the book Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road. --Book Jacket.
The Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy
Bo Mou
Author : Bo Mou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134249381
The Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy by Bo Mou Pdf
The History of Chinese Philosophy is a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the movements and thinkers that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last three thousand years. An outstanding team of international contributors provide seventeen accessible entries organised into five clear parts: Identity of Chinese Philosophy Classical Chinese Philosophy (I): Pre-Han Period Classical Chinese Philosophy (II): From Han Through Tang Classical Chinese Philosophy (III): From Song Through Early Qing Modern Chinese Philosophy: From Late Qing Through 21st Century This outstanding collection is essential reading for students of Chinese philosophy, and will be of interest to those seeking to explore the lasting significance this rich and complex philosophical tradition.
The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation
Eric M. Greene
Author : Eric M. Greene
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824886868
The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation by Eric M. Greene Pdf
In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of “meditation” (chan) in China. Although modern scholars and readers have long been familiar with the approaches to meditation of the Chan (Zen) School that later became so popular throughout East Asia, these earlier and in some ways more pervasive forms of practice have long been overlooked or ignored. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which these approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed: the Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan (Chan Essentials) and the Secret Methods for Curing Chan Sickness (Methods for Curing). Translated here into English for the first time, these documents reveal a distinctly visionary form of Buddhist meditation whose goal is the acquisition of concrete, symbolic visions attesting to the practitioner’s purity and progress toward liberation. Both texts are “apocryphal” scriptures: Taking the form of Indian Buddhist sutras translated into Chinese, they were in fact new compositions, written or at least assembled in China in the first half of the fifth century. Though written in China, their historical significance extends beyond the East Asian context as they are among the earliest written sources anywhere to record certain kinds of information about Buddhist meditation that hitherto had been the preserve of oral tradition and personal initiation. To this extent they indeed divulge, as their titles claim, the “secrets” of Buddhist meditation. Through them, we witness a culture of Buddhist meditation that has remained largely unknown but which for many centuries was widely shared across North India, Central Asia, and China.
Artificial Financial Intelligence in China
Dawei Zhao,Wenting Zhang
Author : Dawei Zhao,Wenting Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811655920
Artificial Financial Intelligence in China by Dawei Zhao,Wenting Zhang Pdf
This book starts from the application scenarios of artificial financial intelligence regulation, commercial banking, wealth management and payments, etc., and makes a detailed study of the main scenarios of the application of China's artificial intelligence in the financial field, and also analysis specific application cases of China.With the popularization of smart phones and the rapid development of e-commerce, mobile payment, big data and other technologies are in the ascendant in China in recent years. In particular, artificial intelligence technologies in the form of facial, speech and semantic recognition are showing preliminary advantages in the field of FinTech, and the future era of Intelligent Finance has quietly come. The Chinese government has clearly put forward "China should rely on a robust cycle of domestic demand and innovation as the main driver of the economy while maintaining foreign markets and investors as a second engine of growth", science and technology innovation is the basic motivation of economic and social cycle, to implement the " dual circulation strategy ", it is necessary to understand the key role of scientific and technological innovation in financial innovation services, and improve financial services must be driven by science and technology. There is a natural relationship between artificial intelligence and financial services, because financial services are credit and information intermediaries, and data is the most critical for finance, while artificial intelligence has a super ability in dealing with complex data. At present, many Chinese Banks have applied artificial intelligence to their daily operations and management, such as accurate customer identification, enhanced process tracking, intelligent marketing, and product process transformation, so as to simplify financial service processes and shorten service cycles. In General, this book both pays attention to practical application and theoretical, which is a useful reference book in theoretical research and practical work, and also helps readers to understand the application of intelligent finance in China.
G.K. Hall Bibliographic Guide to East Asian Studies
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : East Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024627643
G.K. Hall Bibliographic Guide to East Asian Studies by Anonim Pdf
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development
Xiaolong Li,Chunhui Yuan,John Kent
Author : Xiaolong Li,Chunhui Yuan,John Kent
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811905643
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development by Xiaolong Li,Chunhui Yuan,John Kent Pdf
The proceedings consist of papers accepted by the 5th ICEMGD, which are carefully selected and reviewed by professional reviewers from corresponding research fields and the editing committee of the conference. The papers have a diverse range of topics situated at the intersecting field of Economic Management, Public Administration and Green Development. ICEMGD is working to provide a platform for international participants from fields like macro- and microeconomics, international economics, finance, agricultural economics, health economics, business management and marketing strategies, regional development studies, social governance, and sustainable development. This proceedings volume, together with the conference, looks forward to spark inspirations and promote collaborations. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals and policy makers in the field of economic management, public administration, and development studies. Due to COVID-19, ICEMGD was held online on 12-17 August, 2021.
