Encyclopedia of Religion

T’AI-HSÜ SEE TAIXU TAIJI. In the Yi jing (Book of Changes; a wisdom book in ancient China that is widely believed to have been a ...

Great Ultimate, although symbolizing the principle of activi- ty and tranquility, is not directly involved in the creative trans ...

TAIPING (“great peace” or “great equity”) denotes a pan- Chinese social ideal and utopian slogan of rebels and dynasty founders. ...

New Sources Prazniak, Roxann. Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels against Modernity in Late Imperial China. Lanham, Md ...

haps most important of all, the South Seas Buddhist Associa- tion. Nevertheless, Chinese Buddhists monastics managed to preserve ...

The Presbyterians continued to build and manage hos- pitals, as well as the Happy Mount Leprosy Colony (founded in northern Taiw ...

nese overlords. Today, although many Taiwanese have adopted different forms of vegetarian diets, the overall influ- ence of vege ...

At the same time, since Taiwan began to democratize during the 1980s, temple cults have been more than passive observers of mode ...

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/index.cfm? id=26.2. See also the Council of Indigenous Peoples website (www.apc ...

headquarters of the Chinese Buddhist Association in the war years, 1937 to 1945. During the war, Taixu led a Chinese Buddhist mi ...

earlier. The first part relates how the witch Ceridwen con- centrated her learning in three drops of a brew which she pre- pared ...

of the specific laws and their underlying principles. Such dis- cussions in turn eventually gave rise to a new generation of leg ...

more scholars, it became the subject of more and of better commentaries; it was copied more often and more carefully by larger n ...

early period, this meant reaching an accommodation with the real rulers of the community (e.g., the Roman empire or, in Babyloni ...

His main work is Sefer ha-yashar (Vienna, 1811), which includes his halakhic responsa (annotated Berlin, 1898) and his novellae, ...

ity, and color of the land. The summum bonum of the reli- gious experience was expressed in terms of possession by the god, or e ...

or devotion to god and the possibility of anyone’s attaining the god’s grace regardless of one’s station; (4) the sense of commu ...

entranceways at each site. The temple, further, became a cen- ter for economic exchange, storage of land and goods, and social i ...

The harbinger of this post-Co ̄ ̄ la trend was Arun:akirina ̄tar (c. 1475–1550). His poetry was characterized by an ingenious us ...

speaking peoples was marginal. By the late sixteenth century, however, Christian missionaries had begun to influence Tamil lette ...