Heinz-Murray 2E.book

472 Index

Brief Explanation of the Vow
Made at White Flower
Enlightenment Site, 357
Britain. See Great Britain
British Colonial Period
(India), 157
British Empire, 415, 435, 444,
446–447
and Burma, 122–123, 462,
465
and India, 143, 171–172,
223, 225, 229, 448–452
opium trade, 123, 456–457
Orientalism, 439–441
and Southeast Asia, 371,
435, 458–461
British Indian Army, Sikhs in,
229
British Museum, 62, 64
Bronze work, 95(illus.), 235,
304, 380
Shang dynasty, 248–249
Bronze Age, 149
Brooke, Charles (White Raja),
415, 461
Brooke, James, 415, 460
Brooke, Vyner, 461
Brooke family, 415
Brunei, 377, 415
Buchanan, Francis, 113, 207
Budai (Pu-tai; Hemp Sack), 271
Buddha, 6, 46, 88, 164, 193,
197, 207, 209, 211, 215,
317
bodhisattvas of, 336, 351,
355, 357–358
depictions of, 151, 216,
217–218(illus.),
268(illus.), 271,
273(illus.), 315,
357–358, 372
history of, 149–150
life of, 209–213, 231n1
relics of, 61, 165
and Vishnu, 168, 208
Buddhahood, achieving, 215,
271, 337
Buddhism, Buddhists, 4, 6, 21,
45, 59, 167, 193, 198,
215(map), 263, 275, 389

anti-intellectual, 271–272

Ashoka’s propagation of,

165–166

in China, 5, 87–88, 236,

267–273, 274

in East Asia, 235–236

female monks, 407–408

four periods of, 213–216

in India, 149–150, 151,

169, 207–209

in Japan, 45, 299, 314–318,

335–341

in Korea, 347, 349, 350,

355–358

Mahayana, 90–91

sacred texts and, 60–61

and Silk Road, 78, 90

in Southeast Asia, 166, 372

in Thailand, 375(illus.),

389, 394

Thai popular religion and,

400–408

Three Jewels of, 209–213

Tibetan, 98, 102–103

Buddhist Dark Age, 317

Buffalo horns, in divination,

135(illus.)

Bug Festival (musi-okuri) festi-

val, 306

Bugis, 371

Bun, 403

Bunbangfai, 402

Bun Kathin, 401

Bun Khaw Saak, 401

Bun Phraawes, 401, 402

Bureaucracy

in China, 8, 264–267

Chinese Communist Party,

284–285

Choson Dynasty, 359–360

Confucian elites, 264–267

in Korea, 359–360

Bureau of Standard Sounds

(Korea), 72

Burial practices, burials, 92,

93, 235, 317, 372

Hmong, 127, 128–131

Japanese imperial,

311–312

jars used in, 381–382

Burkhan Khaldun, as sacred

area, 97–98

Burma (Myanmar), 27, 48, 49,

54, 108, 117, 126, 143,

209, 372, 377, 380,

461–462

British colonization of,

371, 465

script in, 64, 66

terraced farming in,

122–123

Burmese, 109

Burmese language, 57

Burqa, 182

Bush, George H. W., 311

Bushido, 328, 334, 340

Byron, Lord, 26

Byzantine Empire, 86

Cakravartin, 213, 214

Cakri dynasty, 388, 398, 399

Calcutta, 145, 191(illus.), 226,

449, 454

British East India Com-

pany, 171, 448, 339

Calendar, Bali ritual, 33

Calicut, 415, 442, 443

Camels, 78, 81(illus.)

Cambodia, 108, 116, 371, 372,

377, 380

colonialism in, 464–466

Cambodians, 109

Canada, Hmong in, 116

Canals, in China, 20–21

Cannons, Mongol invention

of, 97

Canons, Buddhist, 61, 269,

394, 404

Canton, 415, 453, 454, 455,

456

Cantonese Chinese, 55

Canterbury Tales, The (Chau-

cer), 96

Cao Wei dynasty, 355

Capital, family, 277

Capitalism, in China, 245

Caravans, 18, 78, 90, 97, 389

Carlitz, Katherine, “Desire,

Danger, and the Body,”

290