496 Index
Tripitaka (Xuanzang), 88–89
True Awakening, 211
Tsunamis, from Krakatau
eruption, 24
Tu Duc, 464
Tulsidas, 207
Tuoba Turks, 267, 268
Turfan, 86
Turkey, Proto-Indo-European
languages in, 45
Turkic people, Turks, 8, 9,
78–79, 97, 102
Turkish language, 48
Turkmenistan, 78
Turks, 145, 169, 220
Turner, J. M. W., 26
Turtle ship, 364
Tusita Heaven, 355
2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 92
Uighurs (Uyghurs), 36, 77,
100–101
Uji (clans), 303, 304
Uka no kami, 306
Umma, 226–227
Unclean castes, 198–200
UNESCO World Heritage
sites, Koguryo royal
tombs, 237
Unfederated Malay States,
460
Unification Church, 362
Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), 78,
85, 366
United Nations Working
Group on Indigenous
People, 111
United States, 126, 237, 366,
457
Hmong in, 115, 116, 120,
133
Japan and, 466, 467
and Philippines, 371, 377
Untouchables, social position
of, 178–179
Upanishads, 6, 149, 160, 164
Katha, 194–196
Urban society
early states and, 152–153
in Indus Valley, 153–154,
156–157
U San Htwe, 57
Utagawa Toyokuni, 329
Uzbekistan, 78, 83
Uzbeks, 85, 100Vairocana (bodhisattva), 336
Vaishyas (varna), 160, 167,
173, 174, 180, 200
Vajiralongkom, 396
Vajrayana Buddhism, 198,
218(illus.), 219
Valmiki, 163, 164, 398
Vanaprastha, 202
Van g Pao, 11 6
Varanasi (Banaras), 160,
201(illus.), 202, 209
Varley, H. Paul, 324
Varnas, 160, 167, 174–175,
180
Varuna (Uruvna), 159, 197
Vedas, 46, 149, 157,
158(illus.), 159, 384
Vedic Age, 157
kingdoms, 159–160,
163–164
Rama and, 161–163
Upanishadic thought,
94–196
Vedic language, 46
Verbiest, Ferdinand, 445
Vereenigde Oostindische
Compagnie (VOC). See
East India Company
(Dutch)
Vespasian, 384
Victoria, Queen, as Empress
of India, 172, 452
Videha, 149, 159
Vietnam, 23, 29, 108, 118,
209, 372, 377, 380, 381,
389, 390
Christianity in, 445–446
colonial powers and, 371,
463–464
Hmong in, 117, 120
Nguyen dynasty in,
445–446
Vietnamese language, 49, 53Vietnamese (people), 109
Vietnam War, 116, 126, 381
Villages
caste system in, 176–178
Hmong, 120–122
Vinaya, 213
Vinaya Pitika, 404
Violence, 372, 447
Xinjiang-related, 101–102
Virupaksha Temple, 204(illus.)
Vishnu, 7, 168, 197, 208, 372,
383, 385
Volcanoes, volcanism, South-
east Asian, 23–27
Voramai Kabilsingh, 407Wa, Qu e en of. See Himiko,
Queen
Wab i, 341
Wade-Giles system, 71
Wahhab, Shaykh Muhammad
ibn ‘Abd al-, 225
Wahhabism, 225
Waley, Arthur, and Tale of
Genji, 321
Wallace’s Line, 23, 37n2
Wallerstein, Immanuel, 443
Wang Yirong, and dragon
bone writing, 67–68, 246
Wang Yuan-lu, 62
Wani (scholar), 305
Wa pe opl e, 3 01
War, warfare, 5, 83, 165, 175,
229, 252, 330
British East India Com-
pany and, 171–172, 451
in Burma, 123, 462
in China, 274–275
and Dayak longhouses,
417–418
Korea, 355, 366
in Mahabharata, 162–163
padi states, 108–109
War canoes, on Sarawak, 418
Warlords, 123, 125–126
War ri ng S tate s Perio d
(China), 252
Warrior class, in Japan,
328–335
Warrior-kings, at Angkor, 386