492 Index
Seondeok, Queen, 357
Separatists, in Xinjiang, 101
Sepoy rebellion (1857), 451,
452(illus.)
Sepoys, British East India
Company and, 172, 451
Seppuku (hara kiri), 332,
333(illus.)
Serpents
horned (Yato no kami), 305
as Thai deities, 401
Servants, ancestor worship
and, 282
Sexuality
of Buddhist monks, 405
of Indian women, 186
Shaiva devotion, 205–206
Shaka Trinity, 316
Shakti (Devi), 197
Shakyamuni, 351
Shakya tribe, 210
Shamanism, shamans, shama-
nesses
Genghis Khan’s, 97
Hmong, 53, 121,
124(illus.), 135–138
Japanese, 303, 307
Korean, 347, 348, 349–353,
363
Shamans, Housewives, and Other
Restless Spirits (Kendall),
352
Shan, 49, 53, 461
Shandong Province, 254, 255,
347, 355
Shangdi (Emperor of Heaven),
68
Shang dynasty, 20, 55, 68, 78
Anyang cemetery and,
246–248
bronze use in, 248–249
nobility in, 249–250
Shanghai, 20
Shang Yang, 263
Shansi, 125
Shanxi, 26
Shaolin monastery, 273
Sharia, 221, 225, 392
Shatter regions, 109
Sheep, 78
Shelley, Mary and Percy, 26
Sheng Miao, 118
Shenshi
in China, 263–267, 282
Japanese samurai and, 333,
335
Shensi Province, 125
Shi (shih), in Han and Tang
dynasties, 264–265
Shia Islam, 220, 223, 224–225
Shichishito (seven-pronged
sword), 303
Shiji (Records of the Grand
Historian) (Sima Qian),
245, 259, 305, 348
Shimabara, 445
Shingon Buddhism, 335, 336
Shinto, 299, 309–313, 336
folk, 304–305
imperial, 307–308
Ships and shipping. See Mari-
time trade/travel
Shirakawa Palace, 330
Shishen, 312
Shiva, 7, 25, 168, 188, 197,
387, 399
bhakti devotion to, 205–206
Ganges and, 13, 21
lingams of, 384, 386
in Southeast Asia, 372, 383
Shoen, 326, 327
Shogunate, 327, 446
Christian converts and,
444–445
samurai class and, 328–335
and Western incursion,
466–467
Shomu, Emperor, 317, 318
Shosan (Suzuki Shosan), 337,
339
Shotoku, Empress, 317
Shotoku, Prince, 310, 313,
318, 319
Buddhism and, 315–316
Showa Emperor, 309
Shravasti, 211
Shrines
Buddhist, 207–208
Japanese, 297(illus.), 303,
305, 310(illus.), 311kami, 303, 309
Korean, 364
Zhou dynasty, 252
Shudras, 167, 173, 174, 180,
198, 200
Shu Miao, 118
Shwebo, 461
Siam. See Thailand
Siamese, and Ayutthaya,
461–462
Sichuan province, 15, 54
Siddha, 216
Siddhartha Gautama, 164,
198, 210, 271, 316
Sierglung (spirit), 134
Sikh Empire, 229
Sikhism, Sikhs, 144, 180, 193,
231
Guru Nanak and, 227–228
identifying markers of,
228–229
Khalistan movement,
229–230
Silk
paper made from, 61
in Shang dynasty, 249
trade in, 85–86, 87
Silk Roads, 18–19, 21(map),
442–443
people on, 78–79
religions on, 90–91, 92
trade on, 85–87, 389
travelers on, 87–90
Silla kingdom, 314, 347, 354,
355, 356, 358
Silver, 132, 447, 455
Sima Qian, 19, 87, 117, 149,
308
on Confucius and Laozi,
254–255
as Grand Historian,
245–246
Shiji, 245, 259, 305
Singapore, 112, 371, 377, 391,
458
Singaporeans, Singaporean-
ess, 112
Singh, as Sikh male name, 228
Singh, Guru Gobind, 228, 229
Singh, Naian, 18