494 Index
Suma, Genji in, 323–324
Sumana, 394
Sumatra, 24, 27, 50, 380
Sumbawa Island, 25
Sumer, 153
Sumi-e, 340
Sunan Bonang, 393
Sunda Shelf, 23, 24(map)
Sunda Straits, 24
Sun Goddess. See Amaterasu
Sun Myung Moon, 362
Sunni Islam, 169, 220, 225
Sun worship, in Korea, 309
Sun Wukong (Monkey King),
89
Sunyata (emptiness) doctrine,
337–338
Surnames
Chinese lineages, 281, 282,
289
Hmong, 127
Japanese, 326, 365–366
Suryavarman, 386
Suryavarman II, 387
Susanoo (god of storms), 300,
307
Su Shi (Su Shih), 292
Sutlej River, 229
Sutra of the Thousand-armed
Thousand-eyed Bodhisattva
Avalokiteshvara, 357, 358
Sutras, 357
from Cave of the Thousand
Buddhas, 63, 64
copying, 61, 316–317
Suvarnabhumi (Land of
Gold), 383
Suvarnadvip (Islands of
Gold), 383
Suzuki, The Training of the Zen
Buddhist Monk, 340
Suzuki, D. T., 336, 338
Suzuki Shosan, 339
Diamond-Hard Wisdom of
Mind, 337
Swanaj, 172
Swidden cultivation, 30,
31–32, 121, 122, 380
Syllabic language systems, 64,
66, 72
Szechuan, opium production
in, 125–126Tabon, 381
Tachibana family, 326
Taebacksan, Mount, 348
Tai ethnolinguistic group, 53,
379
Taifeng (Inchon), 301, 302
Taiheiki, 330
Taiho Reforms, 325
Tai-Kadai language, 48, 51, 53
Taika Reforms, 319–320
Taiping Rebellion (1851), 363,
458
Taira family, 299, 326, 327,
330, 333
Taira Kiyomori, 327
Taiwan, 48, 53, 236, 243, 284,
302, 381
Austro-Tai languages in,
49, 50
Tajikistan, 78, 83
Tajiks, 85, 100
Taj Mahal, 171
Takamimusubi (kami), 309
Takeda Shingen, 336–337
Taklamakan, 17–18
Taksin, 462
Talchum (Korean mask
dance), 352–353
Tale of Genji, The (Murasaki
Shikibu), 321–323, 332
illustration of, 324–325
Tale of the 47 Loyal Ronin, The,
328
Tambiah, Stanley J., 394, 400
Tambora, eruption of, 25–26
Tamil, 66, 206
Tana Toraja, 8
Tang dynasty (China), 79,
264, 314, 355, 389
Buddhism and, 267–268,
272, 273
Confucianism and, 263,
290
Tangs, 280
He lineage, 281, 282
Tang Taizong, 274
Tantra, 216Tantric Buddhism, 216
Taoism. See Daoism
Tao Te Ching. See Daodejing
Tapp, Nicholas, 121, 128, 131
Tapubaan, 401, 402
Tarim Basin, 17
Taxation
in Angkor, 386
in India, 152, 172
in Japan, 319, 320,
325–326
Taxila, 164, 165
Tayichiud, 97
Taylor, Bayard, 453
Taylor, Jay, 8
Tea, 45, 455
Tea ceremony (Japan), 341
Tectonic plates, earthquakes
and, 15, 16(map), 17
Temmu-Jito line (Japan),
308–309
Temple of the Crater Lake, 33
Temples, 197, 274, 372, 400
in Angkor, 386–387
Buddhist, 207–209,
210(illus.), 340
Emerald Buddha, 398, 399
Hindu, 197
in India, 202–207
Japanese, 299, 310(illus.),
316–317
Korean, 357, 360
Te mu j i n. See Genghis Khan
Tendai Buddhism, 335–336,
444
Tergi (chant), 129
Termite mounds, Hmong spir-
its in, 134
Terrace cultivation, 32,
122–123
Terra-cotta army, of Qin Shi-
huang, 149, 247, 260,
261(illus.)
Tesasserim, 462
Tethys Sea, 15
Textile trade, 447, 450
Te x t s, 8
Buddhist, 87–88, 269
fragility of, 60–61
Thai kingdoms, 388–389