The Guodian manuscripts and their place in twentieth-century historiography on the Laozi
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The Guodian manuscripts were unearthed (1993) and published (1998) have already been hailed as being of startling significance for the study of early Chinese intellectual history. Participants in international conferences in both the United States and China have expressed the belief that these collection of texts inscribed on bamboo slips about 300 B.C. will provide the evidence needed to resolve some of the most perplexing problems in the study of China and it is the Laozi texts that have attracted the most attention to date in the West.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2005
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Pancavarsika assemblies in Liang Wudi's Buddhist Palace Chapel
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With the aim of investigating the relationship between Liang Wudi a Chinese King Asoka, and Buddhism, a Buddhist palace chapel installed within Wudi's palace complex and various politico-religious activities held there are focused on. Extreme tensions between different sociopolitical and religious forces of that period are illuminated and while identifying a common paradigm underlying the dharma-assemblies, the pancavarsika's impact on Empress Wu is studied.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2006
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Symbolic discourse in Eastern Han memorial art: The case of the Birchleaf Pear
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Students new to the study of early Chinese art and religion often encounter the image of an elegant, symmetrically shaped tree found on Eastern Han memorial shrines. The arboreal image back to the ancient poem Birchleaf Pear, is explored which exhorts future generations to safeguard the tree because the Duke of Shao had rested there and shows that in Han literary texts stands for long-lived physical things that survive into the present.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2005
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