Dust in the Wind is a beautiful 2006 book published by a Taiwanese magazine. The editors in 1987 sent 5 teams of reporters and photographers…
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Tag: Buddhist History (Books)
Tibetan Buddhism Explored: Insights from Five Books
How was Buddhism spread to Tibet? How did Tibetan Buddhism evolve and assimilate with Tibetan’s native and animistic beliefs? Is Tibetan Buddhism now the purest…
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Bound with Love
Bound with Love- Letters Home from China 1935-1945 is a gem of a book. The letters here are extracted from about 1000 letters written from…
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Tracing Buddhism’s Journey into China
How Buddhism, a foreign religion, became Chinese? This is such a vast daunting topic that no recent historians have attempted to write a chronological history…
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The Transformative Journey of Chinese Buddhism
When Buddhism spread to China from India it evolved to respond to the challenges posed by an older philosophy/ religion then existing in China known…
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China’s Spiritual Tapestry
The histories of Taoism and Buddhism in China as well as the interactions between Tibetan Buddhism and the Qing emperors are areas of growing interest…
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The Golden Urn – Part 1
The Golden Urn refers to an urn made at the instruction of Emperor Chian Lung when he was in his Summer Palace in Chengde. He…
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Buddhist holy sites: A visit
Sukhothai is an ancient Buddhist city. Its sights are on par with Angkor Wat, Borobudur, and Bagan. Secondary sites are Ayutthaya, Rangoon and Prambanan Hindu…
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China: The Republican Era
The era between Imperial China and Socialist China is called the Republican era. From 1900 to 1949 the ordinary Chinese sought to improve their lives,…
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Introduction to Western specialists on China’s history (Part 5)
Susan Naquin is an American professor of history at Princeton University. She specialises in late Imperial China history. Here are 4 of her books. They…
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