por pedroceinos | Ene 3, 2026 | books, culture
An ambitious project to rewrite history An ambitious project to rewrite history. It is what we see in Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene, The Nomadic Leviathan. A Critique of the Sinocentric Paradigm. Brill. Leiden. 2023. Now free to download in the publisher’s webpage. This book...
por pedroceinos | Ene 2, 2026 | books, culture
Why I devoted more than a year to researching suicide in Chinese culture Why I devoted more than a year to researching suicide in Chinese culture In early November 2022 my friend, the psychiatrist Luz González Sánchez, told me that she was preparing a lecture on...
por pedroceinos | Ene 2, 2026 | travel
The Kumbum of Gyantse and the secret of the ancient Buddhist temples The Kumbum of Gyantse and the secret of the ancient Buddhist temples Almost everyone who visits Tibet with enough time includes Gyantse in their itinerary, and in this city, a visit to its famous...
por pedroceinos | Dic 26, 2025 | culture
The Tibetan Deity with a Horse Face The Tibetan Deity with a Horse Face During my most recent journey to Tibet, someone pointed out to me in a temple a deity who bore a small horse upon his head. I knew that this protector is called Hayagriva, and that he is sometimes...
por pedroceinos | Dic 19, 2025 | culture
The Horse God as One of the Most Popular Deities in China The Horse God as One of the Most Popular Deities in China If a visitor goes to the Great Wall at Juyongguan, the section closest to Beijing and one of the most historically significant, and takes the time to...
