por pedroceinos | Jul 5, 2020 | culture
Buddha as a true man In the fourth chapter of India in the Chinese Imagination: Myth, Religion, and Thought (edited by John Kieschnick and Meir Shahar, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), Nobuyoshi Yamabe contributes an article (Indian Myth Transformed in a...
por pedroceinos | Jul 2, 2020 | books, culture
The Yu Garden in Shanghai: archetype of Chinese garden Pedro Ceinos Arcones. Yu garden in Shanghai: Archetype of Chinese garden. Dancing Dragons Books. 2019. (Excerpts from the book) The Yu Garden is Shanghai’s main monument and the one that best summarizes the...
por pedroceinos | Jun 30, 2020 | books, culture
the dog in China’s ancient tombs Pedro Ceinos Arcones. La Magia del perro en China y el mundo. Dancing Dragons Books. 2019. (Excerpts from the book) The dog in China’s ancient tombs In China, dogs buried with their owners have been discovered in archaeological sites...
por pedroceinos | Jun 29, 2020 | culture
SOME PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS IN BUDDHA’S TIMES Peter Harvey. Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices. Cambridge University Press. 2013. (Excerpts from the book. Page 11 and ff.) In its origin, Buddhism was a Samana-movement. Samanas were wandering ‘renunciant’...
por pedroceinos | Jun 28, 2020 | culture
The origin of chinese characters The origin of Chinese characters in John C. Didier, “In and Outside the Square,” Sino-Platonic Papers, 192, vol. 1 (September, 2009) The technology of writing appears suddenly and morphologically fully developed on Shang oracle bones...
por pedroceinos | Abr 2, 2020 | culture, travel
The Sacred Taishan mountain Taishan Mountain, life and death in Chinese culture, according to the work of Edouard Chavannes Mountains are, in China, divinities. They are considered as nature powers who act in a conscious way and who can, therefore, be made favourable...
