Search Results - "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society"

A Sign of the End Time: 'The Monastery', Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi H.2153 f.131b by WHITE, JAMES

“…Studies of visual culture in the Persian-speaking world of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries frequently discuss the literary contexts in which painting…”
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The Figures of Kōho and Li-mi-i, and the Origins of the Case for a Christian Missionary Presence in Tenpyō Era Japan by MORRIS, JAMES HARRY

“…In 1916 P.Y. Saeki devoted a page of his book “The Nestorian Monument in China,” to a short thought experiment which linked a Persian by the name of Li-mi-i…”
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“Those were the hungry years”: A glimpse of Coastal Afro-Balochi by KORN, AGNES, NOURZAEI, MARYAM

“…The aim of the present paper is to describe the morphosyntactic properties of Iranian Coastal Balochi as spoken by the Afro-Balochi community. The Afro-Baloch…”
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Did Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Destroy the Fatimids' Books? An Historiographical Enquiry by BORA, FOZIA

“…A persistent myth featuring in some modern accounts of the transition from Fatimid to Ayyubid rule (1169–71) is that one of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn's (r. 1171–93) first…”
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The Maritime Routes Between China and the Indian Ocean During the Second to Ninth Centuries c.e by HAW, STEPHEN G.

“…The interpretation of history is often a complex task. All too often, sources are misinterpreted because of historians’ preconceptions. This article takes…”
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The Last Campaign and Death of Jebe Noyan by POW, STEPHEN

“…Despite Jebe Noyan's importance to the expansion of Chinggis Khan's empire, the Mongol general remains a shadowy figure. In part this stems from the absence of…”
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The Yogīs' Latest Trick by MALLINSON, JAMES

“…David Gordon White's wide-ranging scholarship on tantra, yoga and alchemy has inspired many students and scholars to undertake research in those fields. White…”
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Tibetan √lan ‘reply’ by HILL, NATHAN W., ZADOKS, ABEL

“…Recognising the parallelism between the conjugation of a verb such as √lug ‘pour’ (pres. ldug, past blugs, fut. blug, imp. lhugs ‘pour’ and a verb such as √kru…”
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A “Black Cult” in Early Medieval China: Iranian-Zoroastrian Influence in the Northern Dynasties by CHEN, SANPING, MAIR, VICTOR H

“…Through an analysis of Chinese theophoric names - a genre that emerged in the early medieval period largely under heavy Iranian-Sogdian influence - we suggest…”
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Architectural Design at Bagan and Angkor: A Comparison by KOLLER, ALEXANDER

“…This study looks at the crucial features of Cambodian and Burmese monumental architecture at the peak of the two empires. By necessity, the overwhelming…”
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The Early History of the Boxer Codex by CROSSLEY, JOHN N.

“…In 1950 this journal published Charles Boxer's description of the Codex that bears his name and is now in the Lilly Library in Bloomington, Indiana. In this…”
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Circulating Scholarship: A Note on a Sanskrit Letter from Bengal circa 1535 ce by WRIGHT, SAMUEL

“…This note examines a Sanskrit letter from Bengal dating to approximately 1535 ce. The letter was assumed to be lost. Addressed to a scholar in the discipline…”
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Running Away from the Palace: Chinese Eunuchs during the Qing Dynasty by DALE, MELISSA S.

“…By exploring cases of runaway eunuchs, this paper aims to contribute to understandings of unfree status during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and more broadly to…”
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A comparison of the Pāli and Chinese versions of the Kassapa Saṃyutta, a collection of early Buddhist discourses on the Venerable Kāśyapa by MUN-KEAT, CHOONG

“…This article first briefly examines the textual structure of the Kassapa Saṃyutta of the Pāli Saṃyutta-nikāya in conjunction with two other versions preserved…”
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A Theoretical Component of Political Inegalitarianism in Perso-Islamicate Thought by SHOMALI, ALIREZA

“…The disparity of human intellects dictum imposes an a priori limit of thinking and imagining that partially precludes the emergence of democratic thought in…”
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The Buddha's Biography: Its Development in the Pagan Murals vs. the Later Vernacular Literature, in the Theravādin Buddhist Context of Southeast Asia by POOLSUWAN, SAMERCHAI

“…An investigation is provided on the narration of the Buddha's biography in Burmese murals of the Pagan Period (eleventh to thirteenth century ce). It detects a…”
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On Equal Terms: The Equivocal Origins of an Early Mughal Indo-Persian Vocabulary by HAKALA, WALTER N.

“…The Qaṣīdah dar Luġhāt-i Hindī (‘A Qaṣīdah on Hindī Terms’), composed in the early sixteenth century, is an unusual example of the niṣāb genre of multilingual…”
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Traditional Khmer Systems of Forest Management by SWIFT, PETER, COCK, ANDREW

“…Aid donors, civil society groups and the Cambodian government have tended to focus their policy initiatives concerned with communities and their forests on…”
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Development without Decolonisation? Hong Kong's Future and Relations with Britain and China, 1967–1972 by MARK, CHI-KWAN

“…At a time when the United Kingdom accelerated decolonisation and slowly embraced Europe, London gradually lost the means and the will to fulfil its…”
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Monotheism the Zoroastrian Way by HINTZE, ALMUT

“…This article examines seemingly monotheistic, polytheistic and dualistic features of Zoroastrianism from the point of view of the Zoroastrian creation myth…”
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