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Search site. From Disciples to Student-Monks: Educational Modernization and Identity Production in Chinese Buddhism. Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. From Disciples to Student-Monks: Educational Modernization and Identity Production in Chinese Buddhism. Venue:. Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity. Event date:. Tuesday, 14 May, 2024 - 14:00. Event organiser:. Launched in September, 2121, the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series (印證佛學傑出學術系列講座) is a collaborative, multi-university partnership between Peking University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Harvard University, University of British Columbia, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. The Lecture Series is established in honour of Venerable Cheng-yen 證嚴, founder of Tzu Chi, and her mentor Yinshun 印順 (1906–2005), with the goal of promoting topics in Buddhist studies. The series is organised at Cambridge by Dr Noga Ganany with the generous support of the Tzu Chi Foundation. This lecture in the series is given by Dr Rongdao Lai 釋融道, McGill University, Canada with discussant Dr Stefania Travagnin 史芬妮 SOAS, University of London. Monastic education was one of the most important aspects of the

Chinese Works : Yi yu tu zhi. Chinese Works. <p style='text-align: justify;'>This is the sole surviving copy of a work which under several guises enjoyed a wide circulation in China from the late fifteenth century onwards but gradually disappeared as an independent entity, being incorporated instead into popular encyclopaedias.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The work is similar in nature to the bestiaries of mediaeval Europe. It contains illustrations of 168 countries or peoples, each with an accompanying text, as well as an appendix which comprises, in addition to a list of 31 further places without illustrations, woodcuts of one bird and 14 animals, each named but without explanatory texts.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The entries are a mixture of real and imaginary countries. Those which can be identified with some certainty, in addition to areas now incorporated in the terrritory of China itself, include peoples located in East, Central, North, Southeast and West Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Among the fabulous entries some are familiar from the European tradition, such as the Land of Dogs, or "Cannibals that each other eat, the Anthrophagi, and men whose heads

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Japanese Works : Rinjikyaku ōsetsu. 和田信定述、和田信篤・増田敬哉筆記. Japanese Works. of. Want to know more? Under the 'More' menu you can find metadata about the item, and information about sharing this image. No Contents List Available. Item Metadata. No Metadata Available. Transcription. Translation. Share. If you want to share this page with others you can send them a link to this individual page:. Alternatively please share this page on social media. You can also embed the viewer into your own website or blog using the code below:. Do you want to create a bookmark for this page in 'My Library'? The images contained in the pdf download have the following copyright:. Download. Cancel. This will create a PDF with thumbnail images for all pages, and may take some time for large documents. The images contained in this document have the following copyright:. Download. This image has the following copyright:. Choose one of the available sizes to download:. Default (2000px). Download. Cancel. This metadata has the following copyright:. Do you want to download metadata for this document?

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Joseph Needham : Joseph Needham's journal of his tour in North-West China, Aug.7-Dec.14, 1943. Joseph Needham. <p style='text-align: justify;'>In this journal, Dr. Needham records his journey in a truck from Chungking (重慶 Chongqing) to Lanchow (蘭州 Lanzhou) via Chengtu (成都 Chengdu), then up through Gansu province to Tunhuang (敦煌 Dunhuang) and back. [Full itinerary]. On the first leg of the journey to Lanchow, he was accompanied by SBSCO staff members H.T. Huang (Huang Hsing-Tsung / Huang Xingzong) 黃興宗 and Liao Hung-Ying (Liao Hongying) 廖鴻英, as well as Derek Bryan from the British Embassy, Edward Beltz, an American oil geologist, and a young scientist Chen Tzu-hsin (Chen Zixin) 陳自信. In another truck travelled the famous explorer Sir Eric Teichman (1884-1944). From Lanchow to Chienfodong and back he was accompanied by H.T. Huang (who travelled back to Lanchow separately), Rewi Alley (1897-1987), Sun Kuang-chun (Sun Guangjun) 孫光俊 and Wang Wan-sheng (Wang Wansheng) 王萬盛, two boys from the Lanchow Bailie School 蘭州培黎學校, the painter Wu Tso-Rjen (Wu Zuoren) 吳作人, as well as a driver, Kuang Wei 鄺威, and a mechanic from Lanchow Yu Te-hsin (Yu Dexin) 宇德新. While at

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气候变化——事关人人 对于投资者和金融机构的影响政府间气候变化委员会（IPCC ）第五次评估报告（ AR5 ）的主要发现 更多信息，请访问 cisl.cam.ac.uk/ipcc. 气候变化：投资者和金融机构. 气候变化会引入无法预知的风险，从而对投资产生重大的影响。抑制. 气候变化的政策同样可能影响投资。然而，在可再生能源和能源效率. 等领域也可能出现机遇 。. 应对气候变化. 由于气候变化的影响，投资者和金融机构将. 继续面临下行风险（调整顺序）。投资可能. 造成个别资产价值大幅下跌，银行信誉和客. 户偿还能力降低。然而，气候变化的影响也. 可能促成新的开始和机遇。. 影响. 实体风险和政策措施可能对投资者和金融机构产生. 巨大的影响. 已关闭. 整合. 有效地应对全球变化需要大量的资本投资和融资. 不确定性. 特定的投资和机动性的融资将依赖于政府政策. 影响力. 投资者和金融机构的决策对于社会应对气候变化有关. 键的影响. 影响 融合和应对 不确定性 影响力. 极端天气事件. 20世纪50年代到90. 年，由于洪水和旱灾.

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Search site. The Merit Economy of Buddhist Publishing in Republican China. Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The Merit Economy of Buddhist Publishing in Republican China. Venue:. Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity. Event date:. Monday, 29 April, 2024 - 14:00. Event organiser:. lecture given by Gregory Scott 史瑞戈, University of Manchester. Donations of materials, labour, and/or money in exchange for religious merit have been cornerstones of Buddhism in China since its arrival. In the Republican era (1912-1949), when thousands of Buddhist publications were circulating in China, donations for merit continued to help support the production of some Buddhist books, but many others were funded by fixed and circulating capital from for-profit commercial publishers or (mostly) not-for-profit Buddhist organisations. My presentation will examine evidence from Buddhist publications of the Republican era on how they made use of donations to help fund their work, how donors were recognised and recorded, and how the discourse surrounding merit transformed over this period. My hypothesis is that the longstanding core belief in the merit of publishing Buddhist books was augmented and enhanced by a number of new approaches, made