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16 May 2024: The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography. Wednesday 22 May 2024, 2pm-4pm. Michael Nylan. Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Documents [Shū] (ca. 221 BC) by Fu Sheng. Two chapters (ch. 1, pp. 1-3; ch. 14, pp. 1-4) from the text in English follow. (out of a total of 30 that were in circulation in the Han). Ch. 1 is also in Chinese to see how much emendation Professor Nylan brings to the text, based on the extant sources. 1. Canon of Yao <a>1A.1 encomium in verse<a> Yao, Examiner of Old Heroes, named "Propagator of Merit," was impressive and clear-sighted. He knew how to put all things in order and at ease. Truly attentive to his duties, he was capable of relinquishing his powers and privileges to worthy men. His bright influence shone wide to earth's four corners, reaching above and below. He was able to make his instructive example shine forth, to draw the Nine Clans close to him. Once the Nine Clans were settled, then Yao distinguished by insignia the Hundred Families. And once the Hundred Families themselves became shining examples, that induced harmony in the myriad polities, at which point the masses flourished, and the era came to be at peace. <a>1A.2 account of Xi and He and

28 May 2024: A BUDDHA LAND IN THIS WORLD. Before you start to read this book, take this moment to think about making a donation to punctum books, an independent non-profit. press,. @ https://punctumbooks.com/support/. If you’re reading the e-book, you can click on the image below to go directly to our donations site. Any amount, no matter the size, is appreci-ated and will help us to keep our ship of fools afloat. Contributions from dedicated readers will also help us to keep our commons open and to cultivate new work that can’t find a welcom-ing port elsewhere. Our adventure is not pos-. sible without your support. Vive la Open Access. Fig. 1. Detail from Hieronymus Bosch, Ship of Fools (1490–1500). A BUDDHA LAND IN THIS WORLD: PHILOSOPHY, UTOPIA, AND RADICAL BUDDHISM. Copyright 2022 by Lajos Brons. This work carries a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, which means that you are free to copy and redistribute the mate-rial in any medium or format, and you may also remix, transform and build upon the material, as long as you clearly attribute the work to the authors (but not in a way that suggests the authors or punctum books endorses you and your work), you do not use this work for commercial gain in any form whatsoever,