The Luminous Way To The East

Author : Matteo Nicolini-Zani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197609643
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Luminous Way to the East written by Matteo Nicolini-Zani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Missionary Dynamism of the Church of the East It would be an attractive undertaking for the historian to be able to follow in the footsteps of those heralds of the Gospel, who went forth from Antioch with firmness and tenacity in those early days making their way to the East . . . building new centers of Christian irradiation, creating communities and spreading the doctrine of Jesus everywhere. The interest would certainly grow if we were familiar with the challenges faced by these first evangelizers on their way to the Far East. Gaining that knowledge, however, is no easy task. Christ's teaching had to cover immense distances on its road from Antioch towards the East. . . . The details of this diffusion, however, remain obscure. There are no Acts of the Apostles, no Letters of Saint Paul, no contemporary or near-contemporary documents that might tell us how and when Christianity from the region of the Euphrates and the Tigris crossed over the mountainous regions of the Orient, how through Media and Parthia it went south to Herat and Segestan, and how it penetrated eastward, crossing the Margiana (Merv), into the region of the Oxus and the Jaxartes, and finally how it entered today's Russian province of Semireč'e, then Turfan, and then further south into the heart of China"--

Author : John Lowry Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.UW/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infinity of the Starry Universe written by John Lowry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Kotyk
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004700838
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity written by Jeffrey Kotyk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam? This study offers an overview of the cultural, diplomatic, commercial, and religious relationships that flourished between Iran and China, building on the pioneering work of Berthold Laufer’s Sino-Iranica (1919) while utilizing a diverse array of Classical Chinese sources to tell the story of Sino-Iran in a fresh light to highlight the significance of transcultural networks across Asia in late antiquity.

Author : Francis V. Tiso
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583947965
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rainbow Body and Resurrection written by Francis V. Tiso and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading authority on the rainbow body traces its history in the encounter of religions in medieval Central Asia, exploring a previously unimagined connection between early Dzogchen and the resurrection of Jesus Francis V. Tiso, a noted authority on the rainbow body, explores this manifestation of spiritual realization in a wide-ranging and deeply informed study of the transformation of the material body into a body of light. Seeking evidence on the boundary between physical science and deep spirituality that might elucidate the resurrection of Jesus, he investigates the case of Khenpo A Chö, a Buddhist monk who died in eastern Tibet in 1999. Rainbow Body and Resurrection chronicles the dissolution of Khenpo's material body within a week of his death, including eye-witness interviews. Tiso describes the spiritual practices that give rise to the rainbow body and traces their history deep into the encounter of religions in medieval Central Asia. His erudite exploration of the Tibetan phenomenon raises the fascinating question of whether there is a connection between the rainbow body and the dying and rising of Jesus. Drawing on a wealth of recent research, Tiso expands his discussion to include the contemplative geography out of which Dzogchen arose some time in the eighth century along the great Silk Road across Central Asia. The result is an illuminating consideration of previously unimagined relationships between spiritual practices and beliefs in Central Asia.

Author : Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197675905
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against High-Caste Polygamy written by Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Against High-Caste Polygamy offers a complete, annotated translation of Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar's first book arguing against the practice of high-caste Kulin marriage in Bengal. The translation is based on the text of the first edition of Bahuvivaha rahita haoya uchita ki na etadvishayaka vichara, published from the Sanskrit Press in 1871 (Samvat 1928); henceforth simply Bahuvivaha. I have relied on the version of the text as found in the second volume of Gopal Haldar's Vidyasagar-rachanasamgraha, as well as on a digitized version of the 1871 first edition available online"--

Author : Bishop K. C. Pillai
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787202763
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Through an Eastern Window written by Bishop K. C. Pillai and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1963, this book by Bishop K. C. Pillai was written on the urging of many of his listeners to put his teachings into book form, “so that more Christians may be encouraged to trust in the Word of God, and believe more deeply through understanding.” He explains in his Introduction that he was unable to put all of his teachings into one book at this time due to time constraints, but with this volume intends to “touch upon some of the portions of the Bible which my listeners tell me have been the most interesting and inspiring.” A wonderful book for any reader who seeks to know and understand the Word of God...

Author : Mercer Mayer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534412409
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East of the Sun and West of the Moon written by Mercer Mayer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moon, Father Forest, Great Fish of the Sea, and North Wind help a maiden rescue her true love from a troll princess in a faraway kingdom.

Author : American Philosophical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge written by American Philosophical Society and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia Bourgeault
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561011932
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystical Hope written by Cynthia Bourgeault and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In five interwoven meditations, Mystical Hope shows how to recognize hope in our own lives, where it comes from, how to deepen it through prayer, and how to carry it into the world as a source of strength and renewal.

Author : R. Todd Godwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786733161
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persian Christians at the Chinese Court written by R. Todd Godwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. While scholars have so far considered the Stele exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical context, Todd Godwin here demonstrates that it can only be fully understood by reconstructing the complex connections that existed between the Church of the East, Sasanian aristocratic culture and the Tang Empire (617-907) between the fall of the Sasanian Persian Empire (225-651) and the birth of the Abbasid Caliphate (762-1258). Through close textual re-analysis of the Stele and by drawing on ancient sources in Syriac, Greek, Arabic and Chinese, Godwin demonstrates that Tang China (617-907) was a cosmopolitan milieu where multiple religious traditions, namely Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Christianity, formed zones of elite culture. Syriac Christianity in fact remained powerful in Persia throughout the period, and Christianity - not Zoroastrianism - was officially regarded by the Tang government as 'The Persian Religion'.Persian Christians at the Chinese Court uncovers the role played by Syriac Christianity in the economic and cultural integration of late Sasanian Iran and China, and is important reading for all scholars of the Church of the East, China and the Middle East in the medieval period.