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The Chinese religious scene is nothing if not adaptable. This is nowhere truer than in the field of eschatology. As I have discussed at length previously,

We have discussed in detail how much of Buddhist eschatology in China was simply a gloss on indigenous themes and ideas. With all that being said,

By the time that Zhu Yuanzhang rode to the imperial throne on the back of Maitreyan prophecy in the fourteenth century, the Chinese apocalyptic narrative

It has often been noted that great ideas have the odd tendency of occurring independently to two separate individuals at exactly the same time. Charles

  Among Joachim of Fiore’s many remarkable ideas, his unique understanding of the Antichrist has, from his own times until now, never failed to

    Everything you believe about the world can be traced back to an apocalyptic prophet who lived in the twelfth century. Everything. I’m