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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

This post was originally published as part of the Thucydides Roundtable project over at Zenpundit. I encourage you to read all of the posts in the roundtable.Meet Sima Qian. I hold him in high regard. You could say that this was a historian with balls. Sima Qian is sometimes called the “Herodotus of the East.”…

Where to start when navigating the diffuse and complex tradition of thought and religious practice dating back to the very beginnings of Chinese civil...

Ink and Imagination: Unleash Both in the Best Chinese Books, a Collection That Spans Genres and Eras, Crafting a Tapestry Where Each Thread Tells a Unique Tale.