Through a diachronic and comparative approach this book offers a comprehensive study of Zen Buddhist linguistic and rhetoric devices in China, Korea, and Japan. It draws a vivid picture of the ...complexity of Zen Buddhist literary production in interaction with doctrinal and ritual issues, as well as in response to the sociopolitical contexts.
The Middle Kingdom and the Dharma Wheel comprises seven articles relating to saṃgha-state relations in Chinese history from the early Tang to the Qing dynasty.
Introduction to the JGB Special Focus section, "Flows and Counterflows of Buddhism 'South of the West': Australia, New Zealand, and Hawai'i." In this special issue, we endeavour to explore horizontal ...flows and counter flows of Buddhism on 'paths less travelled' across the Pacific sea of islands, and 'South of the West' (Gibson 1992) rather than the usual 'from Asia to Europe and the Americas' story. As such, this special issue fits within the more recent scholarship on the globalisation of Buddhism that seeks to point to a more complex picture of historical and contemporary flows of Buddhist ideas, practices, objects and peoples across the globe.
The results showed that Shaolin Kungfu refers to the long-standing traditional cultural system that formed in the specific Buddhist cultural environment of the Shaolin Temple in Songshan Mountain. It ...is based on belief in the divine power of Buddhism. Fully embodying the wisdom of Zen Buddhism and takes the martial arts practiced by the monks of the Shaolin Temple as the main form of expression. Later, the traditional Chinese martial culture at Shaolin Temple was associated with a state of war between China and foreign invaders. The Chinese at that stage resurrected their martial arts to defend themselves and fight against invaders. Therefore, a group was formed to practice fighting in the temple. especially the Shaolin Temple. In addition, to promote correct training Therefore, the murals documented the various poses and methods of fighting. Thus, the Kung Fu murals at Shaolin Temple were like a martial textbook that kung fu fighters practiced. and became an important role in this period of martial culture.
This article traces a widespread misunderstanding in Western Tibetological literature that mdos are synonymous with ‘thread-crosses’ (nam mkha’) used in various rituals. In fact, the term mdos has a ...much broader implication. The article explores the nature, function and origin of the mdos to show that mdos rituals have in general the function of removing spiritual and material obstacles
A molecular endless (7 4 ) knot Leigh, David A; Danon, Jonathan J; Fielden, Stephen D P ...
Nature chemistry,
02/2021, Volume:
13, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Current strategies for the synthesis of molecular knots focus on twisting, folding and/or threading molecular building blocks. Here we report that Zn(II) or Fe(II) ions can be used to weave ligand ...strands to form a woven 3 × 3 molecular grid. We found that the process requires tetrafluoroborate anions to template the assembly of the interwoven grid by binding within the square cavities formed between the metal-coordinated criss-crossed ligands. The strand ends of the grid can subsequently be joined through within-grid alkene metathesis reactions to form a topologically trivial macrocycle (unknot), a doubly interlocked 2catenane (Solomon link) and a knot with seven crossings in a 258-atom-long closed loop. This 7
knot topology corresponds to that of an endless knot, which is a basic motif of Celtic interlace, the smallest Chinese knot and one of the eight auspicious symbols of Buddhism and Hinduism. The weaving of molecular strands within a discrete layer by anion-template metal-ion coordination opens the way for the synthesis of other molecular knot topologies and to woven polymer materials.
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