Bulletin, Issues 55-57The Museum, 1983 - China |
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Hybrid Omens On the ceiling of Wu Liang's shrine a series of strange animals , plants , and objects can be seen depicted all in a row . Nowadays this section of the shrines has become much eroded , but some parts can be made out , and ...
Hybrid Omens On the ceiling of Wu Liang's shrine a series of strange animals , plants , and objects can be seen depicted all in a row . Nowadays this section of the shrines has become much eroded , but some parts can be made out , and ...
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... omens in Wu Liang's shrine are unlikely to have been perceived merely as “ lucky omens . " 26 ) Morality and Immortality If prodigies and omens were nothing more nor less than the voice of Heaven speaking on behalf of the literati ...
... omens in Wu Liang's shrine are unlikely to have been perceived merely as “ lucky omens . " 26 ) Morality and Immortality If prodigies and omens were nothing more nor less than the voice of Heaven speaking on behalf of the literati ...
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... omens we have been speaking of , as is made clear in the Bohu tong , a kind of catechism written in the first c . AD : The reason that lucky omens appear when general peace prevails in all under Heaven is , because the King is assisting ...
... omens we have been speaking of , as is made clear in the Bohu tong , a kind of catechism written in the first c . AD : The reason that lucky omens appear when general peace prevails in all under Heaven is , because the King is assisting ...
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animals antlers appear barrow beak-heads Bei Dao bird black-painted Bodhisattva body bronze Buddha Buddhist burial carved central century B.C. Ch'ien Liu Chavannes China Chinese Confucian crown cultural Dai Zhen dated decorative dragons Eastern Antiquities Emperor feline figure frontal Fu Xi fur-trimmings gold plaques griffon heads Hangchou headdress heavily stylized Hopei horse Hsiung-nu Hua-yen hybrid beast Ibid images imperial Inner Mongolia inscription Issyk Khitan Kuan-yin kurgan landscape Liao dynasty Liaoning literati Manchu Mongolia monk motif mountains mythic Neo-Confucian nomadic officials omens Pagoda Parinirvana pattern Pazaryk Photograph courtesy Plate poetry poets political portents predator Rect reign represented ribbons Round Ø Rudenko sculpture Scythian art Scytho-Siberian seal Sekino Shih Siberian Treasure silk Sitting lion soutache stone Sung symbolic Ta-t'ung Temple tiger Ting-hsien tomb tradition tree ts'ê Type Virginia Museum Wang Wu Shrines Wu Yüeh Wu-t'ai-shan Yin and Yang Zhu Xi