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Yeke Caaji, the Mongol-Oyirod Great Code of 1640: Innovation in Eurasian State Formation

Mongolian. Historically it marked one of the last political strategies of two divisions of the Mongol Empire, established by Chinggis Khaan in 1206, to remain free of external political authority. The ... his dismissal of the Great Code as important in any meaningful way. One year later, in 2006, a group of papers in Imperial Statecraft explored political forms and governance techniques in Inner Asia

Yeke Caaji, the Mongol-Oyirod Great Code of 1640: Innovation in Eurasian State Formation

Mongolian. Historically it marked one of the last political strategies of two divisions of the Mongol Empire, established by Chinggis Khaan in 1206, to remain free of external political authority. The ... his dismissal of the Great Code as important in any meaningful way. One year later, in 2006, a group of papers in Imperial Statecraft explored political forms and governance techniques in Inner Asia

A Translation of the Nakulapitāsutta and its Commentaries

sophisticated system of cross-references wisely intertwined with a bulk of original elucidations.  This combination illustrates some prominent aspects of Pali Buddhist philosophy and provides a precious series of

Affliction without Affliction: A Translation of the Nakulapitāsutta and its Commentaries

sophisticated system of cross-references wisely intertwined with a bulk of original elucidations.  This combination illustrates some prominent aspects of Pali Buddhist philosophy and provides a precious series of

A Translation of the Nakulapitāsutta and its Commentaries

sophisticated system of cross-references wisely intertwined with a bulk of original elucidations.  This combination illustrates some prominent aspects of Pali Buddhist philosophy and provides a precious series of

Tarōbō by Rohan Koda: translated into English by Tsutomu Nagata

his generation, he did not study abroad or receive Westernized higher education. His works are based on East Asian aesthetics and Buddhist philosophy rather than the European literary trends that

Spatial Translations and Embodied Bilingualism: Defining the Migrant's Experience from an Architectural Perspective

the bilingual migrant leads to considerations about translatory motion not only of the body, but also of words. Using the contribution of Henri Poincare to the philosophy of geometry, we will see how ... subject is multidisciplinary and borrows from linguistics as well as phenomenology, philosophy, physiology and geometry. The relationship between architecture and language has been largely discussed under

Patricide or Mourning the Nation-State in Francis Leclerc’s Looking for Alexander

This article examines two closely connected dimensions of Francis Leclerc’s 2004 film, Looking for Alexander: a psychoanalytical dimension and a political one. Freud’s theories on the murder of the ... psychoanalytic reading of the issues at stake in Mémoires affectives, a reading that will subsequently lead me to unveil the film’s political subtext and demonstrate how the question of patricide and the mourning

‘Turning the Wheel of the Teaching’: A translation of Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita Canto 15 from a recently rediscovered Sanskrit manuscript

International Association of Buddhist Studies 35 ( 1-2 ): 171 - 224 . --- . 2013 . ' Aśvagṣahoand His Canonical Sources (III): The Night of Awakening (Buddhacarita 14.1-87)' . Journal of Indian Philosophy 41 ... Philosophy 41 : 167 - 94 . https://doi.org/DOI 10.1007/s10781-013-9178-3. --- . 2020 . ' Aśvagṣahoand His Canonical Sources: 4. On the Authority and the Authenticity of the Buddhist Scriptures'.ArcIhnaeologies

Projecting le Temps des Loisirs: Cycling and Working-Class Identity in French Cinema of the 1930s

competing ideologies that fractured France over the course of the 1930s. Locating the practice of cycling within its contemporary economic, political and sociological contexts, this analysis proposes that ... could believe in what Keith Reader dubs ‘the imaginary resolution of political contradictions’.4 However, with the benefit of hindsight, it is far too simple to criticise the Front populaire for failing

Translating Vaidya’s Harivaṃśa

”.’ Classical Philology 96.2, pp. 109–19. https://doi.org/10.1086/449533 ————. 2009. ‘Epic.’ In Richard Eldridge, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature. Oxford Handbooks Online. Nemec, John ... 1855 - 75 . Bonazzoli , Giorgio. 1985 . 'Considerations on a New Method of Critically Editing the Purāṇa-s . ' Purāṇa 27.2 , pp. 381 - 434 . Bowles , Adam. 2007 . Dharma, Disorder and the Political in

Linguistic Construction of Migrant Identity in U.S. Crime Reports

can have to immigration policies and public attitudes. In addition, the aim of the paper is to serve as a springboard for social and political change through consciousness-raising and the ability to ... to the negative representation of Latino migrants in everyday media discourse and the use of this issue by politicians to gain political support (and as a distraction from their own mistakes in

Two Pashto Short Stories by Abdul Wakil Sulamal Shinwari Translated by Noorullah Atal

political and literary essays, which have been published in various journals in and outside of Afghanistan. ... Parcham members, and members of the Afghan Millat.? Gulalay intervened: ?This has got nothing to do with people?s political affiliation. You can?t abandon your social life just for that.? The minister

Thieves in the Storehouse of Sarasvatī: Metaliterary Aspects of the Caurapañcāśikā

characterization of literature as an inalienable possession in the “storehouse of Sarasvatī in the heart,” which memory keeps safe from the dangers of political life to which it is constantly exposed. ... Poetics of Ambivalence: Imagining and Unimagining the Political in Bilha?a's Vikram??kadevacarita . ? Journal of Indian Philosophy 38 ( 5 ): 457 - 483 . doi: 10 .1007/s10781- 010-9100-1. B?hler , Georg (ed

Writing in the Language of Reality: Interwar Experiments in Language

, Chapter 5). Galison’s central thesis — that in the interwar period ‘the links between art and philosophy were real, not metaphorical, as artists and philosophers were bound by shared political, scientific ... will be discussed below); nevertheless, this paper follows Galison in attempting to locate commonalities in interwar philosophy and design. The commonality under discussion is the tendency to view

Queer, Gender and Crime Fiction in French Studies: a Hazardous Scientific Endeavour

Universit? Toulouse II ? Le Mirail, mainly takes place in philosophy, feminist theory, sociology, political sciences, and linguistics.35 Still, we must not forget that the Centre for Women?s and Gender ... of its political stance: engagement in the literary field runs parallel to engagement in politics.14 Writers of romans noirs have consciously opted for generic hybridity and they experiment with the

A Revolt of the Masses: Culture and Modernity in Early 20th Century Spain: From Bullfights to Football Games

historical period of this study covers a moment in history when “culture” was still on the threshold between philosophy and anthropology; therefore the term “culture” will be applied when referring to the ... was undergoing changes. The complicated process of restoration of the monarchy after the first republic in 1874 had left the country in an unstable political situation, which was made worse by the loss

The Construction of the Memory of Italy in Argentina Through a Choice of Translated Essays

head of Revista de Occidente in Madrid, he stressed the need to build a bridge between Spain and America and to promote the systematic translation of the major European literary and philosophy works ... of the recent past and the critique of aesthetic and political thought, as it is reflected in the themes and names of the Italian authors chosen to be disseminated through Sur. It is important to note

Paris Calling: Typical and Untypical Experiences of Latin American and African Diasporas

of young Africans grew considerably and this immediately affected the political self-confidence of the whole Negro-African civilisation.6 Just as large cities in the colonial world have always been ... subject. While Zoé Valdés’ residence in Paris is more motivated by political issues, Alain Mabanckou is part of a diaspora that goes back to the French empire and the social grievances caused in the post

An Appreciation of, and Tribute to, Will Johnson on the Occasion of his Retirement

publications include substantial contributions on aspects of Jain religion and philosophy, translations of several Sanskrit classics (with meditations on translation), and reference works (including reviews ... enumeration of the goals of life (dharma, kāma, artha and mokṣa) as well as the political treatises (nīti-śāstra) and the materials ancillary to the Vedas (vedāṅga)! 32 I have adjust the pronominal usage in