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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (2): 203–220.
Published: 01 February 1976
... how such books shaped its outlook and its perceptions of change. Because Siam has been a predominantly Buddhist state, it might be advisable to begin with Buddhist materials—in particular, with Buddhist cosmography and the Siamese reassessment of it that has taken place since the encounter...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 419–445.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., and Uḍḍiyāna of the Land of Dakinis in the west. In the Potala and the Norbu Lingka, all but Uḍḍiyāna is depicted. This cosmography itself is developed from the classical Indian Buddhist world system most widely studied in Tibet through Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośabhāsyam , an extremely influential...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 141–170.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of cartography, but focuses on the interface between cartography and cosmography, which were, in turn, shaped by imperial power and geographical knowledge. This approach offers a high-altitude view of this Asian borderland as the imperial frontier of both the Mughals and the British, and the national fringe...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 349–350.
Published: 01 May 1988
... of correlative thinking and geometric cosmography. There is far more to say on these 350 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N STUDIES subjects than the author provides; his discussion of the various enumeration orders of the five phases is cursory, and his description of the "field-allocation" scheme of geometric...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 762–763.
Published: 01 August 1997
... observations of the shadow cast by a vertical pole gnomon. Analysis of the text shows that its author(s) was an adherent of the gai tian cosmography in which an umbrella-like heaven rotates about a vertical axis above an essentially flat earth. The text is unique, according to Cullen, in being "the only...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (2): 208–210.
Published: 01 February 1951
... in his scheme for the evangelization of the people through the lettered classes. For this he needed scientific men and books, above all, says Verhaeren, books on mathematics, astronomy, cosmography, and the natural sciences. And Europe responded generously. In my note of 1947 I mentioned the two editions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 760–762.
Published: 01 August 1997
...) and "cannot be understood as a single unified book" (p. 101). Most of the Zhou bi is taken up by calculations of the dimensions of the cosmos using observations of the shadow cast by a vertical pole gnomon. Analysis of the text shows that its author(s) was an adherent of the gai tian cosmography in which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 536–564.
Published: 01 August 1991
... in cosmography and ideas about siblingship. A second and related concern is to suggest if only speculatively how trade and labor exchanges during the precolonial and early colonial periods provided an important context for the headhunters' violent practices and thereby lent them shape, purpose...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 832–834.
Published: 01 August 2014
... the descriptive terminology and nomenclature used in colonial records against their vernacular meanings. She argues that monastic geographicity's imprint in cosmography and vernacular thought remained strong until the nineteenth century, after which it was forgotten due to the impact of colonial forms...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 562–563.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the descriptive terminology and nomenclature used in colonial records against their vernacular meanings. She argues that monastic geographicity's imprint in cosmography and vernacular thought remained strong until the nineteenth century, after which it was forgotten due to the impact of colonial forms...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 348–349.
Published: 01 May 1988
... with two chapters on early cosmology, setting out the main lines of correlative thinking and geometric cosmography. There is far more to say on these ...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (2): 210–211.
Published: 01 February 1951
... the remaining years of his life in close personal contact with the emperor and enjoyed free access to the court. Ricci introduced Western science into China. His Chinese writings1 covered such varied topics as apologetics, mathematics and astronomy, cosmography (esp. his famous world map), philosophy and morals...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 911–912.
Published: 01 August 2001
... discusses Jain rituals, festivals and pilgrimage. The remaining four essays are of a more specifically art historical nature. Jan Van Alphen in two chapters briefly discusses the iconography of the Tirthankara image and Jain cosmography. The most extensive and ambitious essay is that of Lalit Kumar, whose...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 February 1985
... lightness of touch, the .text is now supported, where appropriate, by citations of sources, so conspicuously lacking in Early Maps of India. A notable addition to the previous coverage is a brief opening chapter on indigenous maps. Until recently, such maps, not counting cosmographies, were thought scarcely...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 424–425.
Published: 01 February 1985
..., where appropriate, by citations of sources, so conspicuously lacking in Early Maps of India. A notable addition to the previous coverage is a brief opening chapter on indigenous maps. Until recently, such maps, not counting cosmographies, were thought scarcely to have existed; however, many, in a wide...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 590–591.
Published: 01 August 1988
... on Topography" in the Huai-nan-tzu) by the figure of the grid, that is, by a schematic cosmography, manifest (evidently or arguably) in a whole array of symbols such as urban design, magic squares, ming-t'ang, TLV mirrors, and various versions of the "nine chou." Anyone interested in the development...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Universe: Pilgrimage and Cosmography in the Court of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama (1876–1933).” Both offer sophisticated and detailed analyses of difficult-to-parse documents laden with significant inscriptions in the one case, paintings in the other. The next two articles, by historians K athryn J ean...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 229–230.
Published: 01 November 1970
... BOOK REVIEWS 229 Of special interest is Sangermano's treatment of "Burmese Cosmography," "Religion of the Burmese," and his lengthy translation of portions of the "Burmese Code," all of which are handled primarily in terms of written texts. This wealth of information, because it is so clearly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 228–229.
Published: 01 November 1970
... written ma- tus M. Kelley, (1833) 1969. xxxix, 308 pp. terials, much of which no others have used. BOOK REVIEWS 229 Of special interest is Sangermano's treatment of "Burmese Cosmography," "Religion of the Burmese," and his lengthy translation of portions of the "Burmese Code," all of which are handled...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 463–465.
Published: 01 May 1997
... attempts to construct "a comparative poetics of cosmography" describing the underlying structure of anomaly accounts (chapter 5). Chapter 6, on the modes of anomaly, however, resembles the typological approach he criticizes. Campany parts from early scholarship most dramatically when he firmly rejects...