Sublime

The wooden bucket was decorated with designs in white paste showing pines, bamboos, cranes, and tortoises but not plum blossoms (usually associated with pines and bamboos in artistic compositions) because plum blossoms fall, an inauspicious association.

In the days of Kings Æthelfrith, Edwin and Oswald the greatest architectural feats since the end of the Roman Empire stood here as symbols of royal power: a palace complex, noble halls of great technical complexity and grandeur and, wonder of wonders, a grandstand unique in its period. In a pagan temple offerings were made to the gods and tribal to

According to the Mughal historian Khair ud-Din Illahabadi, ‘The Emperor spent years – and fortunes – attempting to destroy the foundations of Maratha power, but this accursed tree could not be pulled up by the roots.’ From Babur to Aurangzeb, the Mughal monarchy of Hindustan had grown ever more powerful, but now there was war among his descendants

Bodhiruchi,

The earliest cremation urns seen in eastern Britain have long been recognized as having direct Continental counterparts in the lands of north Germany and southern Scandinavia, rather neatly tying the fifth-century inhabitants of eastern England to the poetry of Beowulf and to Gildas’s apocalyptic history. On the face of it, the Early ‘Anglo-Saxon’

But what was built by the tact and conciliation of the first five of the Great Mughals was destroyed by the harsh and repressive rule of the sixth.

More than ritual, the individual had to turn within to cultivate his own virtue or the de that was received from the Dao – the Dao of which we…

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