Yijing
YIJING (635–713), Chinese Buddhist translator and traveler to India. Born Zhang Wenming, a native of Qizhou (modern Shandong province), Yijing left his family at the age of seven and liv...
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I-Ching
634-712
Chinese Pilgrim
As a Buddhist monk who traveled to India from China, I-ching followed in the footsteps of earlier pilgrims Fa-hsien (c. 334-c. 422) and Hsüan-tsang (602-664). He d...
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I-Ching
Born 634 Died c. 712
I-Ching was one of a large number of Chinese Buddhist monks who traveled to India—the birthplace of Buddhism— to visit holy sites and study original religious...
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Beijing (dpa) - If there were fewer young couples on China's
streets in late October and early November, perhaps it was because
some of them were indoors, laying back and th...
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We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks—we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. We know that the dance is a thing apart from the music; that elements of the d...
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We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks—we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. We know that the dance is a thing apart from the music; that elements of the d...
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At the Angelika, we shifted uneasily in our seats as the subways roared back and forth beneath us; up there on a screen slightly larger than your average television set, a man and a woman were actu...
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