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The Devil's Handwriting
Germany’s overseas colonial empire was relatively short lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies: in Southwest Africa, German troops carried out a brutal slaughter of the Herero people; in Samoa, authorities pursued a paternalistic defense of native culture; in Qingdao, China, policy veered between harsh racism and cultural exchange. Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? In The Devil’s Handwriting, George Steinmetz tackles this question through a brilliant cross-cultural analysis of German colonialism, leading to a new conceptualization of the colonial state and postcolonial theory. Steinmet...
The Epitome
Containing a retrospective view of every discovery and practical improvement in the medical sciences, abstracted from the current medical journals of the United States and Canada.
Empire of Emptiness
Imperial Manchu support and patronage of Buddhism, particularly in Mongolia and Tibet, has often been dismissed as cynical political manipulation. Empire of Emptiness questions this generalization by taking a fresh look at the huge outpouring of Buddhist painting, sculpture, and decorative arts Qing court artists produced for distribution throughout the empire. It examines some of the Buddhist underpinnings of the Qing view of rulership and shows just how central images were in the carefully reasoned rhetoric the court directed toward its Buddhist allies in inner Asia. The multilingual, culturally fluid Qing emperors put an extraordinary range of visual styles into practice--Chinese, Tibetan, Nepalese, and even the European Baroque brought to the court by Jesuit artists. Their pictorial, sculptural, and architectural projects escape easy analysis and raise questions about the difference between verbal and pictorial description, the ways in which overt and covert meaning could be embedded in images through juxtaposition and collage, and the collection and criticism of paintings and calligraphy that were intended as supports for practice and not initially as works of art.
The Lamp for Integrating the Practices (Caryamelapakapradipa)
"The Lamp for Integrating the Practices (Caryåamelåapakapradåipa) is a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the most advanced yogas of the Esoteric Community Tantra (Guhyasamåaja-tantra) as espoused by the Nåagåarjuna Tradition, an influential school of interpretation within the Mahåayoga traditions of Indian Buddhist mysticism. Equal in authority to Nåagåarjuna's famous Five Stages (Paäncakrama), åAryadeva's work is perhaps the earliest prose example of the "stages of the mantra path" genre in Sanskrit. Its systematic path exerted immense influence on later Indian and Tibetan traditions, and it is widely cited by masters from all four major lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. Thi...
Ruthless Compassion
The historical development of Esoteric Buddhism in India is still known only in outline. A few verifiably early texts do give some insight into the origin of the ideas which would later develop and spread to East and Southeast Asia, and to Tibet. However, there is another kind of evidence which can be harnessed to the project of reconstructing the history of Esoteric Buddhist doctrines and practice. This evidence consists of art objects, mainly sculpture, which survive in significant numbers from the 6th to the 13th century.
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Das Reich der Mitte - in Mitte
Der Band enthalt acht Beitrage zur Kulturgeschichte Chinas in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, die auf Vortrage im Rahmen einer Ringvorlesung gleichen Themas an der Humboldt Universitat (2003/2004) zuruckgehen. Die Beitrage in diesem Buch zeigen wichtige Themenbereiche der textbasierten traditionellen Sinologie, deren hervorragende Relevanz fur die Kenntnis und Erforschung der Gegenwart deutlich wird. Hans Kuhner berichtet von den Anfangen des chinesischen Nationalismus. Lutz Bieg prasentiert den Schriftsteller Mo Yan (geb.1956) mit seinem Blick auf die "Grausame Heimat". Hartmut Walravens stellt Ferdinand Lessing (1882-1961) als Spezialist fur China, die Mongolei und den Lamaismus vor. Martina Siebert beleuchtet die chinesische imperiale Bibliographie mit ihrer Verarbeitung "neuer Themen" (pulu). Mathias Obert spricht uber Qi und die Theorie der Landschaftsmalerei in China. Erling v. Mende analysiert die sprachliche Vielfalt und ihre Entwicklung unter den Jin und Qing Dynastien. Florian C. Reiter bespricht theoretische Aspekte von Leben und Tod in den Religionen Taoismus und Buddhismus. Volker Olles analysiert abschliessend die heutige Realitat dieser Religionen in der VR China.
