Mourning texts (āi jìwén 哀祭文) are an important genre of Dūnhuáng 敦煌 literature and are usually regarded as a subgenre of Dūnhuáng "prayer texts” (yuànwén 願文). More than 230 mourning texts are ...read more
Olfactory aesthetic experience plays a significant role in classical Chinese culture and is a vital component of traditional Chinese aesthetic experience. Due to historical reasons in modern China, olfactory aesthetic ...read more
OTTOWAQF will examine how religious foundations shaped state building in the Ottoman Empire during a crucial period between 1450 and 1650. Religious foundations controlled vast swaths of land and property ...read more
This project investigates the formation of Chinese Chan/Zen 禪 Buddhist historiography during the Tang-Song transition (ca. 750–1000). It focuses on how Chan historians shaped and refined hagiographies for the Chan ...read more
This project aims to offer a comprehensive overview of structured depositions in settlement contexts during the Iron Age in Northwestern Europe. It seeks to deepen our understanding of the cosmology ...read more
This research project strives to fill the research gaps concerning three bodily-related controversies (baring the right shoulder, sitting in a leisurely position while eating, and shaving the hair) discussed inside Buddhist ...read more
The Datong Thought derived from the Book of Rites, which refers to the Datong ideal of the world as one community, the Xiaokang ideal of a prosperous society, and the Dashun ideal of seeking common ground while reserving ...read more
The main objective of this research are the flying apsaras in the grottoes of the Northern Wei Dynasty, focusing on the three main royal grottoes, Yungang Grottoes, Longmen Grottoes and Gongyi ...read more
The thesis takes the Pre-Qin eclectics as research object. Although scholars of eclecticism did generally not form their own schools, their academic thoughts and monographs were an important part of ...read more