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Visited Shuang Lin Monastry in Singapore on Vesak day, lot's of devotees at the 城隍庙 'City God' Temple section, associated with folk beliefs.

#urbanphotography #streetphotography #VesakDay #ChineseReligion #temple

🗣️ Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma (A free, 42-minute podcast from 2018)

Tags: #ChineseReligion #Buddhism #Thirdeye #SeaMahayana #Pureland #Religion #BurmeseBuddhism
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/immortals_keeler

📰 Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism (A free, 36-page article from 2010)

Tags: #ChineseReligion #BurmeseBuddhism #Buddhism
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/on-saints-and-wizards-ideals-of-human_pranke-patrick

#DOTD: Liang Shuming 梁漱溟 (1893–1988), modern #Confucian philosopher who was strongly influenced by #Indian #Buddhist #philosophy. #ModernChina #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseReligion

#BOTD: Xu Dishan 許地山 (1893-1941), #Taiwanese scholar and folklorist of Indian and #ChineseReligion, #literature, and #Sanskrit, and alumnus of @UniofOxford. #ModernChina #ChineseReligion #SinoIndianRelations

The only link I could think of, regarding Passover and Qingming crossover that’s happening today is ancient graves of ancient Egyptian royalty.
(By the way, The Pyramids were not built by slaves!)

#religion
#happypassover
#qingming
#Passover
#judaism
#egypt
#pyramids
#religiodon
#Religiodons
#chinesereligion
@religion

#BOTD: Xu Dishan 許地山 (1893-1941), #Taiwanese scholar and folklorist of Indian and #ChineseReligion, #literature, and #Sanskrit, and alumnus of @UniofOxford. #ModernChina #ChineseReligion #SinoIndianRelations

... Just as the number 4 is avoided like the plague because the word for death has the same sound as the number 4 with just a different tone,
Chinese people absolutely love the number 8 because it is considered very lucky because the word for it rhymes with something related to wealth or fortune. #religion #China #ChineseReligion #MainlandChina #religions