City of Lingering Splendor

2001-05-01 History

Author : John Blofeld
Release : 2001-05-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 375/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book City of Lingering Splendor written by John Blofeld. This book was released on 2001-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail and dialogue, Blofeld vividly re-creates the magic of these years and conveys to the reader his appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished.

City of Lingering Splendour

1961 Beijing (China)

Author : John Blofeld
Release : 1961
Genre : Beijing (China)
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Download or read book City of Lingering Splendour written by John Blofeld. This book was released on 1961. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author spent many years in China, particularly Peking, where he came to know the language and people well. He became intimate with all sorts of colourful people - silk-clad scholars, Buddhist monks, Taoist sages, actors, countless other strange and delectable dishes.

Bodhisattva of Compassion

2009-10-13 Religion

Author : John Blofeld
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 356/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Bodhisattva of Compassion written by John Blofeld. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is the embodiment of selfless love, the supreme symbol of radical compassion, and, for more than a millennium throughout Asia, she has been revered as “The One Who Hearkens to the Cries of the World.” Kuan Yin is both a Buddhist symbol and a beloved deity of Chinese folk religion. John Blofeld’s classic study traces the history of this most famous of all the bodhisattvas from her origins in India (as the male figure Avalokiteshvara) to Tibet, China, and beyond, along the way highlighting her close connection to other figures such as Tara and Amitabha. The account is full of charming stories of Blofeld’s encounters with Kuan Yin’s devotees during his journeys in China. The book also contains meditation and visualization techniques associated with the Bodhisattva of Compassion, and translations of poems and yogic texts devoted to her.

My Journey in Mystic China

2008-03-18 Biography & Autobiography

Author : John Blofeld
Release : 2008-03-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 576/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book My Journey in Mystic China written by John Blofeld. This book was released on 2008-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only English translation of John Blofeld’s memoirs as a Westerner living in China prior to the Communist Revolution • Paints an intimate portrait of the grace and refinement of ancient Chinese civilization • Originally written in Chinese for Chinese readers, revealing a rare glimpse of Blofeld’s private Chinese side and uncensored views • The last book by the great English sinologist, translator of the I Ching and author of Taoist Mystery and Magic The reveries and remembrances contained in the travel diaries of John Blofeld cover every aspect of his life in China--from visits to opium dens and sing-song houses to sojourns in the Buddhist monasteries and Taoist hermitages of China’s sacred mountains. Here is a vivid glimpse of “old” China as it existed in elegance and grace for three thousand years before China’s Communist Revolution. Originally written in Chinese for a Chinese audience, Blofeld’s travel diary reveals a rare, uncensored view of pre-communist China to which few westerners have been exposed.

Utopia

2019-04-08 Political Science

Author : Thomas More
Release : 2019-04-08
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 583/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More. This book was released on 2019-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

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