Ordering the Universe in Dramatic Fashion at an Ancient Khmer Temple
September 5, 2024
The Khmers knew how to start with a big bang. The temple on Phnom Krom was built by an early Khmer king, Yasovarman I or
Multicultural Blends in a Muslim Village in Yunnan
September 3, 2024
Yunnan’s Erhai Lake has been multicultural for centuries. It was the center of the fabled Nan Chao kingdom, which presided over much of northern
The Message Meets the Way; Islamic Art in China
September 1, 2024
Islam and China have created vastly underappreciated cultural fusions. Islam was introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty through ports of the southeastern coastal
Thailand’s Endless Varieties of Beauty; Chiang Saen’s Wat Pa Sak
August 29, 2024
The old town of Chiang Saen presides at a historic place on the Mekong–many ancestors of the Thai people crossed into this area when they migrated from
Graceful Geometry in Thai Art
August 27, 2024
People in Thailand created a different way of ordering the world than Egyptian temples and pyramids. Previous articles here explored some of the enchantments
Amun’s Temple at Karnak; Setting Standards for Magnificence in Ancient Egypt
August 21, 2024
A recent article here explored Hatshepsut’s temple in the Thebes area. But the grandest New Kingdom temple was Amun’s at Thebes, which modern Luxor surrounds.
From Information to Joy; Expanding Ideas of the Basis of Knowledge
August 15, 2024
Some technologists say that human cultures are increasingly being uploaded into the digital world, and they justify this claim by stating that the information in
Brahma and the Way; Indian Vastness Meets Chinese Harmony
August 11, 2024
Ancient Chinese thinkers developed ideas of a universe that’s holistic, highly resonant, politically centered, and within the human scale. Confucianism is an excellent example. But
The Vast Space-time Field in Indian Philosophies
August 8, 2024
Her cultural heritage gives her a huge space for dreaming. Satischandra Chatterjee and Dhirendramohan Datta, in An Introduction to Indian Philosophy, said that the sense