deities

This thesis spotlights one of Yunnan’s most important Buddhist deities – Acuoye Guanyin. This bodhisattva, also known as the Luck of Yunnan, is unique to the Yunnan region. Acuoye Guanyin played a pivotal role in the political rise of the Nanzhao Kingdom and continued to serve a…

David Hume discusses the notion of liberty and necessity in both his Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) and his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748). While scholars generally agree that Hume’s treatment of this subject has amounted to an important contribution to compat…

The fifth pharaoh of the Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty (Middle Kingdom), Khakaure Senwosret III (reigned ca. 1878-40 B.C.E.) constructed his pyramid complex at Dahshur, a site at the southern end of the Memphite necropolis, a traditional burial place for Egyptian monarchs. At the cen…

In 1992, a deposit of broken marble statues was discovered during the excavations of the Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi (modern Banias) in northern Israel. From the 245 fragments recovered, twenty-eight statues carved in the Graeco-Roman tradition and representing mainstr…

The nature of royal inscriptions is such that it can be extremely difficult to judge the sincerity behind the rhetoric. These texts are replete with statements of self aggrandizement, hyperbole, and exaggeration. Among the many claims within the inscriptions is that the kings we…