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head of a lion
Believers traveled to Mount Wutai in Shanxi Province, stopping at temples where such a sculpture was enshrined. With its piercing eyes, flaring nostrils, curling lips, fiercely ...
http://www.dia.org/education/tao/resource_art/pdf/china_lion.pdf
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Martial Arts Myths of Shaolin Monastery
Elsewhere, however, history records the heroic sacrifice of the monk, Zhen Bao, when he tried to defend Mount Wutai in Shanxi against a Jin force (c. 1126), and quotes another monk ...
http://seinenkai.com/articles/henning/mythsofshaolin.pdf
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Nominations to the World Heritage List
... ASIA-PACIFIC (Total submitted: 16 of which 4 are INCOMPLETE) China Fujian Tulou 1113 11/01/2007 11/01/2007 COMPLETE China Mount Wutai 1279 19/01/2007 INCOMPLETE China Mount Sanqingshan ...
http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2007/whc07-31com-inf8b3e.pdf
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Cambridge University Press
See also Meili Snow Mountain Mount Tai, 87 Mount Wutai, 36 mountaineering, 130-1 Muir, John, 4,54,55,61,127 multinational corporations, 13 municipal government, 140,148 Nanjing, 19,60 ...
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/39594/index/9780521839594_index.pdf
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SYLLABUS, HISTORY 391, TRAVEL STUDIES SEMINAR, JAMES MADISON ...
... Yungang Grottoes Shaoling Temple Confucius Temple Genghis Khan Mausoleum Mount Tai Mount Wutai ...
http://cob2.jmu.edu/China/cn/doc/Course/HIST391Syl.pdf
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Museum of Art Bulletin Fall Metropolitan
... beneath the lion's feet and the two smaller attendants at the upper right and left suggest that the sculpture depicts Manjushri's descent from his abode on Mount Wutai in Shanxi Province to ...
http://www.metmuseum.org/publications/bulletins/1/pdf/3269120.pdf.bannered.pdf
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CONFERENCE FINAL REPORT
— Natasha Heller (East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, Harvard University) investigated the mural paintings of the Buddhist temples located on Mount Wutai in her ...
http://www.cogitofoundation.ch/pdf/Maps_report.pdf
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Nominations to the World Heritage List
... Total submitted: 11 of which 3 are INCOMPLETE) Australia Australian Convict Sites 1306 25/01/2008 INCOMPLETE China Mount Wutai 1279 17/01/2008 COMPLETE China Historic monuments of Mount ...
http://whc.unesco.org/document/100762
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INTRODUCTION
Believers traveled to Mount Wutai in Shanxi Province, stopping at temples where such a sculpture was enshrined. With its piercing eyes, flaring nostrils, curling lips, fiercely ...
http://edu.dia.org/tao/resource_guide/pdf/resource_guide.pdf
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Nordic World Heritage Foundation Newsletter July 2009
• Mount Wutai (China) • Shushtar, Historical Hydraulic System (Iran) • Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain (Kyrgyzstan) • The Sacred City of Caral-Supe (Peru) • The Royal Tombs of the ...
http://www.nwhf.no/files/File/Newsletter_July_-_August_2009.pdf
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