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Journey to the West

Buddhist books arrived in China during the first century AD.  From these books, the Chinese learned of the Buddha and became familiar with the names of the sacred places he had consecrated by his presence.  Over time, new converts who desired to learn more of their religion risked the peril of travel to visit the…

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The Heavenly Steed

More than two millennia ago, the Han people knew of the Horse of Heaven from far to the west of China.  It came from Ta Yuan, ancient Ferghana, the Chinese equivalent for a local name for Greeks or Ionians, “Yavan”, which was described by Zhang Qian, China’s pioneer in Western Asia, as a land where…

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The Silk Road

It is said that almost five thousand years ago, while sitting in the shade of a mulberry tree in her garden, the Empress Hsi Ling-Shi found a fallen cocoon in her teacup.  The cocoon softened in the hot tea and unraveled into a long, lustrous thread, thus beginning the invention of the silk loom and…

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The Papaya

Among my favorite memories of the Big Island of Hawaii is late afternoon at the beach, of a baby girl being fed by her mother spoonfuls of papaya, its flesh glowing a deep orange as the sunset over the ocean’s horizon.  The mango may be the tourist’s beloved fruit, but the papaya is undoubtedly the…

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