Life and curiosity

  2022 Reading List Bresnan, Patrick S. Awakening: An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought . Routledge 6 th ed., 2018. This book engages readers with lively anecdotes, essential primary and secondary sources, an accessible writing style, and a clear historical approach. The text focuses primarily on India, China, and Japan, while showing the relationships that exist between Eastern and Western traditions. Author consistently links the past to the present, so readers may see those Eastern traditions, however ancient their origins, are living traditions and relevant to modern times.   Ferrell, O.C., et al.   Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases . Cengage 12 th  ed., 2019. The purpose of this book is to help students improve their ability to make ethical decisions in business by providing them with a framework that they can use to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues in business decision making. By studying business ethics, s...

  OMuRAA Museums Visit!  Online Museum Resources on Asian Art Champleve’ Incense Burner with Lotus Motifs in Serindian Style Champleve’ enamel Qing dynasty (1644-1911) Hello and welcome to my blog! I am your host, CT, and we will be going on an adventure to visit Online Museum Resources on Asian Art, The Palace Museum! Let’s get to it! When I opened and saw some of the many virtual museums, I decided to visit virtually The Palace Museum which is located in the heart of Beijing. On The Palace Museum website, in the "VISIT" section, stated that the museum is temporarily closed. But here it has also another information about the museum operation hours, how to buy tickets, the location of the museum, facilities that can be found while in the museum such as places to eat and drink, shops, audio guides, information points, ATMs, lavatories, luggage, accessibility, loan of equipment, first aid, paging service - lost and found, and tickets. Information about regulations and sugge...

  Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen A Zen monk of the Soto School prays in front of an altar at the Seiryu ji Temple in Hikone City Japan https://h7.alamy.com/comp/3/11bf3598531f4178a9f84e7834e4e576/a9j5jr.jpg “Buddhism has been practiced in Japan since about the 6th century CE. Japanese Buddhism (Nihon Bukkyō) created many new Buddhist schools, and some schools are original to Japan, and some are derived from Chinese Buddhist schools. Japanese Buddhism has had a major influence on Japanese society and culture and remains an influential aspect to this day”. (Wikipedia, Buddhism in Japan). “During the thirteenth century, three new schools of Buddhism would become firmly established in Japan: Nichiren Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism”. “The seeds of Zen would fall on especially fertile ground in Japan and would reproduce the two great schools already existing in China; Caodao, which would be pronounced “Soto” in Japanese, and Linji, which would be pronounced “Rinzai”. (Bresnan ...