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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 13h

Aloha Wanderwell, the first woman to drive around the globe, stops at the Hyōgo Daibutsu in Kobe, Japan, in 1924. Her Ford 1918 Model T is parked in front of the statue. 🌏

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 1d

Similarly, the William Hurd book from 1790 (from where the original engraving was excised) notes that earlier Jesuits believed the Buddha was actually the apostle Saint Thomas who died in India.

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 2d

Mistaken for the Buddha? Illustrated European books from the 18th century mistakenly treated this image as the Buddha; it started as an image of a Sri Lankan king...

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 2d

Mistaken for the Buddha? Illustrated European books from the 18th century mistakenly treated this image as the Buddha; it started as an image of a Sri Lankan king...

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 2d

"The wound that Saketopoulou painfully probes is that while abuse and deprivation can generate individual afflictive 'translations,' the most challenging convulsive collective wound is that multigenerational structural translations are not 'in the past,' they are now."
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Risky play

The challenge “Interdependence” is often evoked as a Buddhist term, but it is also frequently misappropriated in terms of “relational realism” or interconnected webs of beings. Buddhist theories of in...

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James Bielo @secondhandsacred.bsky.social · 2d

What happens when you follow the traces and trails of a bible comic? Read the latest 'Collecting Religion' essay by Christina Pasqua and find out. It's a *really* good one!! collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/o...

Old Forgotten Children’s Books?

by Christina Pasqua Archival Collections When visiting the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University in spring 2025, I pulled an item from the collection called “The S…

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Afec @etudeschinoises.bsky.social · 4d

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon)

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :Laurent Chircop-Reyes (5 octobre 2025). Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS ...

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 7d

Replica of Vietnam's Tien Mu Temple pagoda for the 1906 Colonial Exposition in Marseille.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 7d

Socialist, theosophist + women's rights activist Annie Besant was born #onthisday 1847. Read @ResObscura on her book Thought-Forms (1901), an intriguing work grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras publicdomainreview.org/essay/v... #OTD

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10d

Born #onthisday in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes, author of one of the most illustrated books of all time, #DonQuixote. Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p... #otd

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 12d

Hoping to visit PEM in the fall this year. They likely have some of the earliest Buddhist statuary brought into the US.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13d

Original testimony of Abigail Williams from the Salem Witch Trials, 1692.

Now located in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

A fragment of parchment with testimony written on it in dark brown ink.

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 13d

#newpost! By guest contributor Andrew Chittick. A description of his latest project Maritime #Asia in the Third Century CE, using the #ESRI #StoryMap

#Maritimestudies #Vietnam #SoutheastAsia, #India, #MiddleEast #DHinpractice #DHtools

🔗 Link in bio

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 14d

Fritz Kapp, albumen photograph, w/ pencil on back "Lama priests by F. Kapp./ Lama Sherb, Gyatso (front middle)/ 239.” Sold at Sotheby's November 2021. Source photo for the postcard below.

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 16d

A good stereophotograph will have depth with at least two layers so a more pronounced stereoscopic effect will occur.

Kotte Temple, Sri Lanka, 1901.

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 16d

Felice Beato, "Bronze Statue of Jeso Sama-Hakoni Lake [sic]," albumen print, c. 1868 [modified 😎]

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 16d

Felice Beato, "Bronze Statue of Jeso Sama-Hakoni Lake [sic]," albumen print, c. 1868 [modified 😎]

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 16d

Happy first day of autumn!!! (In the northern hemisphere at least... and those west of UTC-02:00). ⁠

Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige.

More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 18d

“There’s a running joke on Chinese social media that Xi’an’s subway system has the worst feng shui—not because it’s cursed, but because the tracks have to twist and turn to avoid all the tombs buried beneath the city.”
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In Xi’an, You Can’t Build a Subway Without Digging Up a Dynasty

Infrastructure projects in Xi'an routinely unearth ancient tombs. Here, archaeology and urban growth go hand in hand.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 19d

"At a Funeral", one of the many enigmatic images to be found in Thought-Forms (1901), a work co-authored by the theosophist Annie Besant, who died #onthisday in 1933. More on these “synesthetic” abstractions in our essay by @ResObscura here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/v... #otd

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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 19d

During the height of chinoiserie, French artist Jean Barbault painted himself dressed as a "Chinese Ambassador" for the 1748 Roman Carnival Masquerade.

His remarkable hat was topped by a tiny sitting buddha, wearing the same hat.

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 19d

"Anyone who works in manuscript studies or philology knows that these are thoroughly digital disciplines. ... Accusations of technophobia ... would therefore be completely inappropriate. It is precisely our technical literacy ... that must make us critical."
@dehypotheses.bsky.social

Leaving Academia.edu: ‘AI’ and Information Loss

1. Yesterday I deleted my Academia.edu account. This has a direct impact on my work here. I would like to reflect on this in this post. But first things first: What happened? Already back in May, I no...

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 19d

@madpoli.bsky.social maps out essential DO posts for anyone working with #EastAsian sources 🔍 A handy resource guide covering everything from #OracleBone inscriptions to #mapping tools.

🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/19/a...

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Judith Weisenfeld @judithweisenfeld.com · 19d

I'm so excited about the work the Crossroads Project fellows have done and hope you will check out the new projects and teaching resource.

The Crossroads Project @xroadproj.bsky.social · 19d

New projects and a teaching resources added to the Crossroads Project's online gallery at SPIRIT HOUSE! Designed by @mpgphd.bsky.social, the site features 37 original projects exploring Black religious histories, communities and cultures. 1/2

Visit the site: www.crossroads-spirithouse.org

Black and white image of a river baptism with the words SPIRIT HOUSE: A Crossroads Project added.

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