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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀

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無子養貓居士; Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, Deputy Head of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester; Building the Buddhist Revival (OUP 2020) https://academic.oup.com/book/33577; https://crta.info

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · Oct 31

The Manchester China Institute put together an outstanding recording of my public talk from 15th October, now on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2CO...

Gregory Scott on Buddhist Mass Media in Modern China [MCI Talk]

YouTube video by Manchester China Institute

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 2h

Worship at an ancestral tomb, near Weihai, Shandong province, photograph by Ah Fong of Weihai, c.1910

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · 2h

In 1722 黃叔璥 Huang Shujing, a Mandarin-speaking Qing official, arrived Taiwan where he spent 2 years. He recorded in 臺海使槎錄 “Records from the mission to Taiwan and its Strait” (1736) how the language spoken by Taiwanese was totally unintelligible—like barbarian gibberish and birds talking (鴃舌鳥語，全不可曉)

臺海使槎錄·卷一~卷二
by （清）黃叔璥
https://archive.org/details/06044602.cn/page/n127/mode/1up

Taiwanese Hokkien
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Hokkien
臺灣話
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E8%A9%B1

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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 5h

#OTD 1 yr ago: Alice Casalini @UChicago introduces DIGA, the created with the intention of digitizing artifacts from Gandhāra scattered all around the world.

Check it out 👇
#streamline #workflow #digitaltools #DHinpractice #DHresources

digitalorientalist.com/2024/10/08/t...

The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)

In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art and archaeology of Gandhāra.1 Produced between the 1st c. BCE and the 5th c. CE, …

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 11h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 1d

A memorial tablet to the Emperor Yongle (reigned 1402-1424) "who moved the urns of empire", photographed c.1923 by "Adam Warwick", the male pseudonym the Peking photographer Juliet Bredon used to get work in America....

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4d

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE MOON?
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a thread, because everyone is confused about Mid-Autumn Festival...

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 1d

中秋節快樂！

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 2d

Ah - 'peeks' of course! Although seeing the moon would be the peak to my week :D

Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 2d

Going to be cloudy all day here, hope that the moon peaks out tonight #中秋節

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 2d

The following universities are delaying implementing a pay rise:

Dundee
Kent
Brunel
Coventry
Swansea

The following have yet to make a decision on the matter:

Aberdeen
Bangor
Bournemouth
Bradford
Buckingham
Cumbria
Lincoln
Plymouth Marjon

#UKHE

ednews.bsky.social @ednews.bsky.social · 2d

Five UK universities tell staff they can't afford pay rises | THE

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · 2d

Here's a little avant-garde manga from 1891.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday

Three images, a fox, a bird and a T-Rex all created with itens of clothes on a clothesline

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Paul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social · 5d

Devon Fitzgerald @devinfitz.bsky.social with the first talk at the Forms & Function symposium, talking about the Xi’an Nestorian Stele!

Devon discussing the Xi’an stele in front of a picture of the stele

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Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social · 5d

Located in the mountains of Yunnan, China, the Qiongzhu Temple houses a collection of fantastic Buddhist statues.

This Thousand-Armed Guanyin icon is surrounded by over 200 arhat disciples, comprising part of a Five Hundred Arhat image collection over a century old. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Sinology #筇竹寺

The image shows a black and white photograph of a Guanyin statue with multiple arms, centrally placed within a room. The statue is elaborate, with several radiating arms each holding different objects. It stands on a pedestal in front of an intricate backdrop that appears to include swirling cloud-like patterns. Surrounding the central figure are smaller statues or carvings located on two tiers of platforms resembling a theater or gallery setting. The upper tier seems to contain seated figures in rows, while the lower level hosts standing figures clothed in traditional attire. The room appears to be part of a temple or monastery, characterized by wood and stone structures.

Sort available posts on Bluesky using #Buddhasinthewest | All posts archived here: tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87 🔍 🗃️ 📜

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine the Last Supper reimagined in a Ming Dynasty courtyard: Christ at the center, not in Jerusalem, but beneath carved wooden beams and fluttering lucky clouds.
In this early 20th-century painting, Peter wears a flowing blue hanfu, seated on a three-legged stool beside lotus blooms rising 1/2

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 5d

Would be great for a tabletop version of Fights in Tight Spaces

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Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social · 5d

Soviet winter camouflage trials ended #OTD in 1941. The result was the famous "tire track" camo that blended together at long range, creating gray tones that blurred the tank's outline even when only white paint was available. #tanks #History #WW2 #WWII

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent (but depressing) analysis by @gsoh31.bsky.social on the fragile state of higher education in the UK. This passage particularly struck me. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

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Yuzhou @baiy.bsky.social · 6d

A little treat to myself for my 35th birthday. An illustrated 1920 pamplet on 'Bopomofo,' the Chinese transliteration system instituted by RoC and still in use in Taiwan. search.worldcat.org/title/26031012

Front cover of the pamphlet, with Chinese and English titles (Phonetic picture dictionary = 看圖識字) and related information, "The National phonetic symbols and word-forms interpreted by mimetic and illustrative cuts arranged according to rhyme endings," "Phonetic Committee Number 22."

Page 1 of the pamphlet. Includes various words with "p" sound and illustrations.

Preface to the text, in Chinese and English.

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K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social · 6d

This #WoodblockWednesday, musing over the creativity of this Guangzhou publisher's branding on nearly every page of its printed lists of successful provincial exam candidates. Making a dry subject just a little cute, page by page.

All from fasc reprint 清歷科廣東鄉試錄 search.worldcat.org/title/34561437

Nine little line drawings of flowers, vases, and other objects with the publisher's name, 錦書堂, incorporated into the design.

Slightly more elaborate ad design, as if written on a curling scroll of paper, reads: 貴客光顧請認省城學院前錦書堂為記.

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 7d

Call for applications: Tangut Winter School 2026 at the Elling Eide Center, January 5-9, 2026. Apply by November 1 for this 5-day (funded!) immersion in Buddhist texts, history, law codes, and more.

Tangut Winter School 2026 | Elling Eide Center

Tangut Winter School 2026 Join the Tangut Winter School 2026 for five days of lectures and guided readings on Buddhist texts, history, law codes, and more.T ...

buff.ly

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 7d

We had just to move our brains into our chests where they belong

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 7d

JOB> University of Toronto - Religions of Transnational East Asia networks.h-net.org/jobs/69189/u...

University of Toronto - Religions of Transnational East Asia | H-Net

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 7d

October coming in like