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Artizam smrti kroz simbiozu estetike i svetosti u Kamenom spavaču Maka Dizdara

Author(s): Rašid Durić / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

In dieser Studie interpretiere ich der heilige Kraft und ästhetisch sprachkünstlerischen Wirkungen des poetischen Lietmotivs des Todes auf dem Basis der metaphysischer Transformation des biotisch-materialistischen Lebens in seine kosmische und geistliche Ewigkeit. Es handelt sich dabie um eine Metamorphose des Materiellen durch ihre ständige Transmutation in einer ewigen Bestehens des mikro-makrokosmischen Daseins. Damit wird sich Der steinerne Schläfer als transcendentale Psychoterapie erweist in deren sich das poetische Wort in die heilige Kraft umwandelt. Solche Umwandlung wird in der Erforschung der mittelalterlicher Epigraphic der bosnisch-humischer Heretiker als sgn. “bosnische Schule des Todes” genannt. In meiner Studie ist solche Todeskunstschule anhand der Interpretation von (un)trenbaren Symbiose zwischen des Heiligtums (und der heiligen Wirkung) und des Ästhetischen bewiesen worden. Mit dem Hauptthese, dass das biologische Tod in Dizdar Poesie eine Umwandlung in andere Art des Daseins bedeutet. Unten den Verwendung der Philosophie perennis kann man Des steinerne Schläfers als eine Art der künstlerischer Psychoterepheutik sehr ernst annehmen, um durch deren Anwendung eine gewisse Todesüberwindung zu erlangen.

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Японците

Author(s): Bratislav Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian

Bratislav Ivanov's new book is dedicated to the values and traditions of the Japanese culture. Already in the early twentieth century, French scientist Henry Dumolard draws attention to the fact that the Japanese people are guided by their logic and draw conclusions that are often incomprehensible to Europeans. To understand the Japanese people, we need to know the values that form the core of their culture. A key to their understanding is the geographical environment, mythology, religion, and Japan's history.

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Йероглифите

Author(s): Bratislav Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian

The book I'm offering to the readers’ attention includes two parts - a brief introduction to the Chinese hieroglyphs in order to clarify their function in Japanese writing and etymology of one hundred Chinese hieroglyphs. The hundred hieroglyphs are selected by the Chinese Ministry of Culture in a way that is representative of the hieroglyphs as a whole. I hope this book will be useful to all who are interested in hieroglyphic cultures. – Bratislav Ivanov

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История на Япония

Author(s): Bratislav Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian

Bratislav Ivanov is a Bulgarian author of works in areas of linguistics and culture of Japan and a translator from Japanese language. He graduated in Japanese Language and Literature from the Moscow State University. He took his specialization at the Japanese Language Institute. He is the author of many Japanese language articles and books, as well as a series of translations of classical Japanese poetry. He is the first classical Japanese language teacher at Sofia University. Bratislav Ivanov teaches Theoretical Grammar of Japanese Language at Sofia University and Veliko Tarnovo University "St. St. Cyril and Methodius". At present, he is the director of the Bulgarian-Japanese Educational and Cultural Center at the 18th School "William Gladstone" in Sofia. In 2009, Bratislav Ivanov was awarded the oldest Japanese Order - the Order of the Rising Sun - for contributions to the Japanese language studies and his teaching in Bulgaria.

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Момчето

Author(s): Natsume Sōseki / Language(s): Japanese,Bulgarian

Like “The Catcher in the Rye” or “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “Botchan”, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, is a classic of its kind. Among Japanese readers both young and old it has enjoyed a timeless popularity, making it, according to Donald Keene, "probably the most widely read novel in modern Japan." The setting is Japan's Deep South, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a boys' school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; and the result is a chain of collisions large and small. Much of the story seems to occur in summer, against the drone of cicadas, and in many ways this is a summer book light, funny, and never slow-moving. Here, in a lively new translation much better suited to Western tastes than any of its forebears, Botchan's homespun appeal is all the more apparent, and even those who have never been near the sunlit island on which these calamitous episodes take place should find in it uninterrupted entertainment.

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Ръкопис за петте стъпала. Горин Но Шьо

Author(s): Miyamoto Musashi / Language(s): Japanese,Bulgarian

When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in 1643 and wrote The Book of Five Rings, a manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, and winning for his students and generations of samurai to come, he created one of the most perceptive and incisive texts on strategic thinking ever to come from Asia. Musashi gives timeless advice on defeating an adversary, throwing an opponent off-guard, creating confusion, and other techniques for overpowering an assailant that will resonate with both martial artists and everyone else interested in skillfully dealing with conflict. For Musashi, the way of the martial arts was a mastery of the mind rather than simply technical prowess—and it is this path to mastery that is the core teaching in The Book of Five Rings. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction.

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Пътепис

Author(s): Evliya Çelebi / Language(s): Bulgarian

Evliya Celebi was an enlightened man in a variety of ways who believed in equality, freedom of thought and intellectual debate, and found all of these things present in Islamic societies. Over the course of his travels, he wrote ten volumes detailing his adventures. ‘Seyahatname’ – Book of Travels – is a unique and important text, representing one of the few accounts of the 17th century and the Ottoman world from the perspective of a Muslim. These are not just factual accounts, Evliya had a great imagination and just as important as his journal entries were the imaginative storytelling that ran alongside, elaborating, exaggerating, and fantasizing. Through his stories, we are prompted to think more imaginatively about our own travels and journeys to other cities. This 17th-century Muslim traveler can sometimes seem narrow-minded and yet this same man can stand in St Stephens Cathedral in Vienna and be moved by the music he hears. Sometimes these encounters lead to nothing but sometimes they lead to stories which are so deeply felt, and so universally melodic that they leave echoes which can still be heard and felt today. In 2011, the year which would have been his 400th birthday, Evliya is being paid homage as UNESCO’s Man of the Year.

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Modern Quranic Hermeneutics: Abdulkarim Soroush on the Expansion of Prophetic Experience

Author(s): Abdullah Rexhepi,İsa Memishi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

. Since early times, Muslims have speculated on the nature of Revelation and the Divine Speech. This has resulted in Muslim scholars developing divergent approaches to this problem. With the constitution of the orthodoxy, the former school became dominant and it postulated that the Quran is the Word of God dictated to Prophet Muhammad through the angel Jabrail. However, during the last decades in Iran emerged scholars, such as Abdulkarim Soroush, who proposed new approaches to understanding and interpreting Revelation. This paper discusses the hermeneutical project put forward by Soroush by discussing his article on the “Expansion of Prophetic Experience”. In this article, the author argues that his modern hermeneutics is radically different from orthodox theology and problematizes that the idea that the Quran as a human creation brings about other implications outside theology, such as for instance opening the Muslim thought and liberating it from scriptural readings.

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Mandala and History: Bidia Dandarovich Dandaron and Buryat Buddhism

Author(s): Luboš Bělka / Language(s): English

The book brings an original presentation of unique materials from the mid- 1970s which have not been published in an English language monograph so far. It contains a visual analysis of historical photographs from Buryatia and Tibet and the analysis of author's own field observations and recordings of interviews.

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Gu Hongming prekursorem idei fuzji cywilizacji. Konfucjanizm jako ratunek dla Zachodu i świata

Author(s): Marek Tylkowski / Language(s): Polish

An intellectual biography of one of the most influential Chinese political and social thinkers at the turn of XIXth/XXth centuries.

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Tradiční rodina v Číně

Author(s): Aneta Dosedlová,Terézia Hegerová,Pavla Krajcová,Kateřina Mašková,Lucia Mydliarová,Zuzana Russeová,Nataliya Samoylova,Zuzana Shejbalová / Language(s): Czech

This book focuses on togetherness within a Chinese traditional family. Step by step, the specific structure of this kind of family, and the set of social codes and regulations it uses, unfolds. Although what is being discussed is an ideal image of a family, it has to be taken into account as the model which real families follow. In eight chapters, specific cultural and social phenomena are described, being, in the realm of the living: family, matrimony, and child-rearing; in the realm of the dead: ancestor worship, funeral rites, and visions of afterlife; and finally on the spiritual level, folk religion, traditional festivities, and attempts to change one’s destiny. For better understanding, the text is supplemented with pictures.

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DOMÁCÍ BOŽSTVA

Author(s): Zuzana Russeová / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

Posvátno hrálo roli v tradiční čínské kultuře už od nepaměti. Souznění čínského myšlení a značné dávky pragmatismu vede Číňany k využití veškerých cest a prostředků vedoucích k vytouženému cíli – tedy k harmonickému a spokojenému životu rodiny, potažmo i jednotlivce. K dosažení tohoto cíle je mimo jiné zapotřebí přispění božstev na nebesích i v záhrobí, duší předků i vnitřní substance předmětů, které má každý Číňan denně kolem sebe. Tradiční čínský světonázor je kombinací nejstarších kosmologických představ, kultu předků, konfuciánství, taoismu, buddhismu i materialismu. Toto vše se po staletí vzájemně mísilo a doplňovalo o další složky, čímž vznikla synkretická víra, označovaná jako „čínské lidové náboženství“

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SNAHY O ZMĚNU OSUDU

Author(s): Pavla Krajcová / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

Osud je v čínské kultuře vnímán jako daný, určený dobou zrození člověka. Přesto může mít různé podoby naplnění a je možné jej pozitivním způsobem ovlivňovat a vědomě utvářet. Existuje mnoho způsobů, jak ovlivnit běh života, které obvykle vycházejí z lidového náboženství a kosmologických představ. Jsou založené na starověkých představách, ale přesto si vydobyly své místo i v dnešní, moderní čínské společnosti. Patří mezi ně čínský horoskop sledující lidskou povahu a budoucnost, různorodé léčitelské a léčebné techniky a fengshui 风水 pracující s úpravou prostoru.

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Societas Classica. Култури и религии на Балканите, в Средиземноморието и Изтока. Том 10

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Greek, Modern (1453-)

𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑠 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎 is a multilingual collection of papers presented at the international scientific conference that has been organized by the Department of Classical and Eastern Languages ​​and Cultures of St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria) since 2002. Until 2015, the conference was held annually. Since 2018, it is held once every two years. St Cyril and St Methodius University Press issues the collection within the Dr. Nicola Piccolo series. The wide range of topics and the opportunity for authors to submit their academic publications in the original language attracts researchers from all over the world.

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Societas Classica. Култури и религии на Балканите, в Средиземноморието и Изтока. Том 9

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Russian,Greek, Modern (1453-)

𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑠 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎 is a multilingual collection of papers presented at the international scientific conference that has been organized by the Department of Classical and Eastern Languages ​​and Cultures of St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria) since 2002. Until 2015, the conference was held annually. Since 2018, it is held once every two years. St Cyril and St Methodius University Press issues the collection within the Dr. Nicola Piccolo series. The wide range of topics and the opportunity for authors to submit their academic publications in the original language attracts researchers from all over the world.

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Подстъпи към безпределното: граничната ситуация и "дао"-то на език

Author(s): Desislava Damyanova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The hermeneutic approach to the philosophical background of ancient Chinese thought reveals an aspiration to combine the traditional values of the East with the achievements of existential analytics. Daoist cultural heritage attracts Europeans not only with its mirror otherness but mainly with the harmonic relationship of man and nature, as oneness with the Way (道 – Dao). Many authors, including poets, writers, philosophers, cultural anthropologists, scientists, etc. have adopted the fundamental difference between the East and the West as a way of dichotomous thinking based on ontological and epistemological distinctions. Such presuppositions have become the starting point for elaborate theories, comparative studies and political science developments relating to the ‘far-eastern spirit’, peoples, traditions and destinies. We ask ourselves whether to construct an overview concerning the early Daoist parables and sayings as an imaginary whole is justified and to what extent. Despising technocratic rationality and the artificiality of modern technological culture, Daoism and the cultural orientations broadly associated with it, provide an ideal source of alternative creativity. It discloses the impermanence of the hidden meaning in life and the assumption that the universe or some fundamental issues in society could not necessarily be manifested in philosophical theories, but can be embodied in the performance of poetry, allegory, image thinking. It carries out a kind of philosophical criticism – the idea that with the transition from the epistemological to the ontological implication, the so called ‘common sense’ may exist in other branches of knowledge and modes of speech. Daoists focus on nonstandard, non-competitive mind, challenging the legitimacy of their own conceptual schemes. Dao-language implies the unconditional, irreducible presence of the Way which precedes all the artificially fixed meanings. The so called ‘image thinking’ encompasses the Boundless and is opposed to the distortion of any natural discourses. As a kind of incarnation of the Great Ultimate, the speech is born in the empty mind just as the sound occurs in silence, so ‘forgetting the words’ (Zhuangzi) is a precondition of any cognition.

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Cultural Diplomacy or Cultural Relations? Lost in Terminology and Rediscovering the Meaning of Culture

Author(s): Hilda-Hedvig Varga / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

When discussing such a complex concept as culture, it is forever interesting, even surprising, to find out what definitions people give to this all-encompassing notion; what better way to delve into Indian culture and the inner workings of cultural diplomacy and relations than to speak to someone most knowledgeable in the field, the Ambassador of India to Romania, Moldova and Albania, Mr. Rahul Shrivastava. His Excellency was kind enough to sacrifice his time in favor of cultural matters, despite his busy schedule.

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Neo-Confucian Ethics and Economic Development in East Asia: From the Perspective of Confucian Modernity and Political Democracy

Author(s): Yuxin Zhang / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

It is a theoretical and practical difficulty to re-examine the relationship between Confucianism and modernization in the era of "cultural globalization" and "postmodern". This study claims that the connection between Confucianism and modernization is determined by the continuity of social development and the historical inheritance of culture, based on the historical perspective and the enlightenment spirit of Confucianism. Even at the start of East Asia's modernization, Confucianism's Tradition never entirely faded from history, and Confucianism's involvement in the transformation of East Asian countries from tradition to modernity is obvious. From East Asia's authoritarian politics to Asian-style democracy, East Asia's political democracy is a shadow of Confucianism rather than a carbon duplicate of Western democracy. The new Confucian ethics has its own logic, emphasizing the importance of the self in all sorts of relationships, as well as the sense of obligation, self-control, self-cultivation, consensus, and cooperation. It places a great importance on politeness and education. It is mostly concerned with the credit community and government leadership. The "new Confucian ethics" incorporated some western principles into its ethical structure, resulting in the formation of a new modernity: East Asian industrial civilization, which aided East Asia's economic prosperity. Indeed, Confucian principles have shaped Chinese merchant culture and spirit in both traditional and modern periods, and the birth and shift of new ideas in Confucianism have the potential to disrupt the tradition. Confucianism will confront greater obstacles as well as more development prospects as society develops and there is more interaction, communication, and dialogue among many cultures around the world. Therefore, this paper presents the close relationship between the Neo-Confucian Ethics and the rise of Asia from the perspective of the modernity of the Confucian tradition in East Asia and Asian political democracy. Neo-Confucian Ethics has shaped Asia's industrial civilization, and Asia's economic development is consistent with the philosophical theory inherent in Confucian ethics.

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Mencius

Author(s): Ivo Pajorek / Language(s): Czech

The first complete Czech translation of one of the most important texts exploring the philosophy of Confucianism. The book Mencius, together with Confucius' Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean, constitute the Four Books, for many centuries a syllabus for Chinese civil service examinations. The book contains dialogues by the Master Meng or Mencius (372-289 BC) with various persons, including his disciples and rulers of the Warring States period. As a “wandering scholar”, Mencius tried to persuade them to choose the Way of ancient sage-kings in accordance with Confucian principles of humanity and righteousness. Mencius deals with various topics, including just government, proper governance, and human nature, but also comments on a few non-Confucian teachings, which he tries to eradicate with forceful arguments. The translation from Classical Chinese is accompanied by a brief introduction, bibliography and notes, which make it easier for readers who are not Sinologists to find their way into the text.

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Ślad Rzeczy. Dhammapada

Author(s): Joanna Jurewicz / Language(s): Polish

An original translation of Dhammapada, one of the most well-known Buddhist texts, believed by the followers to be words of Buddha himself. It contains teachings on good and noble life. The text is supplemented with the translator’s philological and cultural commentary.

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