Chinese Lunar Stations and Indian Nakṣatras in the Sui and Tang Periods
The twenty-eight “lunar stations” (ershiba xiu 二十八宿) are unique in Chinese intellectual history in that they served as functional equivalents for Indian nakṣatras, which are also a type of lunar station (or mansion), but in practice these were quite different from the comparable Chinese system. The...
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2023
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Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 10 |
Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B Moon B Amoghavajra B Zhanran B Tiantai B Jizang B Sanlun B Xiao Ji B Zhiyi B Astronomy |
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