“Concealment” refers to keeping things hidden, whereas “revelation” means making things abundantly clear. As an artistic and literary term, this pair of opposites refers to a creative process in which some things need to be hidden and others abundantly clear. When applied to semantics or rhetoric, it refers to subtle or explicit modes of express…

Shi (时 time or timing) has the following three meanings: First, the sequence or rules of heaven’s way, such as spring, summer, autumn, and winter; or hours that mark changes of time during day and night; Second, a certain celestial phenomenon or climatic condition having impact on human activity, such as seasons for farming or timing for other act…

This concept refers specifically to the way of teaching and the use of Buddha statues and various symbols and virtual images to disseminate Buddhist beliefs. As such, image-based teaching is sometimes used to refer to Buddhism. There is a long history of image-based teaching in ancient China. The ancient Chinese believed that the way of governing al…

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