The Fall of Globalism, the Rise of Populist Nationalism, & the Question of 'Global History' It seems as though the world is cha...
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Showing posts with label Asia. Show all posts
1904 - Tibet's Marriage with Modernity
I recently finished reading Edmund Candler’s The Unveiling of Lhasa (Thomas Nelson, 1905). What follows are my first impressions and refle...
Amitabha - Buddha of Infinite Light
When not travelling to exotic climes, by far the majority of my time working at the British Museum is spent at a desk. But every now and th...
Mountain Climbing by Mistake
It isn’t often that you find yourself climbing a mountain by mistake. Or at least, hopefully , it isn’t. Then again, if we take ‘climbing a...