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unusual facts about eastern world



Nalandabodhi

Nalandabodhi is overseen by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and several western Mitras and eastern lamas and acharyas.

Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman

The story (narrated by Terence McGovern) is notable for its mix of both eastern and western idiosyncrasy, most notably in the protagonist Zan (voiced by Greg Weber), who has traits of both a Japanese samurai and a Wild West gunslinger.


see also

Angela Malik

She runs the Angela Malik Cook Schools, 'New Flavours of the Eastern World' which are based in Gaynes Hall, Cambridgeshire and Acton, London.

Sankhni

Sankhni has a numbers of mosques and dargahs (Imam bargah's) which show influences from the best architecture of the middle eastern world, especially Mughal architecture.

Tengri

The similarity of dingir and tengri was noted as early as 1862 (i.e. during the early phase of the decipherment of the Sumerian language, before even the term "Sumerian" had been coined to refer to it), by George Rawlinson in his The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World (p. 78).