On Tuesday, 26 October 2004 04:18:10 UTC+10, Thomas J Wheat wrote:
> The earliest reported Dynasty in Chinese civilization was the ethnic
> Tibetan Chiang Hsiung Hsia, (Xsia) Dynasty founded in 2200 B.C.E.
>
> The Next Dynasty was the Shang Dynasty. This dynasty lasted from 1766
> B.C.E to approximately 1100 B.C.E. This dynasty featured rudimentary
> jade and Bronze Casting technology and the spirtual divination of the
> practices at that time focused on occult human and animal sacrifice.
> Once the victim was sacrificed the flesh was stripped from the bones
> and the bones were bleeched and set into the sacrificial fire.
> Depending on the nature of the fire searing the Bone, the cracks in
> those bones would determine the earliest basis for the Phylogy and
> phenomenology of the Chinese language character system.
>
> The Next Dynasty was the Zhou (Chou) dynasty. This dynasty was
> considered a golden age in Chinese history. This period began from
> roughly 1100 B.C.E. with intermitten decentralization of the
> feudatories and the beginning of the Iron Age in the Warring States
> Period from about 700 B.C.E. to about 225 B.C.E.
>
> The early great Philosophical kings of the Zhou Dynasty period were
> King Wu, Marshall Wei and the Duke of Zhou. The Duke of Zhou was
> considered an agricultural innovator by introducing the three seasonal
> three field crop rotation method.
>
> The Warring States period, (660 - 225 B.C.E.) featured a period of
> much civil war and political decentralization and yet also featured a
> revitilization of chinese philosophical thought. The earliest known,
> written works of this time were the I - Ching, and the philosophers
> of this time were Lao Tzu, composer of the Tao Te Ching, and earliest
> known chinese traveller to Amdo, Tibet. The creator of the Chinese
> Civil Service Academy was Kung Fu Tzu, composer of the Analects,
> (Confucius) and Meng Tzu who formalized confucian thought in the 2nd
> century B.C.E.
>
> Confucian thought centered on the principle of Ren and Li, Benevolence
> and proper ritual practices, repectively and also focused on ancestral
> spirit worship along with a practical mundane philosophy for a code
> among the Shin Shi, the philosopher Bureacrat knight.
>
> Other Books of this period focused on taoist gurellia warfare
> techniques and occult chinese opera. The most famous book of this
> later period, written approximately in 200 B.C.E. was Sun Tzu's, "Art
> of War."
>
> The end of the Zhou dynasty saw a revivalist of the eastern 12
> feudatory kingdoms of the Han dynasty unto their defeat by the Chin
> dynasty which culminated in the shortlived 25 year regime of a unified
> China under Chin Shi Huang Di with the rise of the Legalist positivist
> school of chinese occult political theocratic statecraft.
>
> The rise of the Chin Dynasty, 225 B.C.E. to 200 B.C.E. saw for the
> first time albeit a short time a unified and centralized China. Chin
> Shi Huang Di however did not tolerate dissedents to his rule.
>
> Many Books were burned, chiefly among them the Lost book of Poetry,
> and many of the Confucians, Daoists, and the Mohists, perhaps the
> world's first 'free love bohemian society' many had their bodies
> buried up to their necks in sand and then had their necks crushed, or
> were boiled alive in their own blood in huge iron vats. Other occult
> human sacrificial techniques also included scaling 5 foot in length by
> 1 foot in width razor ladders approximately 20 feet high with the
> survivor being granted clemency upon succesful ascent and descent of
> the razor ladder to heaven Gauntlet.
>
> Chin Shi Huang Di's regime was shortlived because he had no efficient
> bureacratic succession method. Out of his approximatelly 22 sons, he
> had originally designated his second son as his heir, however, the
> 17th son assasinated the second son and so the dynasty plunged again
> into chaos and disorder. He was entombed in a pyramid, and his
> sarcophagus rested on a floating lake of mercury. Archaelogical
> evidence of his skull revealed the existence of mercury poisoning
> which contributed to the disfigurement of his spine and death in his
> mid to late sixties. His tomb had approximately 10,000 chin soldiers
> each bearing a unique likeness and representation of the soldier who
> had the misfortune of being entombed alive with the death of Chin Shi
> Huang Di.
>
> Qin Shi Huang Di was also obssessed with the search for immortality.
> This caused him to seek many a chinese alchemist potion and Taoist
> sexual practices intended to increase his Chi, or life force.
> Unfortunately few worked for him as evinced by the mercury traces in
> the forensic analysis of his skull.
>
> The next dynasty was the Han dynasty. This dynasty lasted from 200
> b.c.e. to about 400 C.E. During the latter half of this period saw the
> rise of the silk road Eastern Western, European Asian trade routes and
> the formation of the Pax Sinica and the Pax Romana. Indeed at Julius
> Caesar's coronation, Han red silk imperial banners were featured.
>
> The Han dynasty represented a technological revolution of Iron age
> bronze lost wax casting methods. The consolidation of East west Silk
> route trade was facillitated between the Han of china and the Mauryan
> Asokan dynasty of India, and the Parthians, descendants of Cyrus,
> Xerxes and Alexander's Generals of Persia to the Roman Empire of the
> Mediterraniean.
>
> During this period Trade between India and China began to commence
> with the silk route importation of metaphysical Tai Chi and Kung Fu,
> along with the Buddhist philosophical thought of the Theravadan
> Tripitaka, Pali Canon and importation of Mahayana commentary by
> Kumarajiva, and Nagarjuna, (Mahamadyikma,
> http://www.khandro.net/Bud_philo_Madhyamika.htm , Sunyata, the Great
> Void School) http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9001321 and
> also see
> http://www.iep.utm.edu/n/nagarjun.htm ) propagated by Chinese pilgrims
> to India disseminating such thought upon returning to China, chiefly
> the most famous of them being Fan Shen, Bodhi Dharma, and Zhuang
> tZuan, (Hsuang Tzuan) the first pioneers across the Tamalakarand
> XinJiang desert beginning in the latter half of the second century
> B.C.E. to about the end of the 7th century C.E.
>
> During this time the pilgrmage Stupas, of Swayambunath
> ( http://www.sacredsites.com/1st30/swayambh.html ) and Bhodunath,
> http://www.exodus.co.uk/picfiles/a00hp49a.html were constructed and as
> legend would have it by Padmasambhava himself. Inside these temples
> legend maintained the existence of secret caverns, where death to all
> mortals prevailed and the existence of Naga dragon guardian Serpent
> kings.
>
> The decline of the han saw the rise of the Tang Dynasty in China
> beginning about roughly in the 7th century and ending roughly in the
> 9th century. (600 C.E. to about 900 C.E. Tang China's most powerful
> Ruler, Tang Taitzu still nonetheless had his capital, Changan sacked
> and held for 30 days by 250,000 Tibetan Calvarymen of the northern
> Western Tibetan Tribes led by Gyalpo Srongtsen Gampo. A treaty was
> concluded in approximately 760 C.E whichwas formalized by stone
> pillars erected in both Changan and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa which
> stipulated the equalness and equality of the hegemonic temporal power
> both nation states shared in the Indian middle eastern Silk Route
> trade routes. As a condition of the treaty between Tibet and China,
> the chinese emperor seceded his daughter Princess Wen Chen, along with
> the arrival of the Jowo Sakyamuni statue to the Jokhang cathedral in
> Lhasa. It was reputed that princess Wen Chen Brought the secrets of
> chinese agriculture to the nomadic pastorlist Tibetans. Srongtsan
> Gampo also took a nepalese bride from the King of Nepal.
>
> The Tibetan Yarlung Dynasty began about approximately 225 B.C.E. when
> legend had it that the first king of heaven descended from the sky on
> a meteroite lightning bolt phurba. He was named Namri Sangpo.
>
> In the 8th century tibetan kings opened up more cultural and
> philosophical trade routes with India, and conquered, Ladhak and
> Khotan during the regimes of Tri Song Detsun, (Thi Song Detsun) and
> Hathori Nyantsen, and Ralpachen. During this period was marked by the
> arrival of the Kashmiri Pandit, Padmasambhava who first pacified and
> integrated Bonpo indigenous Tibetan occult theology with Tantric
> Buddhist and Hindu theologies. India also borrowed much from tibet, as
> it was reputed that the Home of Shiva was none other to be found then
> in Mt. Kailash in Tibet.
>
> Tibetan military dress was influenced both by Chinese armor
> construction techniques as well as the importation of persian scale
> mail. Tibetan cultural influences have been ecceltically varied from
> cultural importation of Zorastrianism and Mongolian Shamanism.
>
> The Tibetan Yarlung dynasty ended with the assasination of the Bon po
> king Lang Darma and the rise of the Tibetan Priest Class to temporal
> power.
>
> Meanwhile in China the fall of the Tang at approximately the same time
> of the assasination of lang darma culminated in the rise of the
> Nothern - Southern Song (Sung) Dynasty which lasted from 960 C.E. to
> about 1163 C.E. The bureacratic state philosophy of this time featured
> the principle of Wu - Wei, or Void full non action, in the sense
> that the ruler and the subjects existed in symbiotical rings of
> temporal influence. The latter half of the Southern song (Sung)
> Dynasty saw the formation of Chan Shaolin Buddhist warrior monks who
> feuded with Mongolian Hsia, Hun, Shamanist Buddhist nomadic warrior
> chieftans.
>
> The Song dynasty was virtually entirely annihilated by Ghengiss,
> (Chingiss) Temujin Khan, (b- 1163 c.e. d- 1227 c.e.) and also by his
> grandson Kublai khan by 1242 C.E. with the formation of the Yuan
> Dynasty. It was during this period that the Altaeic Pax mongolica
> superseded the Pax Sinica and Centralization of the trade routes
> between east and west opened up more far east trade with the Venetian
> republics of Italy and the declining Maecadonian Byzantium Empire.
> Marco polo an early Italian historian and merchant traveller to Kublai
> khan's court and also the first importer of pasta from china left many
> a account in his diary concerning the coutenance and the statecraft of
> the Mongol Yuan Court.
>
> During this time the Mongols made Tibet a military Protectorate and
> enlisted the Tibetan Lama's as their Chief Shaman's. The most famous
> of these Lama's was Sakya Pandita. The system of limited suzeranity
> applied to Tibet by the Mongol Khans envisaged a Cho Yon, priest
> patron relationship, with the priest obliged to pray for the welfare
> and long life of the emperor, and the emperor, obliged to protect the
> wealth and authority of the Kagyu Karmapa's and later Sakya and then
> Gelugpa patriarchs of the Tibetan church as well as provide for the
> national defense of the Tibetan state from foreign invaders. Unlike
> Europe this was a centralized Feudal System unlike a decentralized
> feudal system.
>
> Meanwhile the Mongols rocketed across the Urals and sacked Russkian
> Kiev and Novgorod and Vladimir Volynia, Suzdalia Rostav in the 1237 -
> 1242, winter military campaigns as well as Austria, Hungary and Poland
> during the same period. Led by Temujin's Grandson, Batu the Russian
> Mongols converted to Islam however they invested the title of Grand
> Prince of Vladimir - Kiev with Alexander Nevsky a enobled Russian
> orthodox saint and collaborater with the Mongols. Thus the Orthodox
> Slavic Ruirkid Rus Dynasty was spared total annhilation.
> see this link for more info:
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004XQN5/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/102-5157557-6512121
> Eisenstein - The Sound Years (Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2, Alexander
> Nevsky) - Criterion Collection (1938)
>
> The Yuan Dynasty fell in 1388. The Mongols continued to rule russia
> until the rise of Ivan Grozny IV (Ivan Vassiliovich) when Moscow a
> hill fort established by the Mongols superseded the Vladimir Suzdalian
> Rostov, Pskov municipalities.
>
> The Mongols would still continue to dominate Central Asia well into
> the 17th and 18th centuries though later as decentralized tribal
> confederacies.
>
> The Ming Dynasty which began in 1388 also saw the catalouging of the
> Yuan official court records, as recorded in the 'Yuan Po Pao Shi,'
> also translated into English, as "the secret history of the Mongols,"
> by the Harvard, Yen Ching Institute, see source:
> Secret History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chingiss Khan by Paul
> Kahn, Francis Woodman Cleaves
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0887272991/102-5157557-6512121?v=glance
>
> The Ming Dynasty was founded in 1388 by a former Buddhist Peasant
> monk. Pictorial portrait:
> http://www.chinapage.com/painting/mingtaizu.html
>
> The Ming dynasty was an age of great exploration and cultural
> renesseance for the first half of the dynasty. During this time many
> seafaring voyages to Africa and the mideast occured until the rise of
> the Portegeuse and the Dutch hegemons of the West. However, somewhere
> during the middle half of the dynasty, due to the proliferation of
> bureacratic Eunuchs in the royal household circumvented the
> centripetal authority of the Emperor. The latter half of the Ming
> Dynasty was known as the Great Withdrawal period were China once had
> the technoligical crest of civilization then due to western hegemonic
> consolidation of the Silk Road Gun Powder and Ship Wright construction
> trade fell behind the west. The Ming Dynasty fell in 1644.
>
> They were replaced by Manchurian Jin Tribesman led by the tetrarchy of
> Dorgan, Nur Haichi and Hong Taiji who established the Qing (Pure)
> Dynasty. The greatest rulers of this dynasty were KangXi, 1654—1722
> http://www.chinapage.com/emperor/qing1204.html
> selected reading:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20020316043349/http://www.stanford.edu/class/history92a/readings/kangziyongzheng.html
>
> YongZhen, and Qianlong. After these regimes the neo Confucian Qing
> state began to bureacratically and inertially implode due to the
> Protestant opium wars. The Qing dynasty fell in 1911, when the boy
> emperor Pu Yi was deposed by Yuan Shi Kai.
>
> Republican China began with Sun Yat sen.
>
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