Here are the predictions for November 2025, from Old Moore's Almanack (Foulsham)

"Thomas avoided [being killed by a falling chimney] only because he had stopped to play with the family cat which had crawled under a table, an early instance perhaps of his strong survival instinct as well as his persistent dancing with danger."

On the weekend, I had the chance to teach a two-day course on ritual propriety 禮 in the Lunyu #論語 for @LMU_Muenchen. Great discussions during our exploration of what li actually is and how it could translate into our contemporary socio-political realities. #ChinesePhilosophy

1. In or around 1889, Persian was officially replaced by Urdu as the court language of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Yet, the language lingered in formal and semi-official circles for decades. An example is this wedding invitation from June 16, 1913, issued for the

there is, amusingly, a Pāli phrase for “touch grass”: “haritāni tiṇāni āmaseyyāsi” (literally “rub fresh grass”) [said to be one of the practices recommended for purification by western brahmins in AN 10.176]

The image of a Christian angel is localized in Vietnam, 19th century Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945)✝️ #Vietnam #Vietnamese #越南 #Nguyendynasty #阮朝 #Vietnamese_culture #History

• Two 19th Vietnamese paintings portray the Biblical Day of Judgment, when the dead rise and the Lord returns in glory to lead the righteous to the Kingdom of Heaven, reflecting a striking convergence of Western Christian imagery and Eastern artistic sensibility✝️ #Vietnam #越南

@EtherDais May X be free of cursed and disturbing content; may it be free of the causes of cursed and disturbing content ; may it be free from strife and the causes of strife; may all users approach one another with friendship and equanimity; may they all benefit one another.

"However many beings there are in the ten directions, May they all be always happy and healthy. May all beings be successful in their Dharma goals, And may their wishes be fulfilled. {15} https://t.co/n4eOlGlvcK

" 'Two-legged beings, be well. Four-legged beings, be well. When you set out, be well; And when you return, be well. " Be well in the daytime; be well in the night; Be well at midday, too. May all of you be always well; May all of you know no evil. https://t.co/mCL5cY1z89

新宿区大久保駅近くの「東京媽祖廟」に参拝した。創始者は台湾の女性の方で、元々日本に留学経験があり日系企業に就職していたが、ある日夢の中に女神媽祖が現れ「日本に行き事業を起こし廟を建てろ」と指示した。それに従い日本で生活し、やがて在日台湾のコミュニティと連携して2013年に媽祖廟を建立

From today, O Sapientia, my personal rule is that full-colour silly Christmas jumpers can be worn for any event. From Advent Sunday Christmas-themed jumpers can still be worn, but they must be tasteful and discreet

It does exist indeed! And even more! Apparently there is a whole sub-genre of post-war Sanskrit Marxist-Leninist poetry 🤯: ‘Kewalanand Sharma wrote a poem titled, “Lenin-kusumāñjaliḥ.” Shivadatta Sharma authored a kāvya, Karl Marx-śatakam, …’

One odd thing about the classics in the United States is that you ended up with "hillbilly intellectuals" and JD Vance comes from that tradition. The thing about an education based on the Great books is that you just have to take two or three books into the frontier.

This example comes from the 2021 edn of the 永經堂 almanac fom Hong Kong: It is notable for 1- using "Suzhou" numbers for the taels https://t.co/x2YHEzZeDw 2- Not going up to 7.2 taels: The entries stop at 7.1 taels

every now and then I think about the fact that Peter Barlow, in 1811 published a table of the squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots and reciprocals of all integers form 1-10,000 and it makes me happy https://t.co/MrrNZtJb3m

@HistorianZhang you can draw a straight line from lin zexu to zuo zongtang, and to the rise of 20c chinese nationalism and beyond. when your most upright officials cannot enforce the empire's laws because of general weakness, confucian moral qualms are of little force

(1/6) 大乗仏教において最も重要なことは、 他者の為に尽くす「利他行(りたぎょう)」にあります 自分だけでなく、他者も共に救済するというのが大乗です これを理解する上で肝要なのは、 「因縁」と「無我」という二つの観念であると思います 「因縁」とは、物事が生じる直接的な原因(＝因)と、 ↓続

I tend to be wary of this characterisation, but you can’t help feeling that this 19th c. Indian Qadam Rasul ceremony/festival is very Dharmic: sandalwood paste's applied to the footprint, food's offered to it, then distributed; ghee lamps lit, music; there's a statue of Buraq?

Twenty years ago, a colleague in ancient philosophy asked me if I'd be willing to read Greek with an undergrad in the summer. I agreed. We had a great time reading Aristotle, which he hadn't read in Greek before. NOW ...

There's an entire parallel scientific corpus most western researches never see. Today i'm launching https://t.co/6FZMFpFvSb, a fully automated translation pipeline of all Chinese preprints, including the figures, to make that available.