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  2. Bunraku - Wikipedia

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    The character Osono, from the play Hade Sugata Onna Maiginu (艶容女舞衣), in a performance by the Tonda Puppet Troupe of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture. Bunraku (also known as Ningyō jōruri (人形浄瑠璃)) is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day. [1]

  3. Christian ashram movement - Wikipedia

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    The Christian ashram movement (not to be confused with United Christian Ashrams) is a movement within Christianity in India that embraces Vedanta [1] and the teachings of the East, attempting to combine the Christian faith with the Hindu ashram model and Christian monasticism with the Hindu sannyasa tradition.

  4. Hinduism and other religions - Wikipedia

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    Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity differ on fundamental beliefs on heaven, hell and reincarnation, to name a few. From the Hindu perspective, heaven (Sanskrit: swarga) and hell (naraka) are temporary places, where every soul has to live, either for the good deeds done or for their sins committed. After a soul suffers its due punishment in ...

  5. Solar dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Both the Hindu Puranas and the Buddhist texts include Shuddodhana, Gautama Buddha, and Rahula in their accounts of the Ikshvaku dynasty but, according to the Buddhist texts, Mahasammata, an ancestor of Ikshvaku who was elected by the people as the first king of the present era, was the founder of this dynasty.

  6. ‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Drew Inspiration From Bunraku ... - AOL

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    This included drawing inspiration from Japan’s distinctive Bunraku puppets, which have carved heads and hands with elaborate costumes, co-operated by a trio of puppeteers dressed in black.

  7. Genroku culture - Wikipedia

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    Beauty Looking Back, by Hishikawa Moronobu. Genroku culture was mainly centered in the Kamigata area, containing both Osaka and Kyoto. [5] [6] Genroku culture was defined by the fashions and lives of everyday townspeople, particularly those of the merchant classes, whose rising monetary wealth led developments in decorative art, theatre and clothing; however, the samurai classes were also ...

  8. Category:Bunraku - Wikipedia

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  9. J. N. Farquhar - Wikipedia

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    John Nicol Farquhar (6 April 1861 – 17 July 1929) was a Scottish educational missionary to Calcutta, and an Orientalist.He is one of the pioneers who popularised the Fulfilment theology in India that Christ is the crown of Hinduism, though, Fulfilment thesis in Bengal was built on foundation originally laid in Madras by William Miller.