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Humanities Story

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2022 Reading List 2022 has been pretty slow so the majority of what I've read has been from my Humanities class but after reading them they seemed pretty interesting. I have read a manga that has been pretty popular and amazing in terms of writing.   Hawley, Jack. The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners . New World Library, 2011. This is a translation of the Bhagavad Gita and in this book it explains the moral dilemma of  Arjuna and how he is unable to kill his family members in order to take his kingdom back. Arjuna's dilemma allows Krishna to teach Arjuna and enlighten him on Hinduism. This is then used to enlighten the readers about Hinduism and achieve true enlightenment and give everything to Krishna just like Arjuna.  Bresnan, Patrick. Awakening: An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought . 6th ed., Routledge, 2022. This is a book that provides the reader with a thorough and valuable overview of the historical development of the major Eastern Religiou...
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The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology Online Visit

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CEREMONIAL SUIT OF ARMOUR FOR SAMURAI , 1600-1868 Given to Magdalen College by Prince Chichibu (1902–53)  and is on long-term loan to the Ashmolean  Museum, Oxford,  England Hello everyone this is my blog on  The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. The artifact that I chose was a ceremonial suit of armor used for samurai.  I just finished eating dinner and saw this assignment was due the next day so I started to look at some museums to chooser an artifact from. The first museum I chose was the Ashmolean Museum. At first I was just trying to complete the assignment as fast as possible but as I started to look more into their online collection of Eastern historical artifacts. The amount of artifacts they had made me really interested in what this specific museum had to offer. They have Indian, Chinese, and Japanese artifacts. I briefly go over each section they had but the area that me the most intrigued was Japan. While India and China are beautiful pla...
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Daoism and Confucianism

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    On chapter 13 and 14 in the book "Awakening An Introduction to the history of Eastern Thought" by Patrick S. Bresnan talks about Confucianism and Daoism. The main ideas where how they came about and what these religions meant and did for people. Both of them were invested in nature. While they were a little different, they had the same general idea of letting nature take its course in everyone's life. "Thus, in a broad sense, Confucius was in agreement with the fundamental view of Daoism"(Bresnan 339). They had the same end goal but somewhat different ways on getting hints to why there is two religions of the same goal just like the  Shakyamuni Buddhism and Theravada  Buddhism.   The person in the picture is Confucius, the originator of the idea of Confucianism       For the chapter 13 question I chose w hat did Confucius mean by saying that human society had gotten out of harmony with the larger natural order that it is a part of? Would...
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The Story of Buddhism

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       Short Brief of Buddhism      In this Blog post I will be talking about Buddhism and how it has an affect on the lives of its practitioners. Both of these chapters talk about the practicing of Buddhism. The differences between these two chapters though are that they each are talking about a different type of Buddhism. Chapter 11 talks about Theravada Buddhism, while chapter 12 talks about Mahayana Buddhism. The main ideas of both of these chapters is explaining the differences between the two Buddhism's and their teachings. " As mentioned earlier, the history of Buddhism is broadly divided between two great traditions, Theravada (also known as Hinayana) and Mahayana. Over time, Mahayana would become the larger and historically more influential movement"(Bresnan 243). Theravada Buddhism was a lot more exclusive on who was able to achieve freedom from pain and followed more from the oldest school in Buddhism, while Mahayana Buddhis...
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The Story of the Bhagavad Gita

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     The Bhagavad Gita's translation by Jack Hawley was an amazing piece of Hindu Literature. This translation of the Bhagavad Gita is no different from the original piece of literature. The Bhagavad is in the perspective of a prince named Arjuna. Arjuna is about to fight in a massive war against is own kin and because they are his own kin he is extremely scared and doubtful to fight them asking himself is it right to kill my own family to reclaim my kingdom. Arjuna's chariot that is carrying him into battle is being controlled by the deity, Krishna. "Now that Arjuna has submitted himself as a pupil, Krishna transforms into His true role as the Divine Teacher. He tightens the reins in His hand, looks long into the crestfallen warrior’s eyes, and begins to speak"(Hawley 32). Krishna can sense these emotions in the distraught Arjuna. Mid battle Krishna begins to lecture Arjuna about his current emotions and encourages him to fight the battle. Krishna begins to enlight...
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The Story of the Indus Valley Civilization

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    Today I will be comparing and contrasting two sources of media talking about the Indus Valley Civilization. One of these sources is a textbook named " Awakening An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought" by Patrick S. Bresnan. I will be using the first chapter, India Before the Vedas, for the comparison and contrast. The first chapter of the textbook talks about how the Indus Valley people began, their mark on Indian culture, their technological miracles, their downfall, and eventually their replacement. The other source is a video documentary, called Indus: An Unvoiced Civilization, of cities of the Indus Valley Civilization.  Ruins of an Indus Valley Civilization called Mohenjo-Daro https://www.worldhistory.org/Indus_Valley_Civilization/     A fact that I learned from the video that I did not learn from the text is that the early civilizations showed no signs of war and even children toys signifying they lived in peace and harmony w...
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