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The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great ...

Christopher I. Beckwith - History - 1993 - 308 pages
This narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia from about A.D. 600 to 866 depicts the struggles of the great Tibetan, Turkic, Arab, and Chinese powers for ...
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Koguryo, the Language of Japan's Continental Relatives: An Introduction to ...

Christopher I. Beckwith - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 297 pages
This book describes the Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and Korea, including Koguryo and Japanese ethnolinguistic history, Koguryo's genetic relationship ...
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Phoronyms: Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction

Christopher I. Beckwith - Classifiers (Linguistics). - 2007 - 254 pages
This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as «cup» in «a cup of tea», classifiers such as «head» in ...
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Koguryo

Christopher I. Beckwith - Social Science - 2007 - 297 pages
This book describes the Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and Korea, including Koguryo and Japanese ethnolinguistic history, Koguryo's genetic relationship ...
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Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the ...

Christopher I. Beckwith - Education - 2012 - 231 pages
"In this provocative book, Christopher I. Beckwith traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient ...
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Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia

Christopher I. Beckwith - History - 2015 - 300 pages
How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western philosophy Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during ...
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The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great ...

Christopher I. Beckwith - History - 1993 - 303 pages
This narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia from about A.D. 600 to 866 depicts the struggles of the great Tibetan, Turkic, Arab, and Chinese powers for ...
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Central Asia in World History

Peter B. Golden - History - 2011 - 192 pages
A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where ...
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Shadow of the Silk Road

Colin Thubron - Travel - 2012 - 386 pages
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