Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

In the winter of 505 BCE, Yang Hu — a retainer of the Ji family — rose up in rebellion and seized power from the Ji family.

However, by the summer of 501 BC, the three hereditary families had succeeded in expelling Yang Hu from Lu.

Yang Hu, who was a subordinate of the Ji family, had dominated the Lu government from 505 to 502 and even attempted a coup, which narrowly failed.

In a passage of Zhang Heng's cosmogony not translated by Needham, Zhang himself says: " Heaven takes its body from the Yang, so it is round and in motion.

The MV Sik Yang, a 2, 818-ton Malaysian-flag cargo ship which sailed from Tuticorin, India on 25 May 1999 was reported missing in waters near Sri Lanka.

Malaysia is a constitutional elective monarchy, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is selected for a five-year terms from among the nine Sultans of the Malay states.

Shang Yang, a scholar from the Legalist School, in his book " The Book of Lord Shang, refers to several measures taken by the state.

Other important styles are Zhaobao t ' ai chi ch ' uan, a close cousin of Chen-style, which has been newly recognized by Western practitioners as a distinct style, and the Fu style, created by Fu Chen Sung, which evolved from Chen, Sun and Yang styles, and also incorporates movements from Baguazhang ( Pa Kua Chang ).

* Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty orders the capital to be transferred from Chang ' an to Luoyang, and orders the Grand Canal to be built.

* After the completion of the Grand Canal of China, Emperor Yang of Sui led a recorded long naval flotilla of ships from the north down to his southern capital at Yangzhou.

( Rendering: the 3rd year of Yongding, 559, Gao Yang conducted an experiment by having Yuan Huangtou and a few prisoners launch themselves from a tower in Ye, capital of the Northern Qi.

The paradox taken from the Yin and Yang symbol in martial arts, also integrated in his poetry.

As a generalization, Yang foods tend to be dense in food energy, especially energy from fat, while Yin foods tend to have high water content.

A person eating too much Yang food might suffer from acne and bad breath while a person eating too much Yin food might be lethargic or anemic.

* The earliest extant Chinese illustration of ' Pascal's Triangle ' is from Yang Hui's book Xiangjie Jiuzhang Suanfa, published in this year, although knowledge of Pascal's Triangle existed in China by at least 1100.

Lord Shang Yang, a Qin statesman, introduced a number of militarily advantageous reforms from 361 BC until his death in 338 BC, and also helped construct the Qin capital, Xianyang.

Between 604 to 609, Emperor Yang Guang ( or Sui Yangdi ) of the Sui dynasty ordered a number of canals be dug in a ‘ Y ’ shape, from Hangzhou in the south to termini in ( modern ) Beijing and in the capital region along the Yellow River valley.

After the canal's completion in 609, Emperor Yang led a recorded long naval flotilla of boats from the north down to his southern capital at Yangzhou.

Pangu set about the task of creating the world: he separated Yin from Yang with a swing of his giant axe, creating the Earth ( murky Yin ) and the Sky ( clear Yang ).

Completion of the Loy Yang power stations, extensive voluntary departures from the electricity industry and privatisation of the Victorian electricity industry in the early 1990s had devastating effects on the economy of the Latrobe Valley.

* Wei Yang, Biologist, Ph. D. from Columbia university and now a senior investigator at NIH.

Gebhard was from the Babonen clan.

This is due to the fact that the clan originally immigrated to Kamchatka from Kunashir in 1789.

As was customary among the Lombards, Alboin took the crown after an election by the tribe's freemen, who traditionally selected the king from the dead sovereign's clan.

He was the son of Asser Rig, a magnate of the Hvide clan from Fjenneslev on Zealand.

Military appointments are all reviewed by President Teodoro Obiang, and few of the native militiamen come from outside of Obiang's Mongomo-based Esangui clan.

In the Aeneid ( published circa 17 BC ), Vergil claims the descent of Augustus Caesar's Julian clan from the hero Aeneas through his son Ascanius, also called Iulus.

Beginning from the 7th and 8th centuries, emperors primarily took women of the Fujiwara clan as their highest wives — the most probable mothers of future monarchs.

Earlier, the emperors had married women from families of the government-holding Soga lords, and women of the imperial clan itself, i. e. various-degree cousins and often even their own sisters ( half-sisters ).

The five Fujiwara families, Ichijō, Kujō, Nijō, Konoe and Takatsukasa, were the primary source of imperial brides from the 8th century to the 19th century, even more often than daughters of the imperial clan itself.

The Empire was founded in the late 13th century in northern Somalia by a group of Somalis from the Warsangali branch of the Darod clan, and was ruled by the descendants of the Gerad Dhidhin.

One of these clans, the Minamoto clan are also known as Genji ( 源氏 ), and of these, the Saga Genji ( 嵯峨源氏 ) are descended from 52nd emperor Saga.

The Abe clan are said to have descended from a son of Emperor Kōgen.

The Miwa sept of the Kamo clan claim descent from this Ōtataneko personage.

One of these clans, the Minamoto clan ( 源氏 ) are also known as Genji, and of these, the Yōzei Genji ( 陽成源氏 ) are descended from the 57th emperor Yōzei.

The Fujiwara clan ( 藤原氏 Fujiwara-shi ), descending from the Nakatomi clan, was a powerful family of regents in Japan.

After this downfall, the younger branches of the Fujiwara clan turned their focus from politics to the arts, producing any number of literary luminaries like Fujiwara no Shunzei or Fujiwara no Teika.

Similarly, the name of the ruling Ashina clan possibly derives from the Khotanese Sakā term for " deep blue ", āššɪna.

The Göktürk rulers originated from the Ashina clan, a tribe of obscure origins who lived in the northern corner of Inner Asia.

There they ultimately settled, and being strengthened by fresh accessions of the same clan from Europe, they overran Bithynia and supported themselves by plundering neighbouring countries.

Muhammad was born into the Banu Hashim tribe of the Quraysh clan, a branch of the Banu Kinanah tribe, descended from Khuzaimah and derived its inheritance from the Khuza ' imah ( House of Khuza ' a ).

The clearances followed patterns of agricultural change throughout Britain, but were particularly notorious as a result of the late timing, the lack of legal protection for year-by-year tenants under Scots law, the abruptness of the change from the traditional clan system, and the brutality of many evictions.

In addition, political rivalry from the Bilala clan was becoming intense.

Sometime between 1300 to 1400 CE, Kongolo Mwamba ( Nkongolo ) from the Balopwe clan unified the various Luba peoples, near Lake Kisale.