Developments in the systematic study of ancient civilizations through the disciplines of Classics and Egyptology informed both archaeology and eventually social anthropology, as did the study of East and South Asian languages and cultures.

The thoughts and ideas discussed and refined during this period have profoundly influenced lifestyles and social consciousness up to the present day in East Asian countries.

According to Cavalli-Sforza, Ainu are in the same genetic cluster as the " Northeast and East Asian ".

For example, there are differences between African, East Asian and Indo-racial groups in how they metabolize alcohol.

Interpenetration and essence-function are mutually informing in the East Asian Buddhist traditions, especially the Korean Buddhist tradition.

The scope of the Department of Asia is extremely broad, its collections of over 75, 000 objects covers the material culture of the whole Asian continent ( from East, South, Central and South-East Asia ) and from the Neolithic up to the present day.

* Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts

The need to support more writing systems for different languages, including the CJK family of East Asian scripts, required support for a far larger number of characters and demanded a systematic approach to character encoding rather than the previous ad hoc approaches.

* Conical Asian hat, a simple style of straw hat originating in East and Southeast Asia

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

Other British comedies examined the role of the Asian community in British life, including Bhaji on the Beach ( 1993 ), East Is East ( 1999 ), Bend It Like Beckham ( 2002 ), Anita and Me ( 2003 ) and Death at a Funeral.

Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.

* Asian Currency Unit: proposed for the ASEAN + 3, or the East Asian Community

* China Rediscovers its Own History 100 minute lecture on Chinese history given by renowned scholar / author Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.

This theme of mutuality is prevalent in East Asian cultures even to this day.

Referred to variously as the Confucian hypothesis and as a debated component of the more all-encompassing Asian Development Model, there exists among political scientists and economists a theory that Confucianism plays a large latent role in the ostensibly non-Confucian cultures of modern-day East Asia, in the form of the rigorous work ethic it endowed those cultures with.

Category: East Asian religions

Category: East Asian culture

Buddhist cuisine is an East Asian cuisine which is followed by some believers of Buddhism.

The entrance to Chiang's tombsite at Tzuhu ( Cihu ) uses the official posthumous rendering of Chiang Kai-shek ( Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts | from right to left ): The President ( space ) Lord Chiang Mausoleum.

In most of East Asia today, the Gregorian calendar is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional East Asian holidays such as the Chinese New Year, the Duan Wu festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in astrology, such as choosing the most auspicious date for a wedding or the opening of a building.

With the assistance of Seiichi Tanaka, Kinnara and Chicago taiko, the New York Buddhist church established the first taiko group on the East Coast, Soh Daiko, in 1979.

Newer present-day world religions established themselves throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages by: Christianization of the Western world ; Buddhist missions to East Asia ; the decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent ; and the spread of Islam throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and parts of Europe and India.

East and Central Asian Buddhist monks are recorded as having visited the kingdom.

Christine Mollier concluded that a number of Buddhist sutras found in medieval East Asia and Central Asia adopted many materials from earlier Taoist scriptures.

In East Asia, the swastika is a Chinese character, defined by Kangxi Dictionary, published in 1716, as " synonym of myriad, used mostly in Buddhist classic texts ", by extension, the word later evolved to represent eternity and Buddhism.

The Buddhist sign has been standardized as a Chinese character ( pinyin: ) and as such entered various other East Asian languages such as Japanese where the symbol is called ().

In East Asian countries, the left-facing character is often used as symbol for Buddhism and marks the site of a Buddhist temple on maps.

* Tara Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center located in the suburb of East Brighton in Melbourne

During these years he and Joshua ( which, as Biff points out, is the original Hebrew version of the Hellenized " Jesus ", and thus in Galilee Jesus was called Joshua Bar Joseph ) travel to the East to seek the Three Wise Men ( a magician, a Buddhist, and a Hindu Yogi ) who attended Joshua's birth so that he may learn how to become the Messiah.

Notably, his efforts represent one of the earliest attempts to combine the scientific understanding and reasoning of the West with the Buddhist religion of the East.

In the period 850-1025 A. D., Palembang prospered as a centre of trade between the East and West and as a center of Sanskrit and Buddhist learning.

Apocryphal Jatakas of the Pali Buddhist canon, such as those belonging to the Paññāsajātaka collection, have been adapted to fit local culture in certain South East Asian countries and have been retold with amendments to the plots to better reflect Buddhist morals.

His translation of the Heart Sūtra became and remains the standard in all East Asian Buddhist sects.

In particular, Gupta period Buddhist art was to be influential in most of East and Southeast Asia.

Five centuries later, the Bodhisattva Guanyin went out in search for disciples that could protect a pilgrim from the East to journey to India to retrieve the Buddhist sutras.

Dismayed that " the land of the South knows only greed, hedonism, promiscuity, and sins ", the Buddha instructs the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara ( Guanyin ) to search Tang China for someone to take the Buddhist sutras of " transcendence and persuasion for good will " back to the East.

Ksitigarbha, a highly-revered bodhisattva in East Asian Buddhism, is occasionally mistaken for Xuanzang because the former is often portrayed like Xuanzang-dressed in a similarly-patterned kasaya, wearing a Buddhist crown, and wielding a khakkhara.

" It " is a multivalent term of great importance in later Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism " which " also occurs occasionally in Hindu and East Asian Buddhist esotericism.

Critical thinking can be traced in Western thought to the Socratic method of Ancient Greece and in the East, to the Buddhist kalama sutta and Abhidharma.

Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of African, Amerindian, European, East Indian, and Chinese cuisine.

Dairy products are commonly found in European, Middle Eastern and Indian cuisine, whereas they are unknown in traditional East Asian cuisine.

The large numbers of immigrants from the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe in Mexico have influenced Mexican cuisine as well, but the most influential is Spanish cuisine.

It is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of the Middle East ( including Pakistan and Afghanistan ), Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Europe and North America, and is also important in Africa, parts of East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

A type of barbecue known as " Colombian cuisine | Ternera a la Llanera " from the Colombian marshlands, here seen at a street fair in the East Village, Manhattan, New York City

Fish sauce is a staple ingredient in numerous cultures in Southeast Asia and the coastal regions of East Asia, and features heavily in Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Philippine cuisine.

Post-war Australia's multicultural immigration program lead to a diversification of the cuisine of Australia, particularly under the influence of Mediterranean and East Asian migrants.

Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and particularly since the late 1970s, an Israeli fusion cuisine has developed, with the adoption and continued adaption of elements of various Jewish styles of cuisine including Mizrahi, Sephardic, Yemeni Jewish and Ashkenazi, and many foods traditionally eaten in the Middle East.

East Bengali food, which has a high presence in West Bengal, is much spicier than the West Bengali cuisine, and tends to use high amounts of Chilli, and is one of the spiciest cuisines in India and the World.

The cuisine of South Asia has roots in Persia, Turkey, and the Middle East as well as practices taken from the Hindu beliefs practiced by the large population found in the region.

In the United Kingdom, " Asian cuisine " most often refers to South Asian cuisine, while in the United States and Australia it usually refers to East Asian ( Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ) and Southeast Asian cuisine, in addition to South Asian cuisine.

In the UK, South Asian food such as Indian and Pakistani cuisine is also a popular form of take-away, as well as kebabs from the Middle East.

It was derived from Indian cuisine and came into Indonesia with the influx of Indian migration to Dutch East Indies in early 19th century.