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    Meir Shahar (Hebrew: מאיר שחר, born in 1959 in Jerusalem) is the Shaul Eisenberg Chair for East Asian Affairs at Tel Aviv University. Meir Shahar attended...
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    Ravana Shahar, Meir (2014). "Indian Mythology and the Chinese Imagination: Nezha, Nalakubara, and Krshna". In John Kieschnick and Meir Shahar (ed.). India...
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    Yuan periods allude to military training at the temple. According to Meir Shahar, this is explained by a confluence of the late Ming fashion for military...
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    Balasubramanian et al.), ISBN 81-208-0262-4, pp. 125-138 John Kieschnick and Meir Shahar (2013), India in the Chinese Imagination - Myth, Religion and Thought...
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    skill. In The Shaolin Monastery (2008), Tel Aviv University professor Meir Shahar claims that Sun influenced a legend concerning the origins of the Shaolin...
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    contributed to the public's perception of or belief in deities. Hence, Meir Shahar, in his 1996 chapter on "Vernacular Fiction and the Transmission of Gods'...
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    bodies strong and well-prepared for battle. Martial historian Prof. Meir Shahar notes Yue's mention as a lineage master in the second preface of the...
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    Worship and Esoteric Buddhism in the Dali Kingdom". In Bentor, Yael; Shahar, Meir (eds.). Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism. Studies on East Asian...
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  • caused some confusion. Fong Sai-Yuk Shaolin kung fu Tiandihui/Hongmen Shahar, Meir (December 2001). "Ming-Period Evidence of Shaolin Martial Practice"....
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    University Press. pp. 143–144. ISBN 978-0-521-31333-9. John Kieschnick; Meir Shahar (2013). India in the Chinese Imagination: Myth, Religion, and Thought...
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    the Buddha, he wields a spear and an embroidered ball. According to Meir Shahar, the name Nezha comes from Nalakuvara, depicted as a heroic yaksha general...
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    children with the medieval historian Shulamith Shahar, one of them was the Israelian sinologist, Meir Shahar. He died in Paris in 1997. Poet and chemist...
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    and southeast Asia. In his book The Shaolin Monastery (2008), Prof. Meir Shahar notes Vajrapāni is the patron saint of the Shaolin Monastery. A short...
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    Retrieved 2021-04-17. Chinese and Tibetan esoteric Buddhism. Yael Bentor, Meir Shahar. Leiden. 2017. ISBN 978-90-04-34050-3. OCLC 967456890.{{cite book}}:...
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    from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021. Yael Bentor; Meir Shahar, eds. (2017). Chinese and Tibetan esoteric Buddhism. Leiden. ISBN 978-90-04-34050-3...
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    also silent about him creating any styles of his own. The historian Meir Shahar notes Yue's mention in the second preface of the Sinew-Changing Classic...
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    of History and Innovation. ABC-CLIO. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-59884-244-9. Meir Shahar (2008). The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial...
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    Chi. Translated by Gary Seaman. University of California Press. 1988. Shahar, Meir (2017). "The Tantric Origins of the Horse King: Hayagrīva and the Chinese...
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    China. University of California Press. pp. 186–. ISBN 978-0-520-24084-1. Meir Shahar (2008). The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial...
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    Yigal Allon briefly served as Acting Prime Minister until he was replaced by Meir. 3 Rabin resigned and called for early elections in December 1976. After...
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  • University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago Meir Shahar, professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University...
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  • in Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, edited by Yael Bentor and Meir Shahar, pages 88-89, Brill, 2017 Michel Clasquin-Johnson, On the Death of the...
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    Meir Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Wisser (March 7, 1809 – September 18, 1879), better known as the Malbim (Hebrew: מלבי"ם), was a rabbi, master of Hebrew...
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    rubbings and published in Japanese, to be translated by P.A. Herbert. Meir Shahar had the advantage of being able to study the stele embedded in the brick...
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  • "China" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, 1878. Shahar (2001). Shahar, Meir, The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial...
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    ISBN 978-1442281837. 898 pp. 2019 – (with Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meir Shahar, Gideon Shelach). Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical, Cultural...
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    September 29, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-09. Liang, 2002: pp. 15–16. Shahar: pp. 113–114. Shahar, Meir. The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese...
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    Broughton 1999, p. 109. Broughton 1999, pp. 54–55. Broughton 1999, p. 108. Shahar, Meir (2008). The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial...
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  • Chinese Mythology: King Yama and his Acolytes as Gods of Destiny” in Meir Shahar and John Kieschnick, India in the Chinese Imagination (2013) “The Impact...
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    Meïr Halevi (Max) Letteris (Yiddish: מאיר הלוי לעטעריס; 13 September 1800 – 19 May 1871) was an Austrian poet, editor, and translator of the Galician Haskala...
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