Dirk Herbert Arnold Kolff (born 11 February 1938) is a Dutch historian and Indologist. Born at Rotterdamin the Netherlands, Kolff earned a doctorate degree from the Leiden University in 1983 with a doctoral thesis on the research subject of armed peasantry in northern India. He is a professor emeritus of modern South Asian history and the former Chair of Indian
Dingzhou, or Tingchow in Postal Map Romanization, and formerly called Ding County or Dingxian, is a county-level cityin the prefecture-level city of Baoding, Hebei Province. As of 2009, Dingzhou had a population of 1.2 million. Dingzhou has 3 subdistricts, 13 towns, 8 townships, and 1 ethnic township. Dingzhou is about halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang, 196 kilometers (122 mi) southwest of Beijing, and 68 kilometers (42 mi) northeast of Shijiazhuang. Contents History
Dâu Pagoda(Vietnamese: chùa Dâu), also known under formal names: Diên Ứng (延應寺), Pháp Vân (法雲寺), and Cổ Châu, is a major Buddhist temple in Thanh Khương commune, huyện Thuận Thành, Bắc Ninh Province.Located some 30 km east of Hanoi, the temple historically marks the ancient settlement of Luy Lâu, once an important center of Buddhism in Vietnam. 500m farther away lies the
Datura is a genus of nine species of poisonous, vespertine-flowering plantsbelonging to the family Solanaceae.They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil’s trumpets (not to be confused with angel’s trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia). Other English common names include moonflower, devil’s weed, and hell’s bells. All species of Datura are poisonous and potentially psychoactive, especially their seeds and flowers, which can cause respiratory depression, arrhythmias, fever, delirium, hallucinations, psychosis,
The Darzi (Urdu: درزی, Hindi: दर्ज़ी), sometimes pronounced Darji, are a Muslim community, found in North India and Pakistan. A small number are also found in the Terai region of Nepal. Darzi means tailor in Hindustani. They are also known as Idrisi or Idrisi chota jaat . Contents History and origin Present circumstances In India In Pakistan See also References History and origin The Darzi claim descent from Idris (Enoch), one of the biblical and Islamic prophets.
The Daqin Pagoda (Chinese: 大秦塔) is a Buddhist pagoda in Zhouzhi County of Xi’an(formerly Chang’an), Shaanxi Province,China, located about two kilometres to the west of Louguantai temple. The pagoda has been claimed as a Nestorian Christian church from the Tang Dynasty. Contents Etymology History Features Speculation about Christianity See also References Citations Sources External links Etymology Daqin is the ancient Chinese name for the Roman Empire or, depending on context, the Near East,
Daoxuan (Chinese: 道宣; pinyin: Dàoxuān; Wade–Giles: Tao-hsüan; 596–667) was the Chinese Buddhist monk and patriarch of the Vinaya school, who wrote both the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks (續高僧傳 Xù gāosēng zhuàn) and Standard Design for Buddhist Temple Construction. In legends he is attributed with the transmission of the Buddha relic called Daoxuan’s tooth, one of the four tooth relics enshrined in the capital of Chang’an during the Tang dynasty.
Dabo Pagoda, also known as pagoda of many treasures, is located in the temple of Bulguksa in Gyeongju, South Korea. From entering the temple through the Cheongun and Baegun Bridge, Dabotap is located on the right side, opposing Seokgatap on the left side. The pagoda is supposed to have been built in 751, the 10th year of the Shilla king Gyeongdeok. It is currently designated as National Treasure no. 20.
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil servant is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency or public sector undertakings. Civil servants
Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar (19 November 1875–13 May 1950) (Marathi: देवदत्त रामकृष्ण भांडारकर was born in Marathi Gaud Saraswat Brahminfamily. He was an Indian archaeologist and epigraphist who worked with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). He was the son of eminent Indologist, R. G. Bhandarkar. Early life Bhandarkar was born on 19 November 1875. On graduating in History, Bhandarkar joined the ASI