Eastern philosophy
Set of philosophies originating in Asia
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| 2023 |
Sherpa people
Nepal census revealed that 250,637 people (1.1% of Nepal's population) identified as Sherpa, with only 9,435 speaking a second language.
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| August 2022 |
Kural
Governor of Tamil Nadu, R. N. Ravi, publicly criticized Anglican Christian missionary G. U. Pope for 'translating with the colonial objective to trivialise' the spiritual wisdom of the Kural, claiming Pope produced a 'de-spiritualised version' of the text.
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| 2021 |
Nondualism
Gamma & Metzinger published a phenomenological analysis presenting twelve factors of pure awareness experienced by meditators, including insights into luminosity, emptiness, non-egoic self-awareness, and witness-consciousness.
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| October 2021 |
Kural
Central Institute of Classical Tamil announced plans to translate the Kural text into 102 world languages.
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| 2020 |
Kural
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recited Kural couplets to the Indian armed forces.
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| April 2018 |
Sherpa people
An NPR report revealed that Sherpas account for one-third of all Everest deaths, with a total of 118 Sherpa deaths on Mount Everest between 1921 and 2018.
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| 2017 |
Sherpa people
A genetic study confirmed limited genetic sharing from the Indian subcontinent among Sherpa populations, contradicting earlier findings from 2014.
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| 2016 |
Sherpa people
A study of Sherpas in Tibet suggested that a portion of their allele frequencies originated from separate ancient populations, estimated to have been distributed for 11,000 to 7,000 years.
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| April 26 2016 |
Kural
The Madras High Court directed the Tamil Nadu state government to include all 108 chapters of the Books of Aram and Porul of the Kural text in school syllabus for classes VI through XII, starting from the academic year 2017–2018, to 'build a nation with moral values'.
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| January 2016 |
Kural
Chitravina N. Ravikiran set the entire 1330 verses of the Kural to music in a record time of 16 hours.
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| 2015 |
Sherpa people
A comprehensive study of 582 Sherpa individuals from China and Nepal revealed that Y-chromosome haplogroup D-M174 was most frequently found, with a genetic distribution pattern similar to Tibetans.
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| December 2015 | Confucian personalities formally established a national Confucian Church in China to unify Confucian congregations and civil society organizations. |
| April 25 2015 |
Sherpa people
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal triggered avalanches in the Khumbu Icefall area, which became the deadliest disaster in Everest's history, killing 10 Sherpas at Everest Base Camp.
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| 2014 |
Sherpa people
A genetic study found considerable genetic components from the Indian Subcontinent in Sherpa populations, with western Y chromosomal haplogroups comprising almost 17% of the paternal gene pool.
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| April 18 2014 |
Sherpa people
A catastrophic avalanche at Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest killed 16 Nepalese guides, mostly Sherpas, when a serac collapsed above the icefall, causing massive chunks of ice and snow to fall.
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| 2011 |
Sherpa people
Nepal census recorded 512,946 Sherpas within its borders, providing a significant population count for the ethnic group.
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| 2010 |
Sherpa people
A genetic study identified over 30 genetic factors that make Sherpa bodies uniquely adapted to high altitudes, including the EPAS1 'super-athlete gene' which regulates hemoglobin production for more efficient oxygen use.
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