Sentence examples for oriental civilization from inspiring English sources

It had boasted a high level of Oriental civilization, especially centring on Confucianism, Shintōism, and Buddhism.

In 1950, he created "Oriental Civilization," an elective course modeled on Contemporary Civilization.

He earned his university degrees in linguistics and oriental civilization, and joined the Italian Foreign Ministry in 1967, in the political office.

Coauthor of Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization) (2007); Perspectives on Ptolemaic Thebes: Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization) (2011); The Pyramid of Senwosret I: The South Cemeteries of Lisht (2012), among others.

Carman later charged de Bary with developing a core program in what was then called Oriental Civilizations and Oriental Humanities.

"It is not easy to really know China because China is an ancient civilization and we are of the Oriental culture," Wang said, according to a transcript.

Before coming to Harvard, Mahdi taught in the University of Chicago's department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations from 1957 to 1969.

Envisioned as a "laboratory for the study of the rise and development of civilization," The Oriental Institute was devoted to Breasted's quest to trace ancient man's "progress" toward civilization and to document the steps in the development of ancient cultures of the Near East.

Besides the missionaries, there were men in Bengal who, though admitting the value of Oriental learning for the advancement of civilization, thought that better things could be achieved through the so-called English education.

Mr. Grayling, meanwhile, called Mr. D'Souza "the greatest rewriter of history I've ever encountered," arguing that Christianity wasn't the wellspring of Western civilization but rather "an Oriental religion that erupted into European culture and derailed it for 1,000 years".

Occidental Jews have taken on many of the traits of Western culture, while the Oriental Jews, many of whom continued to speak Arabic and partake of a common Middle Eastern culture until the mass dispersions of Jews from Arab countries after 1948, have preserved many of the folkways and traits of Arab civilization.