User:PHG
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<<< "Barnstar awarded in recognition of PHG's work on starting the History of Buddhism page." (Thanks Nat!)
>>> "Here's the Barnstar of High Culture. Excellent work! --Historian 07:28, 30 September 2005 (UTC)" (Thanks Historian!)
[edit] Places I've been
[edit] Created articles
[edit] Created drawings
 Hadda triad |
 Kanishka casket |
 Greek soldier in the Tarim |
 Patna sofa capital |
 Ai-Khanoum capital |
 Ai-Khanoum statue |
 Ai-Khanoum fragment |
 Taxila Indo-Greek artifacts |
 Indo-Scythian soldiers |
 Indo-Scythian dancers |
 Trojan horse in the art of Gandhara. |
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 Greek devotee within Buddhist arcade |
 Greek man reading books |
 Stupa in Sirkap |
 Indo-Greek king |
 Greek and Indian combatants |
 Devotee couple in Greek dress. |
 Indo-Greek infantry |
 Indo-Greek cavalry |
 Butkara Stupa capital |
 Butkara Stupa capital |
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 Indo-Scythians pushing Dyonisos |
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 Abdagases I |
 Sirkap statues |
 Indo-Parthians |
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 Known representation of the Buddha in Kanishka's coinage |
 Representations of the Shakyamuni Buddha in the coinage of Kanishka. |
 Representations of Maitreya in the coinage of Kanishka. |
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 First known rudder, on a junk (1st c.CE) |
 Chinese Buddha, 200CE |
[edit] Created maps
 Satavahana empire |
 Buddhist embassies of Ashoka |
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 Migrations of the Yuezhi |
 Embassy of Zhang Qian |
 Expansion of Mahayana |
 Expansion of Theravada |
 Spread of Manichaeism |
[edit] My photographs
My User ID on Wikipedia Commons is PHGCOM.
[edit] British Museum
 Zhou vase with Western designs |
 Stone palette |
 Stone palette |
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 Stone palette |
 Chinese jade plaque |
 Detail |
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 Mauryan ringstone |
 Punjab carnelian seal |
 Steatite container |
Zhou vase (3rd c BCE) |
 Sculpture at Bassae |
 Sculpture at Bassae |
 6th pillar of Ashoka |
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 The Kanishka casket |
 Kushan triad |
 Carved wooden beam in Hellenistic style, 3-4th century CE |
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 Coin of Azes I |
 Emaciated Buddha |
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 Adsho |
 Yaudheya coin |
 Assyrian warship |
 Parthian cataphract. |
[edit] Victoria and Albert Museum
 Zhou plate with Hellenistic designs |
 Female spouted figure, terracotta, Charsadda, Gandhara, 3rd-1st century BCE. |
 Mother Goddess (fertility divinity), derived from the Indus Valley tradition, terracotta, Sar Dheri, Gandhara, 1st century BCE. |
 Hellenistic scene, Gandhara, 1st century CE. |
 Detail |
 Detail |
 Detail |
 Ichthyo-centaur |
 Mahaparinirvana |
[edit] Le Louvre
 Rosette (design) on a funerary stela |
 Mithraism relief at the Louvre |
 A pilaster decorated by a corinthian capital and a female figurine, Athens, 2nd-1st century BCE. |
 Palmyrene deities |
 Man in Phrygian costume |
 Man in Parthian costume |
[edit] Cabinet des Médailles (Paris)
 Gold stater of Eucratides, the largest gold coin ever minted in Antiquity. |
 Silver coin of Ariarathes III |
 Coin of Eumenes I |
 Gold coin of Diodotus |
 Coin of Antimachus I |
 Tetradrachm of Euthydemus I |
 Coin of Pharnabazes |
 Tetradrachm of Mausolus. |
 Hunting scene showing king Khosrau I. |
 Greek helmet with swastika marks |
[edit] Musée de la Marine (Paris)
 La Gloire |
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 Combat de la Martinique |
[edit] Musee Guimet (Paris)
 Prince Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni (1st-2nd century). |
 Buddha head (2nd century). |
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 Buddha in acanthus capital. |
 The Bodhisattva Maitreya, 2nd century. |
 Wine-drinking and music, Hadda (1st-2nd century). |
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 Serindian art |
 Hadda portraits |
 Begram gladiator |
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 Begram vase fragments depicting a fighting scene. |
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 Plaster mold from Begram. |
 Plaster mold from Begram depicting a cupid. |
 Plaster mold from Begram. |
 Plaster mold from Begram. |
 Plaster mold from Begram depicting a Greek soldier. |
 Buddhist triad |
 Serindian group, 6th-7th century terracotta, Tumshuq (Xinjiang). |
 Head of a Serindian man, 6th-7th century terracotta, Tumshuq (Xinjiang). |
 Head of a Serindian female Bodhisattva, 6th-7th century terracotta, Tumshuq (Xinjiang). |
 Serindian head, 6th-7th century terracotta, Tumshuq (Xinjiang). |
 Eastern Wei Dynasty Buddha |
 Pala Empire Buddha |
 A Cambodian Buddha, 14th century |
 Kushan man |
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 Sunga Atalante |
 Mathura Bodhisatva |
 Mathura Buddha |
 Gupta Buddha |
 Mathura Gupta head |
 Scene of the life of the Buddha (2nd-3rd century). |
 Buddha capital |
 Mons wheel |
 Stone palette |
 Cupids with the Buddha |
 Cupids with garlands |
 Polychrome Hadda Buddha, 2nd century CE. |
 Young Hadda woman, 3-4th century. |
 Mara's assault on the Buddha |
 Gandhara Buddha |
 Fragment of the wind god Boreas, Hadda, Afghanistan. |
 The Gift of Dirt |
[edit] Tokyo National Museum
 Japanese Paleolithic stone tools |
 Jomon pottery |
 Jomon pottery |
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 Jomon statuette |
 Yayoi jar |
 Haniwa house |
 Haniwa horse |
 Asuka statuette |
 Kofun period bronze |
 Kofun period armour |
 Japanese Nanban-style cuirass |
 Nakahama Manjiro's travels |
 Standing Buddha (1st-2nd century). |
 Seated Maitreya |
 Seated Buddha |
 Kushans and Maitreya |
 Kushans and Maitreya |
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 Northern Wei Dynasty Buddha |
 Northern Qi Dynasty Bodhisattva |
 Temple tiles from Nara, 7th century |
 Vine and grape scrolls from Nara, 7th century |
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 The Buddha, Asuka period, 7th century |
 Tocharian inscription |
 Yaksa supporting a Greek scroll |
 Hellenistic decorative scrolls from Hadda, northern Pakistan. |
 Bacchanalian scene, representing the harvest of wine grapes, Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, 1st-2nd century CE. |
[edit] Tokyo Science Museum
 Japanese 18th century clockwatch |
 Japanese 18th century book on anatomy |
 Tanaka Hisashige's 1851 perpetual clock |
 Japanese 19th century clockwatch |
 Japan's first electrostatic generator (1776), developed through Rangaku. |
 Tea-serving karakuri, with mechanism, 19th century. |
 A Western book on medecine, translated into Japanese, published in March 1808. |
 Japan's first manual on electric phenomena, published in 1811. |
[edit] Ancient Orient Museum (Tokyo)
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 Gandhara Poseidon |
 Gandhara Triton |
[edit] Zenyōmitsu-ji (Tokyo)
 The dream of Queen Maya. |
 The sharing of the relics. |
 The Buddha at Sarnath. |
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 The Paranirvana of the Buddha. |
 The birth of Siddharta, (2nd-3rd century). |
 The Great Departure from the Palace, (2nd-3rd century). |
[edit] Shanghai Museum
 Westerner on a camel (Tang) |
 Western on camel |
 Tang vase |
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 Kingdom of Wu jar |
[edit] Personal collection
 Buddha head from Hadda |
 Coin of the Mauryan empire |
 Coin of the Sunga empire |
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 Greco-Bactrian king Eucratides |
 Indo-Greek king Apollodotus I |
 Indo-Greek king Antialcidas |
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 Kuninda coin |
 Coin of Maues |
 Indo-Scythian king Azes II |
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 King Azes II |
 Coin of a Western Kshatrapas |
 Gupta king |
 Coin of the Indo-Hephthalites |
 Coin of the Chutus |
 Coin of Hebrew king Alexander Jannaeus |
 Thracian coin |
[edit] Travels
 Oppenheimer beach, St John, Virgin islands |
 The US Navy base at Yokosuka |
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 Monument to William Adams |
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 Japanese Kofun |
 Training center for the Kairyu. |
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 Inside Moroiso inlet, with a view of mount Fuji. |
 Boat being forklifted in Moroiso. |
 Boat in Misaki harbour. |
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 The old Chinese city in Shanghai |
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 The desert road between Marrakesh and Essaouira. |
 The ramparts from the Medina. |
 A building just outside the old city. |
 The citadel by the harbour. |
 Camel tours on the beach. |
 A typical room in a "Ryad" hotel. |
 The Prytanee |
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 Tsunami at Kata Noi |
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 Tsunami at Kata Noi |
 Tsunami at Kata Noi |
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 The pool. |
 A room ("Treetop Casita No30"). |
 A private buggy. |
 The north shore of Pamalican, near the "Windsurf Hut". |
 Fishing boats beached in front of the main village. |
 The Catholic church. |
 Circambulation of a stupa |
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 The Mont Blanc |
[edit] Calligraphy
[edit] Tools
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- Quotations:
"Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations Quotations"[1]
— Appian, The Syrian Wars
- Quote of deactivated technical lines with <nowiki></nowiki>:
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[edit] Quotes
- "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." --Bertrand Russell
- "The mind of the superior man dwells on righteousness; the mind of the little man dwells on profit" --Confucius, Analects
- "Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be." --William Adams
- "Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else." Tennessee Williams
- "I don't want to be 85 years old and have my grandkids go, Ewwww. Grandpa did some dumb shit. I'd rather have them say, Wow, man, you're nuts!" Johnny Depp
- "Nul n'est prophète en son pays" (French proverb)
- “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”Thomas Jefferson
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