Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...
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Bora Aksu On His AW25 Collection, Visiting Austria & The BFC's New Sustainability Requirements
After a recent research expedition to Vienna, visiting the Empress’s residence (now a museum) and seeing her belongings up ...
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Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
(The Conversation) — In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year ...