Ismail Bey and Mehmed Pasha, sons of Veli Pasha of Thessaly and grandsons of Ali Pasha of Ioannina.
Ismail Bey and Mehmed Pasha. Portraits of Louis Dupré c. 1819.
Tag: Travel
Historical travel literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. The discovery of the world
Inhabitants of Xiamen, China. 19th c.
Inhabitants of the south chinese city Xiamen at the end of the 19th century.
View of the Yuenfu Monastery near Foochow (now Fuzhou), China 1871.
Yuen-fu Monastery Cave, Fukien province, China. THIS Buddhist monastery is remarkable rather for its romantic situation than for any historical associations. Illustrations of China and its people by John Thomson.
Amoy Harbour. The Port of Xiamen in 19th century.
Amoy, today Xiamen, Fujian Province China, was one of the earliest ports to which foreigners resorted.
The Abbot and Monks of Kushan Monastery about 1870.
The similarity between the Buddhist faith and the Roman Catholic churches may be traced even more minutely than this. “Buddhists everywhere have their monasteries and nunneries, their baptism, celibacy and tonsure, their rosaries, chaplets, relics, and charms, their fast-days and processions, their confessions, mass, requiems, and litanies, and, especially in Tibet, even their cardinals, and their pope.”
Old bridge in Chao-Chow-Fu, Guangdong, China.
Guangji Bridge (Chaozhou). Kwangtung province, China.
Chinese Pagoda, Kwangtung Province, on the right bank of the Han river.
The one shown here stands on the right bank of the Han river, near Chao-chow-fu, and, like all the best examples of such edifices, the whole ground structure up to the first story is composed of stone.
Macao in 1834. The settlement of Chinese, British and Portuguese traders.
The occupation of Macao by a grant from the head of the celestial empire to the Portuguese, as a reward for their services against the pirates infesting the islands at the mouth of the Canton river, took place on or about the year 1586.
Tolling of Buddhist Bells and the series of 108 strokes.
Monks in Buddhist monasteries toll bells 108 times daily, symbolizing the Chinese year and believed to soothe souls.
Pilgrimages and the sacred hills of Buddhism in China.
The main source of the popularity and vitality of ordinary religious pilgrimages in all parts of the world seems to be this, -that they are among the few mundane activities in which keen physical and mental enjoyment may coexist with an exhilarating sense of religious fulfillment.