There exists almost thousand-year pilgrimage of a statue of the Sandalwood Buddha in Beijing. This statue is called in Buryat as Zandan Zhuu and recent depiction of the statue is located in Buryatia since 1901 in Egita Monastery in southeastern Siberia. This article is focused on recent religious history as well as the mythologic or legendary stories in Buryatia. From the standpoint of the history of religions, the situation about the statue is more complex, and at present, it is probably not possible to determine the exact and provable origin of Zandan Zhuu (ie. whether Beijing Sandalwood Buddha is identical with Zandan Zhuu). For common believers in Buryatia however is existence of “their” statue as the Sandalwood Buddha undoubtable and it is a part of the religious history of the Buddhist Buryatia.
Knižní vydání Goethovy tragédie Egmont z roku 1871 v českém překladu Josefa J. Kolára vyšlo jako 13. díl jeho sebraných spisů. Děj se odehrává v Bruselu ve 2. pol. 16. stol.
This text presents Egon Bondy’s political thought at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, with special focus on his texts “The Dictatorship of the Proletariat” and “2000” (both written in 1949/1950), which represent one of the first expressions of Marxist criticism of Soviet-type society after 1948 in Czechoslovakia. The introductory study analyses Bondy’s evaluation of the Soviet Union as “fascism in its most advanced form”, and the implications of the fusion of economic and political power. It also points to the continuity of this type of Marxist criticism with earlier critiques written by Josef Guttmann and Záviš Kalandra in the 1930s and 1940s, while also pointing out how these texts by Bondy in some ways anticipated his later analyses from the 1960s, in which he understood Eastern Bloc regimes as examples of state capitalism. Following this introduction, we print a revised and annotated edition of Bondy’s “Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” and Petr Kužel (ed.),