Shu Hui

Questions live longer than answers - Joe Fitzgerald

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

The adaptability of religion in SEA is impt because we need to relate to religion to develop personal faith in it #hwc111 #exit

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

@PumpkeenFonduu @SotongTay What you mentioned in the class sharing :)

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

@PumpkeenFonduu This was explored by a previous hwc blog :) Thinner Buddhas (SEA) & Laughing Buddha (China) https://t.co/3ptWQt4UYP #hwc111

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

#grp2 wonders why some Buddha sculptures are portrayed as skinny & some as fat (Laughing Buddha)! #hwc111 @PumpkeenFonduu

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

@PumpkeenFonduu Arms were maybe eroded over time. Interesting similarity to naked Mali women in #Battuta - cultural norms r relative #hwc111 https://t.co/NKUGpqpYYF

[z @MeexBerryFonduu]

@MeexBerryFonduu did they all look like that (facial features, extended ear lobe...)? Was the woman's arm purposely being cut off? #HWC111

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

@PumpkeenFonduu Most of our sculptures are created from bronze too! Some from stone and clay (eg. the tile) #hwc111 #grp2

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

@chonis8 @PumpkeenFonduu This is similar to @MeexBerryFonduu 's artifact! Both from #angkor - with similar posture & topless. #hwc111 #grp2

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

@PumpkeenFonduu Similarity that many of our artifacts are abt Buddha! Influence of Buddhism seen across Thailand & Burma #hwc111 #grp2

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

Bali is interesting because it is heavily influenced by Hindusm despite Indo being mainly an Islamic country #hwc111 #entry

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

Also reflects extensive influence of Buddhism in SEA. This tile was found in a temple in #burma ! #hwc111 https://t.co/5t64VrqEsX

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

Found this interesting cause I didn't know there was a demon, Mara, who tried to disrupt the Buddha's Enlightenment #hwc111

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

Late 15th C - tile depicting warriors of Mara's army sent to disrupt Buddha's meditation before Enlightenment #burma #hanthawaddy #hwc111

[mangala dharshini @mag_dharshini]

@helloworldciv #hwc111

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

Interesting post abt the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela that I came across on hwc previously! https://t.co/HnPa4aiBxg #hwc111 #africa

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

Were the Mongols Muslims when they invaded Persia & Iraq? Did they only convert later? Were they influenced by Dar al-Islam? #hwc111 #grp5

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

Q3 Battuta heard of a sheikh who was saved by an elephant, so certain grps of Muslims believe eating elephants is prohibited #hwc111 #grp5

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

Also answers Q4 as the Sufis' way of practicing Islam is quite unique and unlike the practice in Mali/other places #hwc111 #grp5 https://t.co/LdJq7qdFJd

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

Africa: Savannahs, apartheid, poverty...and tribal communities which were arbitrarily split up into countries by colonial powers #hwc111

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

The religious endowments at Damascus, which help the less fortunate, support what we learnt about Islam and its core belief #battuta #hwc111

[Shu Hui @oshhui]

#Battuta is motivated to travel (in the direction of Mecca) due to his religious devotion, persevering even when ill with a fever #hwc111