Oriental passion to honor the dead
To promote the expiation of sins committed on earth, pious donations were common; the chaplaincy was the more common religious foundation, which was intended to secure in perpetuity a number of votes for the eternal repose of the soul of the patron or patrons. To ensure its continued maintenance, ma...
Published in: | Asian Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Vol. 3, no. 1 (2013), 123-136 |
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