Intelligence Reimagined
Executive Briefing: The Literati Elite Instituted in the Sui and Tang dynasties and perfected in the Song, the Keju examination system selected state adminis…
Executive Briefing: The Metaphysical Revival Responding to the metaphysical challenges of Buddhism and Taoism, Song Dynasty master Zhu Xi (1130–1200) synth…
Executive Briefing: Innate Knowing Ming Dynasty general-philosopher Wang Yangming (1472–1529) broke with Zhu Xi, asserting that principle (*Li*) is not fou…
Executive Briefing: Max Weber Reconsidered While Max Weber claimed Confucianism lacked the ascetic rationalism to spawn capitalism, the modern rise of South …
Executive Briefing: The Architecture of Perpetual Rebirth Every twenty years since 690 CE, the Grand Shrine of Ise is completely dismantled and rebuilt ident…
Executive Briefing: Cleansing the Mirror of the Heart Shinto theology replaces the Western concept of original sin with Kegare (spiritual stagnation, polluti…
Executive Briefing: The Eight Million Kami (Yaoyorozu no Kami) Shinto does not conceive of God as a transcendent external sovereign; the sacred (*Kami*) is t…
Executive Briefing: The Imperial Mythological Canon Compiled in 712 CE, the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) narrates the churning of the primordial ocean…
Executive Briefing: A Millennium of Fusion For over a thousand years until the Meiji restoration’s forced separation (*Shinbutsu Bunri*), Shinto and Buddhism…
Executive Briefing: The Sacred Recharging of the Neighborhood A Matsuri is the somatic and energetic climax of Shinto communal life. Parading the Kami throug…