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= January 23 =

Kutlehar State
Can anybody share more facts and figures of wars fought by the state from 1337-1803? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.77.53.84 (talk) 08:18, 23 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry you didn’t get a reply. Can you suggest any other search terms we might use? All I found for Kutlehar was a list of royal names, and even Kangra just brings up passing mentions in books like History of the Punjab Hill States, India’s Princely States and Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India. 70.67.193.176 (talk) 20:54, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

A Taoist quote source
I read The Essential Tao by Thomas F. Cleary and it was great. But I'm looking for info about a specific Taoist master he quotes, Fu-kuei-tzu.

I cannot find anything about this person online, so I'm curious if they're a legendary figure or real. GoutComplex (talk) 18:24, 23 January 2023 (UTC)


 * That's a Wade-Giles type transcription. You may have better luck searching the web if you can find the Pinyin equivalent. AnonMoos (talk) 19:40, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I wonder if there is a work or app that can facilitate transcriptions between the various Romanisation schemes? As a small boy in Hong Kong I was exposed to Wade-Giles (I think; or possibly Yale; or both), and though I have forgotton 99.5% of the 'Cantonese' I learned, I still find other romanizations harder to grasp. At least I don't fall into the trap of thinking that Pinyin letters always have the same value as in Western languages. "Bay Jing" indeed! {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.199.212.198 (talk) 08:14, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't have the most recent edition at hand, but The Chicago Manual of Style used to include a table of Wade-Giles–pinyin equivalents. Something similar can be seen in Pinyin. Deor (talk) 15:45, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't know if this is relevant, but fu-kuei is a possible transcription of 復歸 (fùguī, "return"), mentioned in the article Fan (Daoism), and tzu is a common transcription (as in Lao Tzu) of 子. Another candidate for the first two bits is 富貴 (fùguì, "wealthy, respectable, splendid"). Yet another possibility: 福貴 (fúguì), seen in some names. --Lambiam 11:27, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. But I still can't find it. The source was written by an academic, so I assume the texts he quotes are unreleased and sitting at a university. Or just in book form still and not converted to digital. GoutComplex (talk) 13:07, 24 January 2023 (UTC)