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Sengge
Sengge (Сэнгэ хунтайж) was an Oirat leader of the Choros tribe who held the title khong tayiji, ruling from 1653 until his assassination in 1670 by his elder half-brothers.
Senggum
Senggum, also rendered Senggüm or Nilqa-Senggüm, was the son and heir of Toghrul, Ong Khan of the Kereit of central Mongolia, who opposed Temüjin and provoked the war of 1203.
Senghou
Senghou (僧侯) is a putative Chinese Buddhist monk assigned the dates 412–500 whose existence is unverified; no source names him, and he may be a scribal variant of Sengyou (僧祐).
Sengkang, Singapore
Sengkang (盛港) is a planning area and residential town in Singapore's North-East Region, developed as a new town from 1994 and home to over 267,600 residents.
Senglea
Senglea (L-Isla, Città Invicta) is a fortified Maltese city on a Grand Harbour peninsula, one of the Three Cities, founded by Grand Master Claude de la Sengle in the 1550s and unconquered in the 1565 Great Siege.
Sengmin
Sengmin (僧旻, 467–527) was a Chinese Buddhist monk at Zhuangyan Temple in Jiankang, counted with Fayun and Zhizang among the three great Dharma masters of the Liang dynasty.
Sengo bungaku
Sengo bungaku (戦後文学, "postwar literature") is the Japanese term for the literature of Japan after its 1945 defeat, a period usually dated 1945 to 1970 in literary studies.
Sengoha
Sengoha (戦後派, "postwar school") was a group of young Japanese writers who emerged after Japan's World War II defeat, seeking a literature apart from prewar realism and the I-novel.
Sengoku Basara (戦国BASARA)
Sengoku Basara (戦国BASARA) is Capcom's hack-and-slash action game series of stylized Sengoku warlords, debuting July 2005 on PS2; created by producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi and director Makoto Yamamoto, localized as Devil Kings, and expanded into anime, film, and pachislo.
Sengoku daimyo
Sengoku daimyo (戦国大名) were autonomous territorial lords who controlled one or more Japanese provinces in the century after the Ōnin War (1467–1477), until conquered by Oda Nobunaga and his successors.
Sengoku period (戦国時代)
Sengoku period (戦国時代, Sengoku jidai), Japan's Warring States era from the 1467 Ōnin War to about 1600–1615, when daimyo warlords fought for control until Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu reunified the country.
Sengqihu and Futuhu Households
Sengqihu and futuhu households were Northern Wei temple households proposed by the monk Tan Yao under Emperor Wencheng, paying grain for famine relief or serving temples.
Sengqu
Sengqu (僧璩) was a fifth-century Chinese Buddhist monk and Vinaya specialist who served the Liu Song dynasty court as an appointed Sangha rectifier, active from 453 to 464.
Sengrou
Sengrou (僧柔, 431–494) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Southern Qi dynasty, a leading exegete of the Chengshi lun at the Upper Dinglin Temple in Jiankang.
Sengrui
Sengrui (僧叡) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who served as scribe and preface-writer in the translation projects of Dao'an and Kumārajīva, and was one of the Four Sages of the Chang'an Area.
Sengsheng
Sengsheng (僧盛) is a putative Chinese Buddhist monk of the Qi–Liang transition whose existence, dates, and activity are unverified; the only near-match is a Liang-dynasty monk in the Gaoseng zhuan.
Sengshi
Sengshi (僧實, 476–563) was a Chinese Buddhist meditation master of the Northern Dynasties who served the Western Wei and Northern Zhou courts as state Tripiṭaka master.
Senguan (state monk-official) system
The senguan system (僧官制) was the Northern Wei state's hierarchy of monk-officials, begun in 398 when Emperor Taizu appointed Fa Guo to govern the Buddhist clergy.
Senguttuvan
Senguttuvan (செங்குட்டுவன்) was a Chera king of the Sangam age, remembered for defeating sea pirates on the Arabian Sea and for a legendary expedition to the Himalayas.
Sengxuan
Sengxuan (僧衒) was a Tang-dynasty Buddhist monk, reportedly 547–642, who took up chanting Amitābha's name after meeting Daochuo and is remembered for a thousand ritual bows a day at age ninety.
Sengye
Sengye (僧业) was a Chinese Vinaya master of the early fifth century who lectured on the Shisong lü in Wu, where the monk Tanbin heard him.
Sengyou
Sengyou (僧祐, 445–518) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of Jiankang who compiled the Chu sanzang jiji, the oldest surviving catalog of Buddhist writings, and decided monastic affairs for Emperor Wu of Liang.
Sengyuan
Sengyuan (僧远) was a fifth-century Chinese Buddhist monk who lived in southern China, remembered in the Gaoseng zhuan, Huijiao's Liang-dynasty collection of eminent monks' biographies.
Sengzhao
Sengzhao (僧肇, 384–414) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Eastern Jin dynasty, a disciple of the translator Kumārajīva, and author of the Zhaolun, the earliest extant Chinese Madhyamaka treatise on emptiness.
Senhance
Senhance is a robotic surgery system, originally the Italian ALF-X system, cleared by the FDA in 2017 and known for haptic feedback and reusable instruments.
Senhora
Senhora is an 1875 novel by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, in which the heiress Aurélia Camargo buys as her husband Fernando Seixas, the fiancé who abandoned her.
Seni (Viceroy of Kush)
Seni was a Viceroy of Kush of Egypt's early 18th Dynasty, heading Egypt's administration of Nubia under Thutmose I, Thutmose II, and the first years of Hatshepsut.
Seni Pramoj
Seni Pramoj (เสนีย์ ปราโมช) was a Thai aristocrat, diplomat, and prime minister who refused to deliver Thailand's 1942 declaration of war to the United States.
Seni Saowaphong
Seni Saowaphong, or Sakchai Bamrungphong, was a Thai novelist and diplomat who was a key figure in the "art for life" movement, famous for reflecting social inequality in works like Peesat.
Senicapoc
Senicapoc (ICA-17043), a Pfizer-developed Gardos channel (KCa3.1) blocker for sickle cell disease; raised hemoglobin and reduced hemolysis but failed its phase III pain-crisis endpoint; now repurposed for fibrotic lung disease, COVID-19, and Alzheimer's trials.