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876 Index
Ranking system, continued
and China, 445
and Filipino martial arts, 433
and Japan, 445–447
and jiu-jitsu, 52, 55
and jûdô, 214–215, 445–446, 822
and Kajukenbo, 221
and kendô, 253–254
and koryû bugei, 303–304, 445
and Muay Thai, 351–352
and sambo, 512–513
and savate, 522, 523–524
and Vovinam/Viet Vo Dao, 656
and wrestling and grappling: China,
708
and wrestling, Mongolian, 345
See also Grading system; Rank
Rao, Tukoji, III, 89
Rapa Nui. See Easter Island
Rape of Nanking, 483
Rapiers, 113–114, 582, 583–585, 804
and masters of defence, 322–323
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, 725
Ratchadamnoen Stadium, 350
Raymond of Toulouse, Count, 452
Record of Rituals, 706
Record of Wrestling, 706
Red Eyebrow Rebellion, 665
Red Guard, 42
Red Junk, 131
“Red Junk People,” 782
Red Sash Society, 438–439
Red Sun, 153
Red Turban uprising, 459
Regiment of Dragoons, 672
Religion
and Africa, 7
and orders of knighthood. See
Orders of knighthood, religious
and quanfa, 813
secular academic approaches to,
474
and silat, 529
and social uses of the martial arts,
532
and swordsmanship, Japanese, 589,
595
Religion and spiritual development:
Ancient Mediterranean and
medieval West, 447–455
and Christianity, 448–450
and the Crusades, 451–453
and early Middle Ages, 450–451
and Greco-Roman period, 447–448
and Greece, ancient, 447–448
and high Middle Ages, 453–454
and late antiquity, 448–450
See also Chivalry; Knights; Orders
of knighthood, religious; Orders
of knighthood, secular
Religion and spiritual development:
China, 455–462
and Buddhism, 456–460
See also Boxing, Chinese; Boxing,
Chinese Shaolin; China;
Medicine, traditional Chinese;
Meditation; Written texts: China
Religion and spiritual development:
India, 462–471. See also
India; Kalarippayattu;
Meditation; Thang-ta; Varma ati;
Wrestling and grappling: India;
Written texts: India
Religion and spiritual development:
Japan, 472–501. See also Aikidô;
Budô, bujutsu, and bugei;
Form/xing/kata/pattern practice;
Kendô; Ki/qi; Koryû bugei;
Swordsmanship, Japanese;
Warrior monks, Japanese/sôhei;
Written texts: Japan
Religious orders, 369–370. See also
Orders of knighthood, religious
Renaissance Fairs, 419
Renat, Laishev, 513
Renga, 197
Republic of Korea (ROK), 297
Republic of Korea Haedong Kumdô
Federation, 600
Republican Revolution, 41
Reputation
and social uses of the martial arts,
533–534
Requiem for a Heavyweight, 742
Researches into the History of Early
Mankind (Tylor), 821
Restored behavior, 419
Retan Gôshin Karate-jutsu
(Strengthening of Willpower and
Self-Defense through Karate
Techniques), 234
Retiarius, 142–144, 145, 146
Revolution of 1911, 460
and boxing, Chinese, 30
Revolutionary War, 674
Revolvers, 819
Rhee Seung Man, 827
Ribat, 368
Ricarte, General, 429
Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted),
78, 81, 797
Rig Veda, 230
Righteous and Harmonious Fists, 41
Rikidozan, 741