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Author | : Matthew W. King |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231555148 |
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The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms is a classic travelogue that records the Chinese monk Faxian’s journey in the early fifth century CE to Buddhist sites in Central and South Asia in search of sacred texts. In the nineteenth century, it traveled west to France, becoming in translation the first scholarly book about “Buddhist Asia,” a recent invention of Europe. This text fascinated European academic Orientalists and was avidly studied by Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. The book went on to make a return journey east: it was reintroduced to Inner Asia in an 1850s translation into Mongolian, after which it was rendered into Tibetan in 1917. Amid decades of upheaval, the text was read and reinterpreted by Siberian, Mongolian, and Tibetan scholars and Buddhist monks. Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the transnational literary, social, and political history of the circulation, translation, and interpretation of Faxian’s Record. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels, contrasting the textual and interpretative traditions of the European academy and the Inner Asian monastery. King shows how the text provided Inner Asian readers with new historical resources to make sense of their histories as well as their own times, in the process developing an Asian historiography independently of Western influence. Reconstructing this circulatory history and featuring annotated translations, In the Forest of the Blind models decolonizing methods and approaches for Buddhist studies and Asian humanities.
Author | : Faxian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Juliet Marillier |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429913460 |
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Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Jess Walter |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2012-05-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062036955 |
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“A mystery novel of profound depth.” — Booklist (starred review) “Walter is at his incisive best. . . . Hypnotically compelling." — Publishers Weekly In this fiendishly clever and darkly funny novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter explores the bonds and compromises we make as children—and the fatal errors we can make at any time in our lives. While working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry, a weary Spokane police detective, encounters a seemingly unstable but charming derelict who tells her, "I'd like to confess." But he insists on writing out his statement in longhand. In the forty-eight hours that follow, the stranger confesses to not just a crime but an entire life—spinning a wry and haunting tale of youth and adulthood, of obsession and revenge, and of two men's intertwined lives.
Author | : Rose King |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2012-11-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1479738190 |
Download Wosie the Blind Little Bunny Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ms. Rose King is an author of children books and an inspirational speaker for all ages, groups, and clubs. Ms. King's stories are based on friendly animal characters that live in the forest. Wosie her main character is a blind little bunny that was created by Ms. King to reflect some of the life experiences due to her blindness for more than 20 years. These characters are always learning the valuable meaning of reaching out to help others in need. The animals in her stories also learn how to cope with some of their own disabilities and life challenges. So come along to enjoy these heartfelt stories with Wosie the Blind Little Bunny and her best friend BoBo the Bear to many adventures, fun times, and valuable life lessons. For more information or to contact Ms. Rose King for books, schedules, or speaking appearances please go to email: [email protected], www.luvwosie.com. The content of this book is appropriate for ages 3 and above. The hardcover version of this book is only available on Xlibris website for $31.99.
Author | : Stephen Kuusisto |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2006-09-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393058921 |
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By the author of the acclaimed "Planet of the Blind" comes a memoir of blindness and listening rendered with a poet's delight. Blind since birth, Kuusisto explains the art of eavesdropping and recounts the poetic surprise that comes when we actively listen to our surroundings.
Author | : Madeleine L. Van Hecke |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-12-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1615920013 |
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Psychologist Van Hecke argues that much of what we label stupidity can better be explained as blind spots. Full of funny, poignant stories about human foibles, "Blind Spots" offers many insights for improving our social and political lives.
Author | : Selina Bunbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1862 |
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ISBN | : |
Download Tales: The recovered estate, The blind curate's child, Christmas eve in the forests of Sweden. [2 issues]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Tachiana |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 145004929X |
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Life is a journey. We often find ourselves blinded by thoughts patterns. The way rock music mixes up all that thought is the reality of our war. For most of us who stay loyal in the ways of rock and roll lifestyles, the music is alive in our blood. How many of us can admit to the animal in us before we go truthfully mental?
Author | : Eduardo Kohn |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-08-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520276108 |
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Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be humanÑand thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of EcuadorÕs Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the worldÕs most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. How Forests Think seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting directionÐone that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings.