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Author | : John Hersey |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2019-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593081056 |
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Not too far from now, in a world very like our own, the oppressors have changed places with the oppressed. After their defeat in the Yellow War, the white people of America are thrust into a brutally altered reality. They are hunted like wild beasts and drive like cattle, transported in reeking ships and sold to their conquerors as field hands and house slaves. Robbed of their old names and their old language, treated with a mixture of cruelty and condescension by their Chinese masters, whites take on new identities and new strategies of survival. Some, like Nose, plunge into dissipation. Others, like Top Man, become imitation Yellows. And some, like White Lotus, rebel. In this mesmerizing book John Hersey creates an alternate history that casts a harsh radiance on our own. It has some of the stateliness of Exodus, along with the power of oral narratives of slavery. It has heroes and victims—and villains who turn out to be victims of another color. At once a masterpiece of storytelling and a complex novel of ideas, White Lotuscompels us to reexamine our notions of race and racism, freedom and oppression.
Author | : Gilad James, PhD |
Publisher | : Gilad James Mystery School |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5153452832 |
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Author | : B. J. ter Haar |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824822187 |
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"Impressive.... A scholarly tour de force, drawing upon dozens of primary sources (histories, gazetteers, canonical records, memorials, and essays) and secondary studies in Chinese, Japanese, English, and French." --Journal of Chinese Religions "A thought-provoking and revisionist study ... in Chinese popular religious history" --China Review International "Extremely well written ... well-reasoned and potentially influential" --Sacred Mountain Press, Quarterly Review, March 2004
Author | : Gilad James, PhD |
Publisher | : Gilad James Mystery School |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1858529603 |
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Author | : Yung-deh Richard Chu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jamgon Mipham |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1611802938 |
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The commentary translated in these pages is unusual and rare. But if the commentary is a rarity, its subject matter—the seven-line invocation of Padmasambhava—is one of the best-known prayers in the Tibetan Buddhist world. The overall significance of the Seven-Line Prayer is perhaps best appreciated in relation to a practice called guru-yoga, or "union with the nature of the guru." The purpose of guru-yoga is to purify and deepen the student's relationship with his or her teacher. It is introduced as one of the preliminary practices, and it remains crucial—in fact, its importance increases—as one progresses through the more advanced levels of the tantric path. The cultivation of devotion to the guru and the blending of one's mind with his or her enlightened mind is, in the words of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, "the most vital and necessary of all practices and is in itself the surest and fastest way to reach the goal of enlightenment." Regarding the origin of this commentary, Mipham refers in the colophon to an event that triggered the abrupt appearance in his mind of the hidden meaning of the prayer. It is interesting to note that the language Mipham uses suggests that the commentary itself is not an ordinary composition but perhaps a treasure teaching, specifically a "mind-treasure" or gongter.
Author | : Osho |
Publisher | : Fivestar |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2023-03-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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There have been many buddhas in the world, but Bodhidharma stands out like Everest. His way of being, living, and expressing the truth is simply his; it is incomparable. Even his own master, Gautama the Buddha, cannot be compared with Bodhidharma. Even Buddha would have found it difficult to digest this man. This man Bodhidharma traveled from India to China to spread the message of his master. Although they are separated by one thousand years, for Bodhidharma and for such men there is no time, no space – for Bodhidharma Buddha was as contemporary as Buddha is contemporary to me.
Author | : Ji Zhang |
Publisher | : Royal Collection of Imperi |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781487801748 |
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Handscroll; Ink on paper; 755cm(width)*22cm(height) The painting recounts the story of Master Huiyuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty establishing the White Lotus Society in the Donglin Temple at Mount Lu. The White Lotus Society was a social organization that originated from the doctrines of ancient Chinese religion. The teachings of the Society included paying respect to the Buddha, chanting scriptures, and pursuing the afterlife in the Buddhist Pure Land in the west. Because the white lotus serves as a symbol of the Buddhist Nirvana, and there is a lotus pond at the Donglin Temple, the society was named for the white lotus growing there. In painting the figures, Zhang adopted the classical line drawing style, which produced lively images. In painting the rocks, he first outlined the basic composition with ink then applied texture strokes, reflecting a perfect balance between dark and light and presenting the depth of the gorge, the serenity of the path, and the steepness of the rocks. In painting the trees, he used thick brushes for the trunks and thin brushes for the branches and leaves, in a style known as "falcon talons." By applying such techniques, the trees are rendered vigorous yet graceful.
Author | : Barend ter Haar |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2021-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004488065 |
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This book provides a new hypothesis for understanding the real nature of the term White Lotus Teachings. The author argues that there are actually two different phenomena covered by similar terms: from c. 1130 until 1400, a real lay Buddhist movement existed, which can be called the White Lotus movement. It enjoyed the respect of contemporary literati and religious elites. The movement used the autonym White Lotus Society, which came to be prohibited in the early Ming and was discarded as a result. After 1525, the name reappeared in the form White Lotus Teachings, but now only as a derogatory label, used by officials and literati rather than by believers themselves. As a result of this hypothesis, the history of the "White Lotus Teachings" changes from one of religious groups and magicians into one of elite ideology and religious persecution. The book is therefore important both for historians and anthropologists of Chinese religion and society, and for comparative historians interested in the ideological and social construction of "heterodoxy".
Author | : Yung-deh Richard Chu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Bailian (Sect) |
ISBN | : |
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