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Author | : Elizabeth McDougal |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2024-02-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900469174X |
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Ge bcags (Gebchak) dgon pa, founded in 1892 in Nang chen, Khams (Qinghai Province, PRC), is still active today with around 250 nuns practising intensive Vajrayāna rituals, yogas and meditation. The nuns’ knowledge goal is embodied, nonconceptual awareness, yet they spend many hours daily reading texts as part of their training. By investigating the whole context of the nuns’ lifeworld and ways of learning, this ethnography questions the role of reading in Ge bcags’ tacit knowledge tradition. At a time when Tibetan learning practices are quickly modernising, this book demonstrates a Buddhist tradition whose textual knowledge is not exactly literal, but cultivated through continuous, whole person learning.
Author | : Jostein Gaarder |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2007-03-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466804270 |
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One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a mystery, but also a complete and entertaining history of philosophy.
Author | : Edward Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1720 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Download The new world of words. [&c.]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2020-11-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004437681 |
Download Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History showcases recent scholarship, photo essays, maps, and translations about hidden lands (sbas yul) across the Himalaya, from historical and contemporary perspectives.
Author | : Robert Nares |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : English language |
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Download A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, &c. which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare, and His Contemporaries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : James Joyce |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 2024-01-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.
Author | : Woodes Rogers |
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Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1712 |
Genre | : Latin America |
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Author | : Stephanie Balkwill |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2022-03-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004510222 |
Download Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how Buddhists, their texts, material culture, ideas, and institutions legitimated rulers and defended regimes across the region. The volume also reveals a history of Buddhist writing, protest, and rebellion against the state. Contributors are Stephanie Balkwill, James A. Benn, Megan Bryson, Gregory N. Evon, Geoffrey C. Goble, Richard D. McBride II, and Jacqueline I. Stone.
Author | : Marcus Boon |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674047834 |
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This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in. In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word “copying” permeates contemporary culture, shaping discourse on issues from hip hop to digitization to gender reassignment, and is particularly crucial in legal debates concerning intellectual property and copyright. Yet as a philosophical concept, copying remains poorly understood. Working comparatively across cultures and times, Marcus Boon undertakes an examination of what this word means—historically, culturally, philosophically—and why it fills us with fear and fascination. He argues that the dominant legal-political structures that define copying today obscure much broader processes of imitation that have constituted human communities for ages and continue to shape various subcultures today. Drawing on contemporary art, music and film, the history of aesthetics, critical theory, and Buddhist philosophy and practice, In Praise of Copying seeks to show how and why copying works, what the sources of its power are, and the political stakes of renegotiating the way we value copying in the age of globalization.
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Publisher | : World Book .com |
Total Pages | : 1282 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780716602996 |
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An English language dictionary, in two volumes, that provides definitions, spellings, and pronunciations to more than 225,000 terms.