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Author : D. M. Kenyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0984016724
Madison Albright realizes the shallowness of her gossipy school life when she begins to study with Rinchen, a teacher of martial arts and Tibetan meditation at the Byakuren (White Lotus) Dojo.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Mahayana Buddhism
ISBN : 023114895X
Originally published in 1976, Leon Hurvitz's monumental translation of the Lotus Sutra is the work scholars have preferred for decades. Hailed by critics as an "extraordinary" and "magnificent" achievement, Hurvitz's translation is based on the best known Chinese version of the text and includes passages of the original Sanskrit that were omitted from the Chinese. Beloved for its mythology and literary artistry, the Lotus Sutra is one of the most popular and influential texts of Mahayana Buddhism, asserting that there is only one path to enlightenment, the bodhisattva path, and that all followers without exception can achieve supreme awakening. The text argues that the Buddha cannot be delimited by time and space and that a common intent underlies the diversity of Buddhist teachings. Through parables of the burning house, the wayward son, and other tales that have come to be known throughout East Asia, the sutra skillfully concretizes abstract religious concepts and clarifies bold claims about the Buddhist tradition. Urging devotees to revivify doctrine through recitation and interpretation, the sutra powered an organic process of remaking that not only kept its content alive in the poetry and art of premodern Asia but also introduced new forms of practice and scriptural study into contemporary Buddhism. Stephen F. Teiser's foreword addresses this vital quality of the sutra, discusses its background, and reflects on the enduring relevance of Hurvitz's critical work.
Author : Lila Lee
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781512771121
Louise Farrell was homesick. She had seen hundreds of examples of ancient architecture, mosques, and Hindu shrines. She was bone-tired and irritable, tired of the culture, the filth and poverty, the red dirt piled about everywhere, the crowds of humanity, and the odor of chapattis being baked over cow dung fires. Truth be said, she was eager to return to the clean, wide-open spaces of the Flint Hills of Kansas. Although her husband Richard had been told that no one could capture the essence of India in the written word, he had notebooks filled with his impressions of the history, the Vedic literature, the agriculture, the hundreds of dialects of the Hindi language, the political turmoil, and the warring religions of the country. How did it happen that a basketball coach and mediocre teacher of history from the Midwest wound up in India after one of the countless famines that had struck the country, this one more severe than others because of the rice crop which failed in Bengal after independence and partition? The United States sent aid to this fledgling democracy, of course. The problem was this: India could not repay its debts except in rupees. What was the United States to do with hundreds of millions of rupees that could only be spent in India, one of the poorest countries on the face of the earth? Senator Fulbright came up with the solution. The United States would send teachers to India to study and spend those rupees there. And so it was that Richard and Louise Farrell and their daughter Kitty went to India to study and to travel in order to learn about one of the oldest cultures on earth.
Author : D. M. Kenyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984016708
Author : Goldie Hawn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101205327
In this candid, insightful, and unconventional memoir, Goldie Hawn invites us to join her in an inspirational look back at the people, places, and events that have touched her. It is the spiritual journey of a heart in search of enlightenment. With her trademark effervescence, Goldie delivers a personal look at private and powerful events that carried her through life: her father’s spontaneity; her mother’s courage; and the joy of being a daughter, a sister, a parent, and a lover. She writes about her childhood dreams of becoming a ballerina. She takes us on a tour of her go-go years in 1960s New York City, the phenomenon of TV’s Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, her Oscar-winning debut in Cactus Flower and Hollywood stardom. She writes intimately about the challenges of love, anger and fear, and the importance of compassion and integrity. She speaks openly about her family, her partner Kurt Russell, her children; her faith, her curiosity for that which she doesn’t yet know, and her thirst for knowledge. Most of all, it is a trip back through a life well lived by a woman well loved.
Author : Rachel Reinert
Publisher : Get Creative 6
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1942021968
An inviting collection of lush botanical drawings to color, created in mixed-media artist Rachel Reinert's lovely and distinctive style. Reinert's fresh take on modern florals has earned her a following among private collectors and interior decorators, and Botanical Wonderland makes her aesthetic accessible to everyone. Plus, the book includes some finished, fully colored botanical paintings to inspire would-be artists to draw their own beautiful works.
Author : Sherry Garland
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152014837
A Vietnamese family is forced to flee from their homeland to escape a devastating civil war.
Author : Arthur Wiederhold
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490774220
When Lian-Huas first marriage disintegrates, she drifts from man to man until she meets a young reporter who sweeps her off her feet. Their marriage is passionate and strong at first but soon becomes a tangled web of lies, deceit, and cheating that throws Lian-Huas life into a sexual spin.
Author : Jiyu Kennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X006072051
Author : Mark Griffiths
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781446484562
The lotus is the world's most iconic flower. Galvanised by receiving seeds from a three-thousand-year-old lotus, which flowered without difficulty in an English summer, Mark Griffiths set out to track the path of this sublime plant to its home in the Lotus-Lands of Japan. The Lotus Quest unveils a stunning vision of Japan's feudal era, as Griffiths visits shrines, ruins, gardens and wild landscapes, and meets priests and archaeologists, philosophers and anthropologists, gardeners and botanists, poets and artists, and even dines on the lotus in a Tokyo café. Beautifully illustrated, intensely atmospheric and full of suspense, The Lotus Quest shows how the deep crimson of the lotus runs like a tracer dye, tracking the spread, fusion and fission of the world's great civilizations.
Author : John Stevenson,Donald Alan Wood,Philippe Truong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295991623
Vietnam created the most sophisticated ceramics in Southeast Asia. Though they borrowed from China, Vietnamese potters explored their own indigenous tastes and developed their own production techniques. Blessed with the smooth gray-white clays of the Red River Valley, they created pieces that are amazingly light and thin-walled, with skillfully painted, incised, and carved decoration. Two particularly popular decorative themes were dragons (from whom the Vietnamese believed they were descended) and lotuses (considered archetypal symbols of Buddhist purity, because the flower emerges unsullied from the mud). Through a series of judicious purchases that began in the 1970s, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, has created an extraordinary collection of Vietnamese ceramic art. Essays by three noted experts introduce the collection. John Stevenson, co-author of Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, describes the evolution of Vietnamese ceramics and the contexts in which they were produced, and analyzes their aesthetic attraction. The Museum's senior curator, Donald A. Wood, explains the rich symbolism of decorative motifs found on Vietnamese ceramics. Independent scholar Philippe Truong, of Paris and Saigon, assesses the current state of the field.
Author : Hayton Monteith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 044014907X
Author : San Liao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Chinese
ISBN : UCAL:B3832756
Author : Rev Master P T N H Jiyu-Kennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0930066316
In 1976 Rev. Master Jiu-Kennett was very ill and was told she had only a few months to live. In the face of imminent death, she went deeply into meditation to reflect on her life in preparation for death. As a result, she had a deep religious experience over several months and went on to live another twenty years doing her Buddhist practice and helping others to do the same. This book is the diary of those months.
Author : Kelly Billing,Paula Biles
Publisher : The Lotus: Know It & Grow It
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780979473203
For thousands of years lotuses have fascinated people in their religion, philosophy, food, research, and ornamental horticulture. This colorful volume explains everything needed to grow lotus (Nelumbo). The book also covers all the other intriguing aspects about the lotus and provides a complete portrait of an amazing aquatic plant. "The Lotus" is packed with beautiful full-color photographs and is compelling to read. Chapters include: botanical background, cultivation, landscape uses, lotus timeline, cultural traditions, lore, resources, and quick guide for gardeners. The book is suitable for pond owners, first time lotus growers, seasoned Nelumbo experts, and those wanting to learn more about the remarkable plant that has impacted the lives of so many around the world.