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Author : Richard S. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231156691
This is an English translation of the Splendid Vision sutra, a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture.
Author : William MacLeod Raine
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664614100
"The Vision Splendid" by William MacLeod Raine is a political drama that shows how, just because you share blood with someone, it doesn't mean you'll always see eye to eye and land on the same side of things. The book follows two cousins who fail to see the same side of societal arguments. The political savvy in this book, though reflecting of a time decades ago, mirrors the politics of recent years.
Author : Richard S. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231527521
Featuring the first-ever English translation of the "Splendid Vision Sutra," a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its rich ritual magic and worship of bodhisattva-goddesses, this volume explicates the text's cultural significance as a source of extraordinary value, cosmic truth, and existential meaning. The ancient author of the "Splendid Vision Sutra" promises every imaginable reward to those who heed its words and rites, whether one's desire is to become king, enjoy heavenly pleasures for thousands of millennia, or attain the spiritual summit of advanced bodhisattvahood. Richard S. Cohen carefully analyzes this religious rhetoric, developing a heuristic model of "scripture" that extends beyond Buddhist literature. In his framework, a text becomes sacred scripture when a community accepts it as a receptacle of extraordinary value, an authoritative source of cosmic truth, and a guide for meaningful action. While clarifying these points, Cohen untangles the discursive skein through which the "Splendid Vision Sutra" expresses its authority, inspires readers to accept that authority, and promises superior power and accomplishments to those who implement its teachings. Exploring ways of living and reading a text, Cohen draws on Marcel Duchamp's theory of found art, Jerzy Grotowski's idealization of the holy actor, and other formulations, identifying contingencies, uncertainties, and incompleteness in the lived present and its determination of our reception of the past. More than a mere introduction to an important work, The Splendid Vision opens a window into religious experience and practice in contemporary environments as well as in the world of the sutra.
Author : Naomi E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773591615
This history traces the ncwc's development and assesses the effectiveness of its many interventions in the political process over the past 100 years. The author shows that through the Council, women have dealt with virtually all the major social and political issues that have faced Canada.
Author : Andrew Barton Paterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0207163804
A handsomely presented collection of the poetry of one of Australia's best-known poets. All the poems that Paterson wrote are published in this one elegantly-illustrated volume.
Author : Pseud John Oxenham
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290042314
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : William M. Raine
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465539946
The broad faces of the sunflowers surveyed, with their eternal, undiscriminating smile, the nape of Horatia's white neck, and were no wiser. Her back was towards them, and they could not see what book was in her lap. But the hollyhocks further down the border were probably aware that she was not really reading anything. They swayed a little, disturbing a blundering bee; and Horatia, turning her head towards the flower-bed, glanced for a moment at those tall warriors en fête. A gust of perfume suddenly shook out at her from the border. Certainly the summer seemed hardly within sight of its end, though on this Monday, the thirtieth of August, 1830, much of the corn was cut already. Horatia's own summer was at the full, and it was now only old-fashioned people who thought the single woman of twenty-four in peril of the unblest autumn of perpetual maidenhood. For the sake of the red-gold bunches of curls at her temples, the dazzling skin that goes with such hair, the straight, wilful little nose, the mouth holding in its curves some petulance and much sweetness, an admirer might well have been sitting beside her in this agreeable old garden. Yet Horatia Grenville was not accounted a beauty. She was neither statuesque nor drooping. But part of the blame lay undeniably with the book on her lap, the Republic of Plato in the original. Horatia could and did read Greek without too much difficulty; could not, or would not, occupy her fingers for ever with embroidery or knitting, and was believed to despise amateur performance upon the harp. In short she was "blue," and therefore—at least in her own county—was not beautiful; she was learned, and could not, in Berkshire, be lovely. Yes, she was twenty-four, and unmarried; a country parson's daughter, but well-born and well-dowered; suspected (unjustly) of knowing Hebrew as well as Greek, but always admirably dressed. She had never been in love, and had never, to her knowledge, even desired to taste that condition. Nor had she discovered in herself any aptitude for flirting. She wished sometimes that she did not frighten young men by her real or supposed intellectual attainments, but not for any plaudits of the drawing-room would she have bartered all that was typified to her by the Greek text on her knee. And she had no craving for domestic bliss. Indeed, she could have had that bliss had she desired it. At least two decorous and (to her) entirely negligible requests had been made for her hand. They had come from quite suitable personages, whom she had met during her periodical sojourns with her various relations. Moreover, here, at home, five years ago, the man who had known her from a child, and was indeed a distant connection, had asked her to marry him. That episode had startled and distressed Horatia. Tristram Hungerford, six years her senior, had always been a quasi-fraternal part of her life. The boy who came over daily on his pony from Compton Parva, what time a pony was still to her as an elephant, who was construing Livy with her father while her own fingers created the tremulous pothook, who climbed the Rectory apple-trees while her infant legs bore her but precariously on terra firma—whom she welcomed home from Eton with unrestrained joy and offerings of toffee, from Oxford as frankly but less exuberantly—that this young man should suddenly propose to make her his wife was absurd, and she did not like it at all. At nineteen, Horatia Grenville had been singularly immature for her times. She had no wish but that her playmate and friend should retain that rôle always; why should he want to change it? She signified as much, and to her great relief Tristram reverted with extraordinary completeness to his former part, and had filled it for five more years.
Author : D K Broster,G W Taylor
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019583916
A classic tale of adventure and romance set in pre-World War I Australia. The story follows the lives of two young lovers, their families, and the challenges they face in pursuing their dreams. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Tom Ronan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:220377767
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112059867488
This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective. Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests that these conflicts reflect and are also a driving force for major societal change. In this sense, "Understanding Civil War: Continuity and Change in Intrastate Conflict" argues that the nature of civil war is not fundamentally changing in nature. The book includes a thorough consideration of patterns and types of intrastate conflict and debates relating to the causes, impact, and changing nature of war. A key focus is on the political and social driving forces of such conflict and its societal meanings, significance and consequences. The author also explores methodological and epistemological challenges related to studying and understanding intrastate war. A range of questions and debates are addressed. What is the current knowledge regarding the causes and nature of armed intrastate conflict? Is it possible to produce general, cross-national theories on civil war which have broad explanatory relevance? Is the concept of civil wars empirically meaningful in an era of globalization and transnational war? Has intrastate conflict fundamentally changed in nature? Are there historical patterns in different types of intrastate conflict? What are the most interesting methodological trends and debates in the study of armed intrastate conflict? How are narratives about the causes and nature of civil wars constructed around ideas such as ethnic conflict, separatist conflict and resource conflict? This book will be of much interest to students of civil wars, intrastate conflict, security studies and IR in general.
Author : William MacLeod Raine
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1978034830
The Vision Splendid By William MacLeod Raine
Author : D. K. Broster,G. W. Taylor
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 150759593X
"[...] Tristram Hungerford laughed. "All the better for us! It is dull enough without you." "O, what stories!" exclaimed Horatia. "You have not been dull. You have had Mr. Dormer with you!" There was mockery in her eyes. "I know all about it. Tell me the truth now! How long did he stay?" "A week, Horatia, only a week, and since then it has been duller than[...]".
Author : Richard Waterhouse
Publisher : Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063355211
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Author : Dorothy Kathleen Broster,G. W. Taylor
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1010567942
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : D. K. Broster,G. W. Taylor
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1378649540
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
