When a Flower Is Reborn
by Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef
Publisher : Duke University Press
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Download or Read book When a Flower Is Reborn written by Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: DIVTestimonial text by a Mapuche woman, with commentary and other ethnographic interventions by a U.S. historian./div
Dictionary of Chinese Symbols
by Wolfram Eberhard
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Download or Read book Dictionary of Chinese Symbols written by Wolfram Eberhard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: This unique and authoritative guide describes more than 400 important Chinese symbols, explaining their esoteric meanings and connections. Their use and development in Chinese literature and in Chinese customs and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and precisely. `An ideal reference book to help one learn and explore further, while simultaneously giving greater insight into many other aspects of Chinese life ... the most authoritative guide to Chinese symbolism available to the general reader today ... a well-researched, informative and entertaining guide to the treasure trove of Chinese symbols.' - South China Morning Post
Honey Flowers
by Mohammed Essaadi
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Download or Read book Honey Flowers written by Mohammed Essaadi and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: COLLECTION OF POEMS COINCIDENCES LEADING ME TO WRITE THE POEMS IN ENGLISH AND NOT IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
MODERN KEATS TYPE ODES
by Jean Elizabeth Ward, Ed.
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Download or Read book MODERN KEATS TYPE ODES written by Jean Elizabeth Ward, Ed. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis:
The Words of My Perfect Teacher
by O-rgyan-'jigs-med-chos-kyi-dbang-po (Dpal-sprul)
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
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Download or Read book The Words of My Perfect Teacher written by O-rgyan-'jigs-med-chos-kyi-dbang-po (Dpal-sprul) and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1998 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Patrul Rinpoche makes the technicalities of his subject accessible through a wealth of stories, quotations, and references to everyday life. His style of mixing broad colloquialisms, stringent irony, and poetry has all the life and atmosphere of an oral teaching. Great care has been taken by the translators to render the precise meaning of the text in English while still reflecting the vigor and insight of the original Tibetan.
Blood Sacrifice
by Dong FangBuBai
Publisher : Funstory
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Download or Read book Blood Sacrifice written by Dong FangBuBai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: I can cover the sun and the moon with my heart! The color of the mountains and rivers changed! The Heavens had no eyes, but they were able to defy the heavens and turn into a demon! The heaven and earth were moved! Blood flowed like a river, washing away the muddy water! The universe was turned upside down! Close]
Leopardi's Nymphs
by Fabio A. Camilletti
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Download or Read book Leopardi's Nymphs written by Fabio A. Camilletti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: "How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subject's most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenment's pitiless unveiling of truth. Still, in the poems written in 1828-29 between Pisa and the Marches, Leopardi manages to turn disillusion into a powerful source of inspiration, through an unprecedented balance between poetic lightness and philosophical density. The addressees of these cantos are two prematurely dead maidens bearing names of nymphs, and thus obliquely metamorphosed into the charmingly disquieting deities that in Greek lore brought knowledge and poetic speech through possession. The nymph, Camilletti argues, can be seen as the inspirational power allowing the utterance of a new kind of poetry, bridging antiquity and modernity, illusion and disenchantment, life and death. By reading Leopardi's poems in the light of Freudian psychoanalysis and of Aby Warburg's and Walter Benjamin's thought, Camilletti gives a groundbreaking interpretation of the way Leopardi negotiates the original fracture between poetry and philosophy that characterises Western culture. Fabio Camilletti is Assistant Professor in Italian at the University of Warwick."
Teaching Stories of the Buddha: The Dhammapada With Verse-By-Verse Commentary
by Roy Melvyn
Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
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Download or Read book Teaching Stories of the Buddha: The Dhammapada With Verse-By-Verse Commentary written by Roy Melvyn and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: The Dhammapada, an anthology of 423 verses, has long been recognised as one of the masterpieces of early Buddhist literature. From ancient times to the present, the Dhammapada has been regarded as the most succinct expression of the Buddha's teaching found in the Theravada Pali Canon of scriptures known as the Khuddaka Nikaya ("Minor Collection") of the Sutta Pitaka. Buddhist tradition has it that shortly after the passing away of the Buddha his disciples met in council at Rajagaha for the purpose of recalling to mind the truths they had received from their beloved Teacher during the forty-five years of his ministry. Their hope was to implant the principles of his message so firmly in memory that they would become a lasting impetus to moral and spiritual conduct, for themselves, their disciples, and for all future disciples who would seek to follow in the footsteps of the Awakened One. This edition, with verse-by-verse commentary, captures the full flavor of this Buddhist classic.
Early Chinese Religion
by John Lagerwey
Publisher : BRILL
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Download or Read book Early Chinese Religion written by John Lagerwey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: After the Warring States, treated in Part One of this set, there is no more fecund era in Chinese religious and cultural history than the period of division (220-589 AD). During it, Buddhism conquered China, Daoism grew into a mature religion with independent institutions, and, together with Confucianism, these three teachings, having each won its share of state recognition and support, formed a united front against shamanism. While all four religions are covered, Buddhism and Daoism receive special attention in a series of parallel chapters on their pantheons, rituals, sacred geography, community organization, canon formation, impact on literature, and recent archaeological discoveries. This multi-disciplinary approach, without ignoring philosophical and theological issues, brings into sharp focus the social and historical matrices of Chinese religion.
Breaking Open the Box
by Nancy DaFoe
Publisher : R&L Education
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Download or Read book Breaking Open the Box written by Nancy DaFoe and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: We need a more creative approach to teaching writing. A methodology incorporating creativity, as modeled by students in this text, demonstrates the kind of progress we are all seeking, offering an exciting challenge for young writers and educators alike.
by David Adams Leeming
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Download or Read book Mythology written by David Adams Leeming and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: What makes something mythic? What do mythic events and narratives have to do with us? In Mythology, David Leeming offers an unusual and effective approach to the subject of mythology by stressing universal themes through myths of many cultures. This anthology collects a wide array of narrative texts from the Bible to English literature to interpretations by Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung, and others, which illustrate how myths serve whole societies in our universal search for meaning. Leeming illustrates the various stages or rites of passage of the mythic universal hero, from birth to childhood, through trial and quest, death, descent, rebirth, and ascension. The arrangement of texts by themes such as "Childhood, Initiation and Divine Signs," "The Descent to the Underworld," and "Resurrection and Rebirth" strip mythic characters of their many national and cultural "masks" to reveal their archetypal aspects. Real figures, including Jesus and Mohammed, are also included underlining the theory that myths are real and can be applied to real life. This edition is updated to include additional heroine myths, as well as Navajo, Indonesian, Indian, Chinese, and African tales.
The Crucifixion of Man
by George Barlow
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Download or Read book The Crucifixion of Man written by George Barlow and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis:
My Soul Beyond the Stars, My Heart Lost in Withering Flowers
by Enoca Perry
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Download or Read book My Soul Beyond the Stars, My Heart Lost in Withering Flowers written by Enoca Perry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis:
The Way to Buddhahood
by Yin-shun
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Download or Read book The Way to Buddhahood written by Yin-shun and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: The Way to Buddhahood is a compendium of two thousand years of Chinese practice in assimilating and understanding the Buddhist experience of enlightenment. It is the first in-depth explanation of Chinese Buddhism by Yin-shun, the greatest living master of the Chinese scholar-monk tradition. The master's broad scope not only includes the traditional Chinese experience but also ideas from the Tibetan monastic tradition. This is one of those rare classic books that authentically captures an entire Buddhist tradition between its covers.
The 30 Trials of Ix and the Angels
by Mark Durant
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Download or Read book The 30 Trials of Ix and the Angels written by Mark Durant and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: The 30 Trials of Ix and the Angels follows Ix Pantheos from his awakening in a ruined castle through his travels to the moon, the sun, and beyond, carried along by the songs of thirty angels as they initiate him into the mysteries of consciousness and the nature of existence. The answer seemingly found and the journey apparently nearing its end, Ix then finds that he must suffer the destruction of his former self, and face a new struggle to hold onto all that was revealed to him. Born of a series of meditations performed by the author, and utilizing an eclectic mix of various world religious and occult philosophies, the story is a surreal journey into the depths of the mind, echoing Ix's own quest to redeem both himself and mankind. While it stands alone as an engaging read for those unacquainted with the various schools of inquiry that comprise the fertile field within which it took root, it retains that symbolism which may prove insightful to like-minded readers who find themselves treading its obscure paths.
Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
by Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
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Download or Read book Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector's books, her crônicas—short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces—are the delicious canapés The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when they don't. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I know: it happens to me too. The crônica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers (or even soccer stars) to address a wide readership on any theme they like. Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector's pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio's leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories. Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love. This new, large, and beautifully translated volume, Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas presents a new aspect of the great writer—at once off the cuff and spot on.
Hong Kong Cinema
by Stephen Teo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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Download or Read book Hong Kong Cinema written by Stephen Teo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: This is the first full-length English-language study of one of the world's most exciting and innovative cinemas. Covering a period from 1909 to 'the end of Hong Kong cinema' in the present day, this book features information about the films, the studios, the personalities and the contexts that have shaped a cinema famous for its energy and style. It includes studies of the films of King Hu, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, as well as those of John Woo and the directors of the various 'New Waves'. Stephen Teo explores this cinema from both Western and Chinese perspectives and encompasses genres ranging from melodrama to martial arts, 'kung fu', fantasy and horror movies, as well as the international art-house successes.
Kingdom (Tiber City, #1)
All Over But the Shoutin'
Debriefing the Dead (Book 1 of The Dead Series)
Concealed Refuge (Windor, #1)
Isän nimeen
The Deadly Caress
A Morning for Flamingos (Dave Robicheaux #4)
Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission
The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)
Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?
Äldreomsorgen i övre Kågedalen
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Behind the Bedroom Wall
So Long, Lollipops (Until the End of the World, #1.5)