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A Monk's Affairs

Author : Jane
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503531120
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Monk's Affairs written by Jane and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains two stories: A Monks Affairs and Two Predestined Flesh Relationships. A Monk's Affairs tells a story that happened in the Yuan Dynasty in China, which was nearly seven hundred years ago. A Taoist witch gave a retired officials wife a monk made from wick, who could be as small as ten centimeters and as big as or taller than two meters. He seduced the wife and had sex with her a lot. He also seduced the wifes slave girl, Nuan Yu, and had sex with her a lot. And he seduced the retired officials daughter, Chang Gu, and had sex with her a lot as well, who was his wife by the first marriage five hundred years ago. He declared that he would take Chang Gu away with him two years later. Nuan Yu had sex with Chang Gus husband in Chang Gus current life and gave birth to a son. Chang Gu was caught by her husband when she was having sex with the monk. Her husband became angry and divorced her. Finally Chang Gu died from too much sex with the monk. The monk took Chang Gus spirit away with him after she died, which happened just two years after his declaration. The witchs daughter came to seduce the retired official and Chang Gus husband as well. They had a lot of sex together. Finally the retired official was shocked to death by the monk. Nuan Yu stole a lot of money and ran away with a slave boy, her son, abandoned. The widow began to have sex with a young Taoist priest and finally married him. The story has a lot of detailed descriptions of sex and propagates the idea of karma as well. Two Predestined Flesh Relationships tells a story that happened in a dynasty that was later than the Yuan Dynasty in China. A rich man, Fengs wife, Liu, was grabbed away from his home by a richer man, Bian. Liu didn't commit suicide because she was pregnant with Fengs child. Later, Bian was killed by one of his slaves when he was having sex with the slaves wife. Liu and Feng reunited and inherited all Bians money and led a happy life with their son after Bians death. Like A Monks Affairs, this story also propagates the idea of karma.

Zen Catholicism

Author : Aelred Graham
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852442722
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Zen Catholicism written by Aelred Graham and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's reflection upon Zen Buddhism and Catholicism has shown many points of contact between them, in spite of their divergent rituals and philosophies. Although he warns against the weaknesses of Zen, he urges Westerners in general, and Catholics in particular, to draw from its strengths, suggesting that the harmony Zen points to at the heart of religion could bring the West freedom from unnecessary anxiety and a new awareness of the peace of God.

A Monk Swimming

Author : Malachy McCourt
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504093445
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Monk Swimming written by Malachy McCourt and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “irresistible memoir that’s equal parts pathos and belly laughs,” the Irish American writer and actor shares stories from his first decade in the US (People). Malachy McCourt left behind a childhood of poverty and painful memories of his father and mother in Limerick, Ireland, when he followed his brother, Frank, to America in 1952. In A Monk Swimming, McCourt recounts the decade that followed. With not much to his name other than his sharp wit and knack for storytelling, McCourt was unsure what he would do after arriving in New York City. He worked as a longshoreman on the Brooklyn docks, became the first celebrity bartender in a Manhattan saloon, performed on stage with the Irish Players, and told tales to Jack Paar on The Tonight Show. Although McCourt gained success, money, women, and, eventually, children of his own, he still carried memories of the past with him. So, he fled again. He found himself in the Manhattan Detention Complex, otherwise known as the Tombs. He was arrested several times: poolside in Beverly Hills, in Zurich with gold-smugglers, and again in Calcutta with sex workers. McCourt’s journey also took him to Paris, Rome, and even Limerick again, until finally he was forced to grapple with his past. “[A] funny, oddly winning book.” —The New York Times “A rollicking good read that, as the Irish say, would make a dead man laugh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “A triumphant tale. . . . You will find yourself laughing through the tears.” —Newsday “Howlingly funny.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Build[s] on the story of the McCourts’ early life so dazzlingly told in Angela’s Ashes by his brother Frank.” —Thomas Keneally, author of the international bestseller Schindler’s List

Lessons from the Monk I Married

Author : Katherine Jenkins
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 158005451X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from the Monk I Married written by Katherine Jenkins and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons from the Monk I Married offers up ten of the most powerful lessons about life, love, and spirituality that Katherine Jenkins has gathered during her marriage to former Buddhist monk Seong Yoon Lee. A seeker in the truest sense of the word, Jenkins went to Korea on a whim, hoping to find the answers to her deepest, most pressing questions about how to find peace and her purpose in life. During her first months there, she sought out a remote temple, where she unknowingly crossed paths with an unassuming Buddhist monk. Months later, they met again by chance—and fell in love. Though their courtship was long, mostly secretive, and fraught with logistical and spiritual considerations, Jenkins and Lee were ultimately married in Korea in 2003. Through their relationship, Jenkins discovered the most important lesson of all: No one holds the keys to peace and happiness—you have walk your own path and find your own wisdom through your own experiences. More than the improbable story of a girl from Seattle who found peace of mind (and love) with a Buddhist monk, Lessons from the Monk I Married is an approachable guide to the most elemental spiritual questions of our day.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians

Author : Rupert Hughes
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Love Affairs of Great Musicians written by Rupert Hughes and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the very first books on the subject that features, among other interesting love stories, a revelation of the exact identity of Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved"; the letters of Liszt to his princess; letters of Chopin long supposed to have been burned, as well as diaries and letters gathered by an intimate friend for a biography whose completion was prevented by death; the publication of a vast amount of Wagneriana; the appearance of a full life of Tschaikovski by his brother, with complete elucidation of much that had been suppressed; a detailed account of the whole progress of Clara Schumann's beautiful love story, down to the day of the marriage; and numberless fugitive paragraphs throwing new light on affairs more or less unknown or misunderstood. Volume 1: The Overture The Ancients The Men of Flanders Orland Di Lassus and His Regina Henry and Frances Purcell The Strange Adventures of Stradella Giovanni and Lucrezia Palestrina Bach, the Patriarch Papa and Mamma Haydn The Magnificent Bachelor Gluck the Domestic, Rousseau the Confessor, and the Amiable Piccinni A Few Tunesters of France and Italy – Peri, Monteverde, et al. Mozart Beethoven: the Great Bumblebee Von Weber – the Rake Reformed The Felicities of Mendelssohn The Nocturnes of Chopin Volume 2: Franz Liszt Richard Wagner Tschaikovski, the Woman-Dreader The Heart of a Violinist An Omnibus Chapter Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck Musicians as Lovers

The Monks of Tibhirine

Author : John Kiser
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312302948
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Monks of Tibhirine written by John Kiser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the true story of seven monks kidnapped from a Trappist monastery in war-torn Algeria to be used as negotiation tools to free imprisoned terrorists and whose severed heads were found in a tree two months later.

Cold War Monks

Author : Eugene Ford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218567
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Monks written by Eugene Ford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: The Buddhist World and the United States at the Onset of the Cold War, 1941-1954 -- Two: Washington Formulates a Buddhist Policy, 1954-1957 -- Three: Thailand and the International Buddhist Arena, 1956-1962 -- Four: Reforming the Monks: The Cold War and Clerical Education in Thailand and Laos, 1954-1961 -- Five: Thailand and the International Response to the 1963 Buddhist Crisis in South Vietnam -- Six: Enforcing the Code: South Vietnam's "Struggle Movement" and the Limits of Thai Buddhist Conservatism -- Seven: Thailand's Buddhist Hierarchy Confronts Its Challengers, 1967-1975 -- Eight: The Rage of Thai Buddhism, 1975-1980 -- Conclusion: From Byoto to Kittivudho -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

The Domenichino Affair

Author : Elizabeth Cropper
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300109146
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Domenichino Affair written by Elizabeth Cropper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after completing his work The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, Bolognese painter Domenichino was accused by his rival Giovanni Lanfranco of stealing the idea for the painting from an altarpiece crafted by Lanfranco’s teacher, Agostino Carracci. The resulting scandal reverberated through the centuries, drawing responses by artists and critics from Poussin and Malvasia to Fuseli and Delacroix.Why was Domenichino attacked in this way when other related paintings--including Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin and Perugino’s painting of the same subject--aroused no such negative response? In this fast-paced book, Elizabeth Cropper investigates the Domenichino affair and addresses the perennial debate regarding the precise nature of originality and of imitation. She offers close readings of the paintings involved in the story, detailed analysis of attitudes toward imitation, emulation, and plagiarism, and a fascinating discussion of what Domenichino’s plight signifies in art history.

Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement

Author : Ingrid Jordt
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0896804577
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement written by Ingrid Jordt and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power describes a transformation in Buddhist practice in contemporary Burma. This revitalization movement has had real consequences for how the oppressive military junta, in power since the early 1960s, governs the country. Drawing on more than ten years of extensive fieldwork in Burma, Ingrid Jordt explains how vipassanā meditation has brought about a change of worldview for millions of individuals, enabling them to think and act independently of the totalitarian regime. She addresses human rights as well as the relationship between politics and religion in a country in which neither the government nor the people clearly separates the two. Jordt explains how the movement has been successful in its challenge to the Burmese military dictatorship where democratically inspired resistance movements have failed. Jordt’s unsurpassed access to the centers of political and religious power in Burma becomes the reader’s opportunity to witness the political workings of one of the world’s most secretive and tyrannically ruled countries. Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement is a valuable contribution to Buddhist studies as well as anthropology, religious studies, and political science.

A Companion to Gregory the Great

Author : Bronwen Neil
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004257764
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Gregory the Great written by Bronwen Neil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What made Pope Gregory I “great”? If the Middle Ages had no difficulty recognizing Gregory as one of its most authoritative points of reference, modern readers have not always found this question as easy to answer. As with any great figure, however, there are two sides to Gregory – the historical and the universal. The contributors to this handbook look at Gregory’s “greatness” from both of these angles: what made Gregory stand out among his contemporaries; and what is unique about Gregory’s contribution through his many written works to the development of human thought and described human experience. Contributors include: Jane Baun, Philip Booth, Matthew Dal Santo, Scott DeGregorio, George E. Demacopoulos, Bernard Green, Ann Kuzdale, Stephen Lake, Andrew Louth, Constant J. Mews, John Moorhead, Barbara Müller, Bronwen Neil, Richard M. Pollard, Claire Renkin, Cristina Ricci, and Carole Straw.

Zen's Chinese Heritage

Author : Andy Ferguson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861716043
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Zen's Chinese Heritage written by Andy Ferguson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen's Chinese Heritage traces twenty-five generations of inlightened Buddhist teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients, and an unprecedented look into the depths of the rich cultural heritage. In this new edition with even more valuable material, Ferguson surveys generations of Zen masters, moving chronologically through successive generations of ancestral teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and starkly beautiful poetry. In addition to giving the reader the engaging sense of the "family history" of Zen, this uniquely valuable book paints a clear picture of the tradition's evolution as a religious, literary, and historical force.

Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai

Author : Paul Groner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824893298
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai written by Paul Groner and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and ordinations. Some medieval Japanese exegetes, however, were obsessively concerned with these topics as they strove to understand what it meant to be a Buddhist. This landmark collection of essays by Paul Groner, one of the leading authorities on Tendai Buddhism, examines the medieval Tendai School, which dominated Japanese Buddhism at that time, to uncover the differences in understanding and interpreting monastic precepts and ordinations. Rather than provide an unbroken narrative account—made virtually impossible due to the number of undated apocryphal texts and those lost in the numerous fires and warfare that beset Tendai temples as well as the difficulties of tracing how texts were used—Groner employs a multifaceted approach, focusing on individual monks, texts, ceremonies, exegetical problems, and institutional issues. Early chapters look at a major source of Tendai precepts, the apocryphal Brahma’s Net Sutra; the Tendai scholar Annen’s (b. 841) interpretations of the universal bodhisattva precept ordination and the historical background of his commentary on the subject; Tendai perfect-sudden precepts and the Vinaya; and the role of confession in the bodhisattva ordination. Groner goes on to discuss the Lotus Sutra, another key text for Tendai precepts, and the monk Kōen (1262–1317) and his role in developing the consecrated ordination, which is still performed today. Later essays introduce Jitsudō Ninkū’s (1307–1388) system of training by doctrinal debate and his commentary on ordinations; doctrinal discussions of killing; and Tendai discussions among several lineages on whether the precepts can be lost or violated. Many of the issues discussed in the volume—particularly how to distinguish various types of Buddhist practitioners and how to conduct ordinations—continue to preoccupy Tendai monks centuries later. The book concludes with an examination of the effects of early Tendai precepts on modern practice.

Secret of the Vajra World

Author : Reginald A. Ray
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 157062917X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Secret of the Vajra World written by Reginald A. Ray and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entrée into the world of Tantric Buddhism—a unique collection of texts, concepts, and meditation practices presented by Tibetan masters teaching in the West The “Vajra World” (vajradhatu in Sanskrit) is a realm of indestructibility, the level of reality beyond all thought and imagination, all impermanence and change, which a fully realized person knows and inhabits. Used metaphorically, “Vajra World” refers to the traditional culture of Tibet and the unique spirituality that is its secret strength. Secret of the Vajra World is the companion volume to the author’s earlier book, Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism. While that book focuses on the history, cosmology, philosophy, and practice of the more public, exoteric side of Tibetan Buddhism, this work treats its more hidden and esoteric aspects as they take shape in Vajrayana. Together, the two volumes provide a broad introduction to the major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Topics include: • The tantric view of human nature and the external world • The special role of the guru, or tantric mentor • The preliminary practices that prepare the student for full initiation • The major dimensions of Vajrayana practice, including visualizations, liturgies, and inner yogas • The tradition of the tulku, or incarnate lama • The lore surrounding the death of ordinary people and of saints • The practice of solitary retreat, the epitome of traditional Tibetan Buddhism

The Culture of Giving in Myanmar

Author : Hiroko Kawanami
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350124184
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Giving in Myanmar written by Hiroko Kawanami and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can people living in one of the poorest countries in the world be among the most charitable? In this book, Hiroko Kawanami examines the culture of giving in Myanmar, and explores the pivotal role that Buddhist monastic members occupy in creating a platform for civil society. Despite having at one time been listed as one of the poorest countries in the world in GNP terms, Myanmar has topped a global generosity list for the past four years with more than 90 percent of the population engaged in 'giving' activities. This book explores the close relationship that Buddhists share with the monastic community in Myanmar, extending observations of this relationship into an understanding of wider Buddhist cultures. It then examines how deeply the reciprocal transactions of giving and receiving in society – or interdependent living – are implicated in the Buddhist faith. The Culture of Giving in Myanmar fills a gap in research on Buddhist offerings in Myanmar, and is an important contribution to the growing field of Myanmar studies and anthropology of Buddhism.

Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth Century Asia

Author : Ian Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441167714
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth Century Asia written by Ian Harris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, a team of international scholars assess the manner in which Buddhist organizations and individuals have resisted, come to terms with, or in some cases allied themselves with the forces of war, modernity, westernization, nationalization, capitalism, communism, and ethnic conflict. By examining issues such as left-right divisions in the monastic order, the rise of organized lay movements, Buddhist social activism, as well as explicitly Buddhist inspired political activity, this book seeks to demonstrate that the emphasis on meditation and mental training is only one strand in this richly complex world historical tradition.

The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard

Author : Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard written by Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Brief History of Chinese Buddhism and Buddhist Thought

Author : Xiuping Hong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900470034X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Chinese Buddhism and Buddhist Thought written by Xiuping Hong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive but concise introduction to Chinese Buddhism and the study of Buddhism in China: their Indic roots, their Sinicization, the development and philosophies of the three central lineages, the natural exchange between Buddhist cultures and schools of thought, the foundations of Buddhist studies in China, and the chief schools and sects in Chinese Buddhism as well as their characteristics and ethos.