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Silla's Awakening

Author : J.M. Durham
Publisher : Histria Books
ISBN 13 : 1592114466
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Silla's Awakening written by J.M. Durham and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TALE OF GOOD VS EVIL UNLIKE ANY OTHERTraverse through Arrdus with Silla, Omega, and company on an adventure rife with hardships, hope, despair, love, and magic. Can Silla, a seemingly normal woman in her early twenties, take on her predestined role of Goddess, and survive? Can Silla locate and protect the precious, powerful items of her predecessors?Many opposing forces exist; The Faithful, most fervent followers of the seven gods and goddesses have for millennia crusaded against the Goddess reincarnations. Though they are vast in number and influence, perhaps they pale in comparison to another of Silla' s future foes: Faulk, far to the northeast in his walled-in nation has been putting into motion plans of catastrophic evil that will test both Silla and Omega in more ways than they yet know. There are many characters worth falling in love with, but it is impossible to say who will survive and who will perish.

Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment

Author : Sung-bae Park
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873956734
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment written by Sung-bae Park and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment explains how sudden enlightenment occurs through the awakening of patriarchal faith. This is the non-dual affirmation that one is already Buddha as opposed to the doctrinal, dualistic faith that one can become Buddha. The essence of the presentation is that patriarchal faith forms the basis for sudden enlightenment in Zen meditation. For the practitioner, this book establishes the Zen method of mind-cultivation on a higher level by introducing a new understanding of awakening right faith. Included is extensive material on the history of faith in Buddhism with the main attention devoted to Ch'an (Zen) and Hua-yen. There are also substantial discussions of Buddhist antecedents to these schools and of the Pure Land School. This is the first book in English to examine the central role of faith in Mahayana Buddhism. The author's approach develops from his personal experiences as a son (Zen) monk of the Chogye order, which was heavily influenced by the integration of meditation and scriptural study established by Chinul.

The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393059758
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade written by Susan Wise Bauer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the period between the 4th and 12th centuries, when religion became the justification for political and military action, a time that included the development of Islam, the crowning of Charlemagne, and the rise of the T'ang Dynasty.

China Awakened

Author : Min-chʻien Tuk Zung Tyau
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book China Awakened written by Min-chʻien Tuk Zung Tyau and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1922 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Silla Project

Author : John C. Brewer
Publisher : PlotForge, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1937979075
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book The Silla Project written by John C. Brewer and published by PlotForge, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentenced to a crime he didn't commit, American scientist Mitch Weatherby is relieved when mysterious commandos rescue him from a life in prison. Little does his know that his saviors work for a maniacal dictator with plans to build nuclear weapons that will irrevocably alter the world's balance of power. "Brewer has a singular gift as a storyteller," says Midwest Book Review, calling The Silla Project, "riveting entertainment from first page to last."

Womanbeing and Womanself

Author : Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450265219
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Womanbeing and Womanself written by Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the twin concepts, Womanbeing and Womanself. Using novels written by black women in the U.S., Africa and the Caribbean, the book illustrates how the characters live out their lives either in a state of womanbeing or in a state of womanself or both. To illustrate the twin concepts, the author draws from a work by Jean Paul Satre, titled Being and Nothingness. The author also theorizes on the origin of inequalities between men and women and how that led to the dominance of men over women. The author also claims that women perpetuate the surbordinate position of women unwittingly accepting the assertion by men that women are weak and need the guidance and protection of men.

The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea

Author : Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887038
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea written by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism. The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra was traditionally assumed to have been translated from Sanskrit, but some modern scholars, principally in Japan, have proposed that it is instead an indigenous Chinese composition. In contrast to both of these views, Robert Buswell maintains it was written in Korea around A.D. 685 by a Korean adept affiliated with the East Mountain school of the nascent Chinese Ch'an tradition. He thus considers it to be the oldest work of Korean Ch'an (or Son, which in Japan became known as the Zen school), and the second-oldest work of the sinitic Ch'an tradition as a whole. Buswell makes his case for the scripture's dating, authorship, and provenance by placing the sutra in the context of Buddhist doctrinal writings and early Ch'an literature in China and Korea. This approach leads him to an extensive analysis of the origins of Ch'an ideology in both countries and of the principal trends in the sinicization of Buddhism. Buddhism has typically been studied in terms of independent national traditions, but Buswell maintains that the history of religion in China, Korea, and Japan should be treated as a whole. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Korean Thought and Culture

Author : Chai-Shin Yu
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426944969
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Korean Thought and Culture written by Chai-Shin Yu and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During its five thousand years of history and culture, Korea has been attacked and invaded by other countries eight hundred times. Despite all its past tragedies, Korea has risen from the ashes and become one of the ten strongest economic countries in the world-all because its people have kept their thoughts, culture, and roots alive. In Korean Thought and Culture: A New Introduction, Dr. Chai-Shin Yu shares the results of his extensive research. He offers careful interpretation of historical facts and in-depth exploration of past events, while determining whether Old-Korean thought culture has always existed independently or arose initially through the sole influence of China. A seasoned lecturer on Korean culture and thought, Dr. Yu relies on his professional experience to provide a comprehensive study of Korean and East Asian thought and culture, the influence of Korea on Japanese culture, Korean philosophers, and other Asian and Christian thoughts and cultures. One hundred years since the Japanese invasion and sixty years after the attack of North Korea, Korean Thought and Culture: A New Introduction offers a new perspective on long-held beliefs and challenges anyone to take a new look at Korean thought and the history and culture of this fascinating country.

Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea

Author : Lewis R. Lancaster
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895818892
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea written by Lewis R. Lancaster and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the unified Silla dynasty period (669-935AD) that followed the Three Kingdom period, Buddhism was being assimilated into the Korean culture and taking on certain aspects not borrowed from China. Buddhist specialists will be interested in the ways in which the various schools were being adapted in this time period.

Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824867424
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark written by and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual—that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a sequential series of practices. This “sudden/gradual issue” was one of the crucial debates that helped forge the Zen school in East Asia, and the Korean Zen master Chinul’s (1158–1210) magnum opus, Excerpts, offers one of the most thorough treatments of it in all of premodern Buddhist literature. According to Chinul’s analysis, enlightenment is both sudden and gradual. Zen practice must begin with a sudden awakening to the “numinous awareness”—the “sentience,” or buddha-nature—that is inherent in all “sentient” beings. Such an awareness does not need to be developed but must simply be recognized (or better “re-cognized”), through the unmediated experience of insight. Even after this initial awakening, however, deeply engrained proclivities of thought and conduct may continue to disturb the practitioner; these can only be removed gradually as his or her practice matures. Chinul’s “sudden awakening/gradual cultivation” soteriology became emblematic of the Buddhist tradition in Korea. Excerpts, translated here in its entirety by the preeminent Western specialist in the Korean Buddhist tradition, goes on to examine Chinul’s treatments of many of the quintessential practices of Zen Buddhism, including nonconceptualization, or no-thought, and the concurrent development of meditation and wisdom, as well as, for the first time in Korean Zen, “examining meditative topics” (kanhwa Sŏn)—what we in the West know better as kōans, after its later Japanese analogues. Fitting this new technique into his preferred soteriological schema of sudden awakening/gradual cultivation was no simple task for Chinul. Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark offers an extensive study of the contours of the sudden/gradual debate in Buddhist thought and practice and traces the influence of Chinul’s analysis of this issue throughout the history of the Korean tradition. Copiously annotated, the work contains extensive selections from the two traditional Korean commentaries to the text. In Buswell’s treatment, Chinul’s Excerpts emerges as the single most influential work written by a Korean Buddhist author.

The Opera Lover's Companion

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300123739
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book The Opera Lover's Companion written by Charles Osborne and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a well-known authority, this book consists of 175 entries that set some of the most popular operas within the context of their composer's career, outline the plot, discuss the music, and more.

Jazz Times

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Puma in the Tree

Author : J. K. Mactavish
Publisher : J. K. Mactavish
ISBN 13 : 1311840494
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book A Puma in the Tree written by J. K. Mactavish and published by J. K. Mactavish. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Eh-em is a cautious thirty year old plagued by reticence and life-world trivia. Noticing a mountain lion cub watching him from a tree, he takes inspiration and records his experiences of starting over in a rural California town. His writing and those he befriends figure in his transition and integration of his separated selves. But his story reaches beyond connecting meaningfully with people and finding the best-fit match for him. He must become resolute in working through his own sexual orientation and grief lite. He must also navigate through a maze of frustrated plans, decisions about career and calling, inaccurate first impressions, feelings of emptiness, errors in judgment, troubling memories, mistakes and inadequacies, philosophical quibbles, and admirable yet formidable people and situations that challenge him. His story is a meta-fiction of identity formation animated by feminine energies, totemic mascots, and diverse and developing characters. All this and much, much more is his journey to a conclusion. Or is it a precarious beginning?

Reflecting Mirrors

Author : Imre Hamar
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447055093
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Reflecting Mirrors written by Imre Hamar and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the Huayan school of East Asian Buddhism in a Western language. This school, which received its name from the Chinese translation of the important Mahayana scripture, the Buddhavatam sakasutra, flourished in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907) and spread to Korea and Japan as well. The reader gains an insight into the development of Huayan Buddhism: The compilation of its base text, the Buddhavatam sakasutra, the establishment of Huayan tradition as a special form of East Asian Buddhism and its visual representations. The book consists of five chapters: 1. State of Field, 2. The Buddhavatam. sakasutra, 3. Huayan in China, 4. Hwaom/Kegon in Korea and Japan, and 5. Huayan/Hwaom/Kegon Art. The following scholars contributed to this volume: Aramaki Noritoshi, Jana Benicka, Choe Yeonshik, Bernard Faure, Frederic Girard, Imre Hamar, Huang Yi-hsun, Ishii Kosei, Kimura Kiyotaka, Charles Muller, Jan Nattier, Otake Susumu, Joerg Plassen, Wei Daoru, Dorothy Wong, Zhu Qingzhi. Included are bibliographies of secondary sources on Huayan Buddhism in Western languages, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

Sources of Korean Tradition

Author : Jennifer Crewe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515313
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Sources of Korean Tradition written by Jennifer Crewe and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-21 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume I, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from ancient times through the sixteenth century. Sources of Korean Tradition is arranged according to the major epochs of Korean history, including sections on: Korean culture - its origins, writing, education, poetry, song, social life, and rituals; religion - the rise of Buddhism and Confucianism; the economy - the land, agriculture, commerce, and currency; and its changing political structures. A superb collection by the foremost scholars in the field, Sources of Korean Tradition is supplemented by a bibliography and prefaces by both editors. An impressive storehouse for the grand corpus of thought, beliefs, and customs held by people of Korea for centuries, this volume is a valuable companion for those interested in the history of Korea and East Asian studies.

Sources of Korean Tradition: From early times through the sixteenth century

Author : Peter H. Lee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231105668
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Sources of Korean Tradition: From early times through the sixteenth century written by Peter H. Lee and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Buddhist Spirituality

Author : Takeuchi Yoshinori
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120819443
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Spirituality written by Takeuchi Yoshinori and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2003 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great religions, it is Buddhism that has focused most intensively on that aspects of religion that we call spirituality. No religion has ste a higher value on states of spiritual insight and liberation, and none has set forth so methodologically and with such a wealth of reflection the various paths and with such a wealth of reflection the various paths and disciplines by which such states are reached. The aim of the volumes on Buddhism is to survey the entire tradition both chronologically and geographically in the varieties of its historical forms and in the great diversity of its teachings.