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Record of a Night Too Brief

Author : Hiromi Kawakami
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 180533140X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Record of a Night Too Brief written by Hiromi Kawakami and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Evocative... Astonishing, strange, and wonderful” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A trio of surreal, dazzlingly imaginative short stories set in contemporary Japan that explore desire and loss, talking animals, and odd disappearances Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, from the celebrated author of Strange Weather in Tokyo In these 3 haunting and lyrical stories, young women experience loss, loneliness, and extraordinary romance. The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun. A woman travels through an unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, monsters of the mist and a monkey who shows no mercy. A sister mourns her brother, who is visible only to her, while her family welcome his would-be wife into their home. One morning, a woman treads on a snake in the park. She comes home that evening and realises the snake has moved into her house and is saying she is her mother… Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the 3 stories in this collection: Record of a Night Too Brief Missing A Snake Stepped On reveal a highly surreal, meticulously crafted exploration of the many facets of desire, loss and fantasy. Part of Pushkin’s Japanese Novella series: stylishly designed editions of the best of contemporary Japanese fiction, featuring celebrated, prize-winning authors including Mieko Kawakami, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Fujino and Natsuko Imamura.

Kalachakra Mandala

Author : Edward Henning
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1949163334
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Kalachakra Mandala written by Edward Henning and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed, beautifully illustrated presentation of the construction and symbolism of the famed Kalachakra mandala, the crown jewel of the Indo-Tibetan tantric traditions. This volume contains an extensive analysis of the construction and symbolism of the mandala of the Kalachakra tantric system, the most intricate and explicit of the Indian Buddhist unexcelled yoga tantras, the most advanced teachings within the Indo-Tibetan tradition. Indo-Tibetan tantric traditions, particularly the unexcelled category, depend on imagery and visualization for the processes of purifying cyclic existence, and Kalachakra is the most detailed. The late scholar-practitioner Edward Henning, one of the earliest Western specialists on this material, offers this labor of love as a testament to the genius of the Tibetan tradition in preserving and transmitting these teachings over a thousand years. Well known internationally now due to the Dalai Lama’s many public initiations, the Kalachakra mandala serves as a primary focal point for meditators both new and seasoned. Henning draws primarily from the Jonang tradition of Kalachakra practice, particularly the modern master Banda Gelek, to elucidate and clarify inconsistencies across traditions and literature, including the authoritative Indian commentary Stainless Light (Vimalaprabha), regarding the construction and visualization of the three-tiered mandala with its hundreds of deities. In addition to providing detailed information on the images to be visualized, Henning provides in the final chapter a clear and extensive explanation of the symbolism of the habitat and inhabitants that are to be animated during the meditation session. An excellent companion to the translations of the Kalachakra Tantra and Stainless Light chapters co-published by the American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Wisdom Publications, this beautifully illustrated volume is a must-have for scholars and practitioners alike.

Mandala for Inner Self-Discovery

Author : Anneke Huyser
Publisher : Binkey Kok, Holland
ISBN 13 : 9789074597562
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Mandala for Inner Self-Discovery written by Anneke Huyser and published by Binkey Kok, Holland. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal mandalas protect and adorn, express your subconscious, and bring you back to your center. The theme of the mandala -- the square within the circle, containment within the infinite -- can be found in nature as well as throughout history in cultures all over the world.

Finding Meaning with Mandalas-A Therapist's Guide to Creating Mandalas with Children

Author : Tracy Turner-Bumberry LPC, RPT-S
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0996419918
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (964 download)

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Book Synopsis Finding Meaning with Mandalas-A Therapist's Guide to Creating Mandalas with Children by : Tracy Turner-Bumberry LPC, RPT-S

Download or read book Finding Meaning with Mandalas-A Therapist's Guide to Creating Mandalas with Children written by Tracy Turner-Bumberry LPC, RPT-S and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will give therapists valuable insight into the history and meaning of mandalas, as well as common shapes, colours and themes surrounding these designs. Fifty mandala interventions are included for clients to complete, as well as guidelines on when to use this intervention and how to introduce, create and process each mandala session. Mandala creations are fun, meaningful and beautiful works of art for clients of all ages.--back cover.

Japanese Mandalas

Author : Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824863119
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Mandalas written by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and the sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth- to seventeenth-century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami-worshipping (Shinto) tradition. It is generally recognized that many of these mandalas are connected with texts and images from India and the Himalayas. A pioneering theme of this study is that, in addition to the South Asian connections, certain paradigmatic Japanese mandalas reflect pre-Buddhist Chinese concepts, including geographical concepts. In convincing and lucid prose, ten Grotenhuis chronicles an intermingling of visual, doctrinal, ritual, and literary elements in these mandalas that has come to be seen as characteristic of the Japanese religious tradition as a whole. This beautifully illustrated work begins in the first millennium B.C.E. in China with an introduction to the Book of Documents and ends in present-day Japan at the sacred site of Kumano. Ten Grotenhuis focuses on the Diamond and Womb World mandalas of Esoteric Buddhist tradition, on the Taima mandala and other related mandalas from the Pure Land Buddhist tradition, and on mandalas associated with the kami-worshipping sites of Kasuga and Kumano. She identifies specific sacred places in Japan with sacred places in India and with Buddhist cosmic diagrams. Through these identifications, the realm of the buddhas is identified with the realms of the kami and of human beings, and Japanese geographical areas are identified with Buddhist sacred geography. Explaining why certain fundamental Japanese mandalas look the way they do and how certain visual forms came to embody the sacred, ten Grotenhuis presents works that show a complex mixture of Indian Buddhist elements, pre-Buddhist Chinese elements, Chinese Buddhist elements, and indigenous Japanese elements.

James Joyce’s Mandala

Author : Colm O’Shea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000617742
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book James Joyce’s Mandala written by Colm O’Shea and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sanskrit word mandala can be translated as "sacred circle." Within the circle sits a microcosm of the universe and/or consciousness, repre-sented by icons. Eastern civilizations developed the spiritual-artistic practice of creating mandalas—with sand, paint, and architecture—to high technical sophistication, making manifest a geometry with layers of esoteric meaning for both the mandala artist and the initiated spectator. James Joyce’s Mandala outlines and explains this iconic sacred geometry, and assesses to what extent Joyce’s works of literature, in particular Finnegans Wake, can be understood as mandalic constructs. Using exam-ples from Dubliners to the Wake, we see how fundamental to Joyce’s fiction is the issue of spiritual paralysis (a problem the mandala attempts to dissolve) and also how fascinated he was by geometric imagery and symmetry, the technical devices employed in mandala construction. This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce’s work with the mythic structure of the mandala. Never discounting the richness of Joyce’s genius, it uses his "collideorscape" to explore the secrets of the mandala principle as much as it uses mandala theory to illuminate his famed book of the night.

3-D Coloring Book--My First Animal Mandalas

Author : Anna Pomaska
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486481034
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book 3-D Coloring Book--My First Animal Mandalas written by Anna Pomaska and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty mandalas, decorated with animals and shapes to color and count, will delight kids as young as 5. Color according to the easy directions and create dazzling effects that will float off the page. Includes 3-D glasses!

The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism: The matrix mandala (contd.) ; The diamond world mandala ; Appendices

Author : Adrian Snodgrass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism: The matrix mandala (contd.) ; The diamond world mandala ; Appendices written by Adrian Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes

Author : Jamyang Norbu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582343284
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes written by Jamyang Norbu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "lost years" of Sherlock Holmes are revealed through the scroll of a Bengali scholar who traveled with the great detective in Asia.

Mandala Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology

Author : Archana Sharma
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030872858
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Mandala Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology written by Archana Sharma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Indian texts and Vaastupurusha Mandala are not often discussed in the western discourse on urbanism, even while much of these predate the commonly taught European writings. This book sheds light on some of those forgotten concepts, thus making the lesser discussed classic Indian town organization ideas accessible to architecture, landscape, and urban planning students worldwide. The resonance of these concepts in present times are reviewed through case studies of select Hindu temple towns in India. Furthermore, the author underscores the formal abstraction of the classic Indian Mandala and transplants the discourse from sociology to socio-ecologically adept trans-disciplinary design thinking. The creative interpretations offer a premise to start revising classic models for current practice to influence the urbanism and ecology of a place in accordance with the changing climate.

Illustrated Dictionary Of Symbols In Eastern And Western Art

Author : James Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429968485
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated Dictionary Of Symbols In Eastern And Western Art written by James Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Companion volume to James Hall’s perennial seller Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. which deals with the subject matter of Christian and Western art, the present volume includes the art of Egypt, the ancient Near East, Christian and classical Europe, India and the Far East. Flail explores the language of symbols in art showing how paintings, drawings and sculpture express man shades of meaning from simple, everyday hopes and fears to the profoundest philosophical and religious aspirations. The book explains and interprets symbols from many cultures, and over 600 illustrations clarify and complement the text. There are numbered references throughout the text to the sacred Iitcra-1 ture, myths and legends in which the symbols had their origins. Details of English translations of the works are in the bibliography. The book includes an appendix of the transcription of Chinese, notes and references, bibliography, chronological tables and index."

The Circle of Bliss

Author : John C. Huntington
Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1932476016
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book The Circle of Bliss written by John C. Huntington and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition co-organized by the Columbus Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this hefty, oversize (10x13 catalogue features approximately 160 powerful masterpieces of Indian, Nepalese, Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian art produced over the pa

Los Alamos Science

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Los Alamos Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rigveda Samhitha Volume Five --. Mandalas Seven and Eight . (From manthras 5133 to 5974)

Author : Raghavendra Narayanarao Tippur
Publisher : T.N.Raghavendra
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigveda Samhitha Volume Five --. Mandalas Seven and Eight . (From manthras 5133 to 5974) written by Raghavendra Narayanarao Tippur and published by T.N.Raghavendra. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth Volume of the Rigveda samhitha Mandala Seven (Manthras 5133 to 5974) and mandala Eight (manthras 5975 to 7112) . Rigveda can be read at random . Every hymn (manthra ) is power packed with power and pregnant with knowledge . Every manthra of the Rigveda is in praise of the Creator Lord . Oh Fire divine , may you not condemn us to indulgence ; may not these flaming fires, which nature's forces have kindled , harm us . Oh source of strength , let not your displeasure even at our fault , fall upon us . No selfishness and no self indulgence . so says the Manthra . When we are devoid of fire of awareness , we indulge in crime and sinful acts . Conscious awareness , truth and nothing but the truth is our real nature . Not following what someone says and does . Follow your heart and instincts . Mind is your slave . It is also a body organ . Soul / Atma is the king and the master . Slave cannot become the master . If the slave becomes a master , it treats everybody a a slave . Indra is the god of all gods . He is the mind , he is the soul , He is the king , He is the one who causes rain and prosperity . He is the head in different aspects . Maximum number of manthras are ascribed to Indra . Ashwins are the gods of beauty and balance . They are the gods of speed and harmony . They are the divine doctors who cure all diseases . Rudra is the god of truth and justice . He maintains perfect order in the universe from an atom to a planet and a star . Yama or Kaal is the god death , who equalises everything .

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa,: Bhishma parva

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Bhishma parva

Author : Pratāpachandra Rāya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bhishma parva written by Pratāpachandra Rāya and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

NAKO

Author : Gabriela Krist
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
ISBN 13 : 3205202678
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book NAKO written by Gabriela Krist and published by Böhlau Verlag Wien. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nako temple complex from the 12th century is an extraordinary testimony of early Tibetan Buddhism not anymore preserved in today’s Tibet. Endangered by the rough environment, improper treatment and frequent earthquakes, the outstanding monuments were re-discovered by scholars from Austrian universities in the 1980s. The transdisciplinary research project carried out over more than 20 years led to in-depth studies, preservation and model-like conservation of the temples and their artworks.