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Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region : Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language - Vol. 1

Book by George Van Driem; Brill, 2001

Subjects:

Austronesian Languages--History, Ethnology--Himalaya Mountains Region, Himalaya Mountains Region--Languages, Indo-Aryan Languages, Modern--History, Indo-European Languages--History, Tibeto-Burman Languages--History

Collections: Entire Library

...intelligence or, at least, greater social intelligence...of groom- ing. The coos. calls and vocalisations...Lan- guage is the vehicle of memes or memetic...linguistic forms are vehicles for the reproduction of...organism which was greater than the individual...
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The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Book by Stephen F. Teiser; University of Hawaii Press, 1994

Subjects:

Buddhism--China--Doctrines, Eschatology, Buddhist, Hell--Buddhism, Shih Wang Ching--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...before achieving rebirth. 8. Chinese Buddhism offered a variety of rituals to resolve the uncertainties of the forty-nine days. One...tras and regulations vinaya of the Greater Vehicle. If someone is sick, if the country is...
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The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory

Book by Matthew T. Kapstein; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Buddhism--China--Tibet--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.
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The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation and Memory

Book by Matthew T. Kapstein; Oxford University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Buddhism--China--Tibet

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing revelation of the teaching in both doctrine and myth.
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Buddhism: Its History and Literature

Book by T. W. Rhys Davids; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1896

Subjects:

Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...199 The Greater Vehicle 204 The Tantra books 207...Schopenhauer and Huxley on Buddhism 220...

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Localising the Universal: Women, Motherhood and the Appeal of Early Theravada Buddhism

Journal article by Barbara Watson Andaya; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 33, 2002

Subjects:

Motherhood--Religious aspects, Religion and sociology--History, Southeast Asia--Religious aspects, Theravada Buddhism--Social aspects, Women--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...disappearance of Buddhism. (129) In the localisation...became a prime vehicle for the transmission...encouraged to give greater attention to the religious...factor in Buddhisms easier penetration...accompanied by a greater emphasis...too, that the metaphor...languages as a vehicle for the moral...Theravada Buddhism offered continuing...
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Mercy and Punishment: Buddhism and the Death Penalty

Journal article by Leanne Fiftal Alarid, Hsiao-Ming Wang; Social Justice, Vol. 28, 2001

Subjects:

Buddhism--Moral and ethical aspects, Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects, Criminal justice, Administration of--Religious aspects, Southeast Asia--Social policy

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...1950s, Buddhism became the vehicle for excluded Sri Lankan native...assert political power over the urban elitists in power (Tambiah...political promises to promote Buddhism within politics. The constitution...today, with political power the greater of the two, despite the supposedly...
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Trade-Buddhism: Maritime Trade, Immigration, and the Buddhist Landfall in Early Japan

Journal article by Charles Holcombe; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, 1999

Subjects:

Buddhism--History, History, Ancient--Japan, International trade--7th century, Japan--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...136) In Japan, despite the leading role of the state and great families in promoting Buddhism, the popular dispersion of the religion may have been greater than we realize. And popular disregard for official regulation generally, even at the...
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Buddhism Unshackled: The Yuan 'Holy Man' Tradition and the Nation-State in the Tai World

Journal article by Paul T. Cohen; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 32, 2001

Subjects:

Evangelists--Analysis, Holy, The--Analysis, Mekong River--Religious aspects, Theravada Buddhism--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...152. (23.) Ibid., p. 133. (24.) Keyes, Buddhism and National Integration pp. 562-5. (25.) As the movement was strictly vegetarian, Khruba...1991 facilitated this revival by allowing greater religious freedom. (45.) Phra Athikan Phaisan...
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Microgenesis and Buddhism: the Concept of Momentariness

Journal article by Jason W. Brown; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 49, 1999

Subjects:

Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...wavelike process that is the vehicle by which the mental...certain schools of Buddhism. In this respect, the theory resonates with...past constitutes the greater part of every cognition...the leading idea of Buddhism, the keystone of its ontology...

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Can Buddhism Save? Finding Resonance in Incommensurability

Magazine article by Christopher A. Brown; Cross Currents, Vol. 49, Summer 1999

Subjects:

Buddhism--Analysis, Christianity and other religions--Buddhism, Religion--Philosophy, Zen Buddhism--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...monism of Brahman, as well as the notion of self. Early Buddhism stressed the transient, composite nature of reality. Suffering...Doctrine of Emptiness With the emergence of the "Great Vehicle," or Mahayana, between 100 B.C.E. and 100 C.E., the...
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The Worldliness of Buddhism

Magazine article by Donald K. Swearer; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 21, Spring 1997

Subjects:

Buddhism--Evaluation, Buddhists--Evaluation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Buddhists, who took for themselves the mantle of "Greater Vehicle," sticking their rivals with the "Lesser Vehicle" label. There are within...great schools many lesser divisions. Theravada Buddhism, with roots in the Hinayana tradition embraced...
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Asceticism and the Environment

Magazine article by Christopher Key Chapple; Cross Currents, Vol. 57, Winter 2008

Subjects:

Asceticism--Analysis, Asceticism--Environmental aspects, Buddhism--Analysis, Environmental protection--Religious aspects, Jainism--Analysis, Lamaism--Analysis, Yoga--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...utility bills, and greater destruction of natural...and oil for fuel. The "progression" from...alternative fuel vehicles. Entertainment, as...practice of Yoga a vehicle for environmental...designed to release the individual from suffering...asceticism in Jainism, Buddhism, and Yoga. All three...
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The Eighty-Eight Temples: Pilgrimages Were among the Earliest Forms of Historical Travelling, and They Remain Popular in Many Parts of the World. Alex Koller Tries Japan's Most Famous Buddhist Pilgrimage

Magazine article by Alex Koller; History Today, Vol. 57, November 2007

Subjects:

Buddhism--Social aspects, Japan--Religious aspects, Lamaism--Social aspects, Pilgrimages--History, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--History, Religion--Social aspects, Religious beliefs--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Bosatsu (668-748) are probably of greater importance to the pilgrimage, as they embody the...austerities, esoteric rituals and Buddhism. The latter is credited with...aided by my family in a support vehicle. It was a ride of 1,500km, with...
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The Sacred Art of Tibet

Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 253, December 16, 1991

Subjects:

Art, Tibetan--Exhibitions, Christian art and symbolism--Exhibitions, Christian art--Exhibitions, Christian symbolism--Exhibitions

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...between the so-called Lesser and Greater Vehicles--between the Theravada and the Mahayana...to their sufferings. The Greater Vehicle involves the mediating action of the Bodhisattva...with Mahayana teaching that Buddhism began to take on a doctrinal...

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The 800; A Birthday Celebration of 800 People Who Put Liverpool on the Map

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 28, 2007

Subjects:

Commonwealth games--Management, Coronation Street (Television program), Lennon, John--Achievements and awards, Manchester United--Management, McCartney, Paul--Achievements and awards, UEFA Cup (Soccer)--Management, United Kingdom. Royal Army Medical Corps--Management

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

The 800; A Birthday Celebration of 800 People Who Put Liverpool on the Map. Byline: By Catherine Jones David Prentice A Jacqui...1973-), singer A supermarket worker from St Helens who became the lead female singer in The Beautiful South following the departure...
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Let Us Pray This Religious Hate Bill Fails; REVIEW

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 12, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...was standing by the front of the vehicle. The other had laid out his fluorescent...the Jewish cemetery in Prestwich, Greater Manchester was desecrated. Gravestones...Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Rastafarianism, Bahaism...

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Tibetan Buddhism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Tantrayana tantra vehicle or Vajrayana vehicle of the thunderbolt. Beliefs and Practices...traditional account of its origin is that Buddhism was introduced into Tibet by a...Since the 1980s there has been greater tolerance of religious practice...

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