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Biography of Yogi Roth
Author : KMD Publishing
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780615348070
Biography of Yogi Roth
Author : Andrew Quintman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231535538
Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052–1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and its innovations in narrative and aesthetic representation across four centuries, culminating in a detailed analysis of the genre's most famous example, composed in 1488 by Tsangnyön Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.
Author : Zelda la Grange
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0147516277
“An important reminder of the lessons Madiba taught us all.”—President Bill Clinton There are numerous books about Nelson Mandela, but Good Morning, Mr. Mandela is the first by a trusted member of his inner circle. In addition to offering a rare close portrait, Zelda la Grange pays tribute to Madiba as she knew him—a teacher who gave her the most valuable lessons of her life. Growing up in apartheid South Africa, La Grange, a white Afrikaner, feared the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “a terrorist.” Yet she would become one of his most devoted associates for almost two decades. Inspiring and deeply felt, this book honors a great man’s lasting gift.
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN :
Includes "Dilatory domiciles"; for some volumes, some of these updates are issued separately as supplements.
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Page : 2016 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Ship registers
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Author : Fay-Cooper Cole
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Samten Karmay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9047419782
The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen in Tibetan) is a philosophical and meditative teaching. Its inception is attributed to Vairocana, one of the first seven Tibetan Buddhist monks ordained at Samye in the eight century A.D. The doctrine is regarded among Buddhists as the core of the teachings adhered to by the Nyingmapa school whilst similarly it is held to be the fundamental teaching among the Bonpos, the non-Buddhist school in Tibet. After a historical introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and the Bon, the author deals with the legends of Vairocana (Part I), analysing early documents containing essential elements of the doctrine and comparing them with the Ch'an tradition. He goes on to explore in detail the development of the doctrine in the tenth and eleventh centuries A.D. (Part II). The Tantric doctrines that play an important role are dealt with, as are the rDzogs chen theories in relation to the other major Buddhist doctrines. Different trends in the rDzogs chen tradition are described in Part III. The author has drawn his sources mainly from early unpublished documents which throw light on the origins and development, at the same time also using a variety of sources which enabled him to explicate the crucial position which the doctrine occupies in Tibetan religions.
Author : Joseph Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Medicine
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Author : Greta Van Buylaere
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9004416250
Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia.
Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
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Page : 972 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Telecommunication
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