Author: Jamgon Kongtrul File Type: epub This translation of a fundamental Tantric text reveals the richness and profundity of the intellectual and contemplative traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. The text describes the Four Foundation Practices that all practitioners of Vajrayana Buddhism must complete. The nature of impermanence, the effects of karma, the development of an enlightened attitude, and devotion to the guru are among the subjects treated in this book. Three eminent contemporary Tibetan Buddhist mastersKalu Rinpoche, Deshung Rinpoche, and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpocheexplain the significance of *The Torch of Certainty * for modern-day students and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism.**Language NotesText English, Tibetan (translation) About the Author Jamgon Kongtrul (18131899) was a versatile and prolific scholar. He has been characterized as a Tibetan Leonardo because of his significant contributions to religion, education, medicine, and politics.

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Author: Margaret Ziolkowski File Type: epub Key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore include its frequently intensely political aspect and it preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority. These issues are dramatically displayed in Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and 1940s, the so-called noviny (new songs), which took their formal inspiration to a great extent from traditional Russian epic songs, byliny (songs of the past), and their narrative content from contemporary political and other events in Stalinist Russia. The story of the noviny is at once complex and comprehensible. While it may be tempting to interpret the excrescences of Stalinism as unique aberrations, the reality was often more complicated. The noviny were not simply the result of political fiat, an episode in an ideological vacuum. Their emergence occurred in part because of specific trends and controversies that marked European folklore collection and publication from at least the late eighteenth century on, as well as because of developments in Russian folkloristics from the mid-nineteenth century on that assumed perhaps exaggerated proportions. The demise of the noviny was equally mediated by a host of political and theoretical considerations. This study tells the story of the rise and fall of the noviny in all its cultural richness and pathos, an instructive tale of the interaction of aesthetics and ideology.

Author: Kathrin Fahlenbrach File Type: pdf This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of dissent. **Review This volume is unique in its sociological, global, and historical approach to the study of social movements. Its systematic effort at analyzing social movements in their widest social and political contexts addresses a real gap in the current literature. Insisting on a cross-disciplinary theoretical lens the volume offers novel insights and opens up new avenues for research on political protest. - Thomas Olesen, Aarhus University, editor of Power and Transnational Activism A very useful contribution to the literature on protest movements. - Gerd-Rainer Horn, University of Warwick, author of The Spirit of 68 Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976 This is a cohesive volume with a clear overarching theme. It is highly original in its overall aims and in the delivery in individual chapters. There are other edited volumes in existence which deal either wholly or in part with protest movements, but none of these previous volumes really look directly at establishment responses, so this book fills a real gap in general, and individual chapters make important contributions to particular fields such as civil rights or terrorism. - Nick Thomas, Department of History, University of Nottingham About the Author Kathrin Fahlenbrach is a professor of Media Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Martin Klimke is the co-author of the Palgrave titles 1968 in Europe and A Breath of Freedom. He is an associate professor of History at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Joachim Scharloth is a co-author of 1968 in Europe and an associate professor of German linguistics at Dokkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. Laura Wong is an associated researcher at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany, and at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University.