Pure Appearance: Development and Completion Stages in Vajrayana Practice
Author: Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche File Type: epub A complex topic is here made crystal clear through the heartfelt teaching of one of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. With Pure Appearance Dilgo Khyenste Rinpoche offers an overview of Tibetan tantric practice that explains its concepts, clarifies its terminology, and shows how its myriad pieces fit together, including an extensive teaching on the bardos, or between statesessential for those new to the topic and a source of illumination for longtime students.Vajrayana methods for realizing the true nature of the mind take the resultant state of buddhahood as the path, or what is to be practiced. Pure Appearance focuses on the generation and completion stages of tantra that work with the pure form aspect of enlightenment. In this short but densely packed teaching Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche explains the structure of the tantric path and how its stages are put into practice, in terms that apply generally across the spectrum of deity practices. He emphasizes the distinctive features of the Nyingma approach but frequently correlates them with their counterparts in the New Translation traditions.
Author: Richard Gray
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Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. ullThe most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayllCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fictionllExplores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writersllConsiders how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty yearsllSituates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and societyllOffers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readerslulReviewRichard Grays real achievement is somehow to have compressed more than 400 years of thrillingly rich literary history between two covers. (Literary Review) ReviewThis book is the first comprehensive, single volume history of American literature since The Columbia Literary History of the United States edited by Elliott Emory and published sixteen years ago. It is a puzzle, given the extraordinary interest in American literature at home and abroad, that so few full histories of American literature have been published. Consider the fact that the Columbia history arrived nearly four decades after R. E. Spillers Literary History of the United States. What makes Grays book so extraordinary is that it supercedes the Spiller and Emory texts in nearly every respect, and even challenges the supremacy of the titanic (this pun is intentional), multi-volume, still-evolving Cambridge History of American Literature. How Gray managed to so captivatingly capture the depth and breadth of so complex a literature in under a thousand pages is worth considering. [...] Richard Gray possesses the most balanced scholarship of the entire range of American literature I ever read. [...] This is the first history of American literature fully worthy of the multi-dimensionality of its subject.Norman Weinstein, Boise State University
Author: Ssu-Ma Ch'Ien
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... an essential source for the study of events in early China, a guide to the moral philosophy of the gentlemen of Han, and a splendid work of literature which may be read for the pleasure of its style and the power of its narrative.... This work makes Shi ji and its scholarship accessible to any reader of English, and it is a model for any work in this field and style. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Oxford JournalsThrough such work as this, the scholary and literary community of the West will learn more of the splendour and romance of early China, and may better appreciate the lessons in humanity presented by its great historian. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies... Nienhausers new translation is scrupulously scholarly... the design of this series is nearly flawless... the translation itself is very precise... Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, ReviewsThis project will result in the first complete translation (in nine volumes) of the Shih chi (The Grand Scribes Records), one of the most important narratives in traditional China. Ssu-ma Chien (145-c.86 B.C.), who compiled the work, is known as the Herodotus of China.
Author: Dalai Lama
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama illuminates the highly practical and compassionate use of Tantra for spiritual development in this important classic work. Deity Yogais the second volume inThe Great Exposition of Secret Mantraseries in which the Dalai Lama offers illuminating commentary on Tsongkhapas seminal text on Buddhist tantra. It is preceded byVolume 1 Tantra in Tibetand followed byVolume 3 Yoga Tantra. This revised work describes the profound process of meditation in Action (kriya) and Performance (carya) Tantras. Invaluable for anyone who is practicing or is interested in Buddhist tantra, this volume includes a lucid exposition of the meditative techniques of deity yoga from H.H. the Dalai Lama the second and third chapters of the classicGreat Exposition of Secret Mantratext and a supplement by Jeffrey Hopkins outlining the structure of Action Tantra practices as well as the need for the development of special yogic powers. **
Author: Roger Paulin
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In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel and Coleridge to the reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution provides a sketch of its subjects intellectual and professional biography and gives an account of the wider cultural context, before going on to assess the double impact of Shakespeare on the writer and of the writer on subsequent interpretations of Shakespeare.**
Author: Greg Barnhisel
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European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling art exhibits, touring musical shows, radio programs, book translations, and conferences, they deployed the revolutionary aesthetics of modernism to prove--particularly to the leftists whose Cold War loyalties they hoped to secure--that American art and literature were aesthetically rich and culturally significant. Yet by repurposing modernism, American diplomats and cultural authorities turned the avant-garde into the establishment. They remade the once revolutionary movement into a content-free collection of artistic techniques and styles suitable for middlebrow consumption. Cold War Modernists documents how the CIA, the State Department, and private cultural diplomats transformed modernist art and literature into pro-Western propaganda during the first decade of the Cold War. Drawing on interviews, previously unknown archival materials, and the stories of such figures and institutions as William Faulkner, Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, James Laughlin, and Voice of America, Barnhisel reveals how the U.S. government reconfigured modernism as a trans-Atlantic movement, a joint endeavor between American and European artists, with profound implications for the art that followed and for the character of American identity.
Author: Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad
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This book, first published in 2007, seeks to examine a consistent theme occurring in judgements and awards given by international tribunals in the matter of boundary disputes, a theme which is predicated on finding some sort of difficulty in the implementation of those awards and judgements. This is a feature prominent in boundary and territorial disputes inasmuch as decisions relative to title to territory and location of a boundary line are always keenly contested and hotly disputed. Two remedies which have frequently been relied on by States are those of interpretation and revision. The author sheds light on how, when and in what circumstances will the tribunal be able to interpret or revise either its own or another tribunals decisions. By doing so, the study succeeds in contributing to an understanding of this area of the law.ReviewDr. Kaikobads excellent book on the interpretation and revision of international boundary decisions should be welcomed... --Enrico Milano, Global Law BooksKaikobads volume renders a rarely erudite and perceptive investigation of the issues relating to the international interpretation and revision of boundary decisions..an outstanding contribution both to understanding the interactions between territory and conflict in an era of globalization and to the contextualization and application of judicial remedies..lucid and shrewd. --Emilian Kavalski, University of Alberta[...] Kaikobad has written a worthwhile general introduction to the interpretation and revision of international judgements and awards generally, and to boundary decisions specifically. His major contribution is in organizing and classifying a great variety of treaties and cases involving interpretation and revision disputes. --Aaron Xavier Fellmeth, Arizona State University College of Law, The American Journal of International LawBook DescriptionThis 2007 book seeks to comment upon the nature, scope and effect of two important remedies in the adjudication of boundary disputes, namely the remedies of interpretation and revision. It examines these remedies by looking at their basic legal nature and the principles on which these remedies can be applied.
Author: Warren R. Perry
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An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Perry demonstrates the usefulness of archaeology in bypassing the biases of the ethnohistorical and documentary record and generating a more comprehensive understanding of history. Special attention is paid to the period of state formation in Swaziland and a critique of the `Settler Model, which the author finds to be invalid.
Author: Ernst Emanuel Mayer
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Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of Roman statesmen and upper class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we have from Roman timesart, architecture, and household artifacts from Pompeii and elsewherebelonged to, and was made for, artisans, merchants, and professionals. Roman culture as we have seen it with our own eyes, Emanuel Mayer boldly argues, turns out to be distinctly middle class and requires a radically new framework of analysis. Starting in the first century bce, ancient communities, largely shaped by farmers living within city walls, were transformed into vibrant urban centers where wealth could be quickly acquired through commercial success. From 100 bce to 250 ce, the archaeological record details the growth of a cosmopolitan empire and a prosperous new class rising along with it. Not as keen as statesmen and intellectuals to show off their status and refinement, members of this new middle class found novel ways to create pleasure and meaning. In the decor of their houses and tombs, Mayer finds evidence that middle-class Romans took pride in their work and commemorated familial love and affection in ways that departed from the tastes and practices of social elites. **