When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje by Hildegard Diemberger, Marilyn Strathern

By Hildegard Diemberger, Marilyn Strathern

Within the 15th century, the princess Chokyi Dronma used to be informed by means of the best religious masters of her time that she used to be the embodiment of the traditional Indian tantric deity Vajravarahi, recognized in Tibetan as Dorje Phagmo, the Thunderbolt woman Pig. After affliction an excellent own tragedy, Chokyi Dronma renounced her royal prestige to turn into a nun, and, in flip, the tantric consort of 3 striking spiritual masters of her period. After her loss of life, Chokyi Dronma's masters and disciples well-known a tender lady as her reincarnation, the 1st in an extended, strong, and influential girl lineage. this day, the 12th Samding Dorje Phagmo leads the Samding monastery and is a excessive executive cadre within the Tibet self reliant Region.

Hildegard Diemberger builds her ebook round the translation of the 1st biography of Chokyi Dronma recorded via her disciples within the wake of her loss of life. The account finds a rare phenomenon: even though it have been believed that girls in Tibet weren't allowed to acquire complete ordination such as priests, Chokyi Dronma not just persuaded one of many maximum religious academics of her period to provide her complete ordination but in addition proven orders for different girls practitioners and have become so respected that she used to be formally famous as one in all important religious heirs to her major master.

Diemberger bargains a couple of theoretical arguments concerning the value of reincarnation in Tibetan society and faith, the position of biographies in setting up a lineage, the need for spiritual lecturers to navigate complicated networks of political and fiscal patronage, the cultural and social innovation associated with the revival of historical Buddhist civilizations, and the function of ladies in Buddhism. 4 introductory, stage-setting chapters precede the biography, and 4 concluding chapters speak about the institution of the reincarnation lineage and the position of the present incarnation less than the especially contradictory communist process.

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Bones, stones, and Buddhist monks : collected papers on the by Gregory Schopen

By Gregory Schopen

From the Preface "The current quantity presents a necessary origin for a social historical past of Indian Buddhist monasticism. tough the preferred stereotype that represented the buildup of advantage because the area of the layperson whereas priests involved themselves with extra subtle geographical regions of doctrine and meditation, Professor Schopen problematizes many assumptions concerning the lay-monastic contrast by way of demonstrating that clergymen and nuns, either the scholastic elites and the fewer realized, participated actively in a variety of ritual practices and associations that experience heretofore been judged 'popular,' from the buildup and move of advantage; to the care of deceased relatives;.... Taken jointly, the reports contained during this quantity signify the root for a brand new historiography of Buddhism, not just for his or her critique of some of the idees recues of Buddhist experiences yet for the compelling connections they draw among it seems that disparate details." --Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

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Autobiography and Authorship in Renaissance Verse (Early by Elizabeth Heale

By Elizabeth Heale

The arrival of rather reasonable variants within the mid-16th century produced an explosion of verse, a lot of which represented the 1st individual speaker as a model of the writer. This publication examines ways that writers, usually looking development of their careers, harnessed verse for self-promotional reasons. Texts studied comprise a manuscript autobiography via Thomas Whythorne, revealed verse by means of a girl, Isabella Whitney, trip and conflict narratives, in addition to canonical texts via Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare.

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A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking: Critical Theory After by Aubrey L. Glazer

By Aubrey L. Glazer

A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking is a look for authenticity that mixes severe pondering with a craving for heartfelt poetics. A physiognomy of considering addresses the determine of a lifestyles lived the place conception and praxis are unified. This examine explores how the serious essays on track of German-Jewish philosopher, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) unavoidably accompany the downfall of metaphysics. via scrutinizing a serious juncture in smooth highbrow background, marked in 1931 by means of Adorno's founding of the Frankfurt Institute for Social learn, ignored purposes of serious conception to Jewish inspiration develop into attainable. This examine proffers a optimistic justification of a serious point of view, reconstructively proven how such beliefs are noticeable lower than the genealogical proviso of re/cognizing their unique which means. Re/cognition of A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking redresses missed purposes of destructive Dialectics, the poetics of God, the metaphysics of musical pondering, reification in Zionism, the transpoetics of Physics and Metaphysics, in addition to correlating Aesthetic concept to Jewish legislation (halakhah). >

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Totalitarian speech by Głowiński, Michał

By Głowiński, Michał

Totalitarian Speech brings jointly quite a number texts on totalitarian manipulations of language. the writer analyzes quite a few phenomena, from the hateful rhetoric of Nazi Germany to the obfuscating newspeak of communist Poland, discovering sure universal features. in particular, totalitarian speech in its varied manifestations imposes an all-embracing worldview and an linked set of dichotomous divisions from an omniscient and authoritative standpoint. This quantity collects the paintings of over 3 a long time, together with essays written through the communist period and more moderen items assessing the legacy of totalitarian methods of considering in modern Poland

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Origin and Mechanisms of Hallucinations: Proceedings of the by M. Baldwin (auth.), Wolfram Keup M.D. (eds.)

By M. Baldwin (auth.), Wolfram Keup M.D. (eds.)

Hallucinations, a common phenomenon as previous as mankind, have an incredibly wide variety. they seem lower than the main assorted stipulations, within the "normal" psyche in addition to in serious persistent psychological derangement. As a symptom, hallucinations are a possible a part of numerous pathological stipulations in just about all forms of psychotic habit. additionally, in recent times, numerous mental and sociological conditions appear to prefer frequent use and abuse of hallucinogens, ingredients in a position to produce hallucinations within the basic mind. They no longer hardly bring about critical psychopatho­ logy corresponding to poisonous, and mobilized or irritated endogenous psycho­ ses. whereas such improvement provides to our clinical wisdom, it additionally contributes to our present social problems. Neurologists and neuro-surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists and different really good researchers always were facing the phenomenon, its roots and branches, and but, its fundamental mechanisms are principally un­ identified. in spite of the fact that, investigators of hallucinations now appear to input universal flooring on which significant discussions and joint ways turn into possible and extra promising. we've come a ways from the Latin time period "hallucinari", desiring to speak nonsense, to be absent-minded, to the fashionable con­ cept of "hallucinations". whereas the Latin note was once descriptive of what could be because of hallucinations, the fashionable notion defines hal­ lucinations as subjective reviews which are outcomes of guys­ tal tactics, occasionally pleasing a function within the individual's psychological life.

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Abhinavagupta: The Kula Ritual as Elaborated in Chapter 29 by John R. Dupuche

By John R. Dupuche

During this work,he describes many of the tantras and areas in their apex the main severe of them, the Kula ritual. It additionally offers a translation of Jayaratha's statement. the Kula ritual leads the practitioner to extra exalted levels of mantras to arrive the top point of awareness, the "mantravyapti", the pervasion of the chant. the individual that is aware this pervasion is a Bhairava..

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The path of freedom (Vimuttimagga) by Soma Thera, N.R.M. Ehara

By Soma Thera, N.R.M. Ehara

The trail of Freedom, or Vimuttimagga, which serves as a meditation handbook, is widely thought of a superb and demanding paintings. it's just like the trail of Purification, or Visuddhimagga, yet much less analytical and simpler in its remedy of the normal meditation gadgets. either are commentaries, now not from the Pali Canon, yet very correct to it, particularly to the portion of the Pali Canon referred to as the Abhidhamma which includes the philosophical treatises of the Buddha. there's massive variance among traditions as to who's given credits for this nice paintings, even though it is generally held that it was once written centuries after the time of the Buddha

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