mobi |eng | | Author:unknow

and 9, states: 'Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses/ so did the Buddha command his disciples. 38 Just as the Gospels encourage celibacy, so does the ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:A. Basham [Basham, A.]

The Evolution of the Great Vehicle It is never claimed in the Pali scriptures that the Buddha was in any way supernatural. His supreme insight was gained by his own ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Amartya Sen [Sen, Amartya]

11 Women and Men* Many Faces of Gender Inequality Inequality between women and men can appear in many different forms – it has many faces.1 Gender disparity is, in fact, ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Raman, B. [Raman, B.]

CHAPTER XIV Geneva And Bofors I was posted in Geneva as Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the UN organizations based in Geneva from April 1985 to ...

mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Thomas Laird

With the Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet, Britain implied that the Manchu Empire was not a foreign state in relation to Tibet but did not say that ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:Mike Davis

Figure 8.1 Teleconnection as Selective Interaction In these entangled modes, ENSO impulses interact on longer timescales with regional climate periodicities, which, depending on phase, can either amplify or decrease the ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:William Dalrymple

The scale of William’s ambitions has echoes of the world of Conrad, with its steamships, up-country logging stations, ivory hunters, uncharted malarial forests and riverboats. Yet, driven forward with an ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:John Keay

It is a wonder to us that any of you live six months, and that there are not more quarrellings and duellings amongst you, if half these liquors were guzzled ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Ayesha Jalal [Jalal, Ayesha]

“You Can Forget Elections” Islamic ideology and military might were the twin pillars on which General Zia-ul-Haq began building his new order.2 Senior civil bureaucrats who encountered him could see ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Chawadee Nualkhair [Nualkhair, Chawadee]

Guaythiew Pik Gai Sai Nampheung กว๋ ยเตี๋ยวปีกไกส่ ายนํ้าผึง้, 392/20 ถนนสุขุมวิท อยูใ่ นซอยฝั่งขวา ระหวา่ งซอย 20 และซอย 18 SHOPHOUSE, 392/20 SUKHUMVIT, SUKHUMVIT This unassuming spot plastered with pictures of the Thai ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-02 | Author:Patwant Singh

Coping with his women must have been no less daunting a task for Ranjit Singh than dealing with the many adversaries he faced during his eventful reign. They numbered literally ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Rafia Zakaria [Zakaria, Rafia]

AUGUST 14–17, 1988 We always woke early on Independence Day to the sound of the flag flapping proudly against the post we had attached to the upstairs balcony a solid ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:S Hussain Zaidi [Zaidi, S Hussain]

Yeba Yaqub When Tiger had begun assembling his group, Yaqub, swept by a wave of enthusiasm, had pledged his support, though he had not known precisely how he could help. ...

azw3 |eng | 2007-10-10 | Author:Thomas Laird

I came back to the Dalai Lama armed with my research. As I briefly narrated, with a sense of indignation and outrage, the game Russia and Britain had played, the ...

azw3 |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Robert Thurman

A particularly sad fact of human history is that conflicts have arisen in the name of religion. Even today, individuals are killed, their communities destroyed, and societies destabilized as a ...