World
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-12-07 | Author:Jose Ignacio Cabezon

Accordingly, when many Mongol troops led by one called Khathasu arrived that Pig year (1587), they rushed from Oyug33 up to Nyugda.34 At that time, I had no aquaintance with ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:Santideva

Chapter VIII The Perfection of Meditation 1. Upon developing zeal in that way, one should stabilize the mind in meditative concentration, since a person whose mind is distracted lives between ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:McMahan, David L. [McMahan, David L.]

If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow.... And if ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Khyentse, Dilgo [Khyentse, Dilgo]

[*In which every instruction of the Buddha can be integrated for the enlightenment of an individual practitioner; called “wondrous” because texts, precepts and oral instructions are all brought into harmony.] ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Jampa Mackenzie Stewart

The Kagyupa order is a loose conglomerate of monastic centers, each of which functions independently, while remaining loyal to the common history and heritage-rather like a necklace with many strings. ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-25 | Author:Heidi I. Koppl

Mipham is adamant in advocating the intrinsic purity of all phenomena and rebukes the idea of purity or divinities being merely skillful means (thabs), an approach already evident in Rongzom's ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Lopez, Donald S. [Lopez, Donald S.]

INTERLUDE A Primer on Buddhist Meditation An essential element in the modernization of meditation is the claim that a particular form of practice is not “religious.” It may be “Buddhist,” ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:His Holiness the Dalai Lamai

Three Extra Verses The following three verses continue with the comparison of the Mahayana scriptures and the Hinayana scriptures. However, according to the Indian commentator Prajnakaramati, these three verses are ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Stokes Brown [Stokes Brown, Cynthia]

Urban Centers in Mesoamerica The founding urban culture of the Americas, emerging in about 1000 BCE, belonged to the Olmecs, located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in ...
( Category: World January 21,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-20 | Author:Ian Crofton [Crofton, Ian]

As far as choosing a lover is concerned, the stupider (and better-endowed) he is the better: “the more stupid ass you have to deal with, with greater ease and facility ...
( Category: World January 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Mark Stevens [Stevens, Mark]

Entertainments The social side of life in the asylum is constantly promoted to the patients. Association is an important skill and easily tested in work and play, so we try ...
( Category: Great Britain January 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Lewis, Bernard [Lewis, Bernard]

CHAPTER V SATAN AND THE SOVIETS America’s new role—and the Middle East’s perception of it—was vividly illustrated by an incident in Pakistan in 1979. On November 20, a band of ...
( Category: Islam January 20,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Richard Miles

11 In the Footsteps of Heracles A HERACLEAN LABOUR The enormity of the task ahead must have struck Hannibal the moment the Hiberus had been crossed. He may have received ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Corrie Ten Boom

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom. Isaiah 40:11 13 A Place to Be Everyone ...
( Category: Religious January 19,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Fernand Braudel

The ‘Balkanization’ of the Middle East The map of the Middle East had become extremely complicated. The simultaneous decline of Egypt and Mesopotamia and the collapse of the Hittite Empire ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 19,2015 )