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... translation should be considered as a re-translation. Why re-translate this book? The age of the Wylie translation , lack of correlation with source Chinese text, and the archaic transliteration system used make it somewhat inaccessible to present-day readers and due for revisiting. To assist future authors to translate related texts and to help readers relate the transla...

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...Journey to the West is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It was written in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang, and loo...

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...ench royals employed lace, hardy Vikings - wool, Romans resorted to the sponge. The Chinese, ahead of the times in 1391, were the first to use paper... ...w.new-life.net/chrtms10.htm http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/GlastonburyArchive/2000/texts- p3/m22_jeez.html http://www.biblequestions.org/Archives... ... means, in French, "fall-preventing". "Paratroopers" means parachute troopers. The Chinese used parachutes for entertainment purposes or attached t... ...edu/history/classes/Sources/UmmaLagash.ht ml http://www.earth-history.com/Ancient-texts/Sumer/sumer- iinscription-umma-lagash.htm Rigor Mortis ... ... January 28, 1687, following the death of his only and beloved son, became a devout Buddhist. He criminalized the killing of all land animals, and t...

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...Thanks to Dr. Smarandache for his interest in Chinese culture. I cannot decline his warm request to write the preface, even with my fragments of knowledge – no insight nor wisdom, and therefore can be misleading. I have been extremely regretful for my ideological errors ...

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...On the Cultural Contrast: East-West, preface by F. Liu. 4 -- Abstract by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 12 -- Preface by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 13 -- Biography of the Translator. 18 -- Publication Review by F. Liu. 22 -- Annotation in the Chinese Transla...

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... preface by F. Liu .………….…..………………….4 Abstract by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics….………….…12 Preface by the Translator... ...Translation of Neutrosophics….………….…12 Preface by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics………………....13 Biography of the Transl... ...lication Review by F. Liu…………………………………………………..………..22 Annotation in the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics………………..………………27 Neutrosophic Dialog... ... to http://www.amtb.org.sg/2/2_10/2_10_1/2_10_1.htm, a link in the Dallas Buddhist Association (http://www.amtb-dba.org/English/index.html), to find... ...aiwan or Singapore websites, where there are plenty of English versions of texts and videos of Buddhism, to request the standard translation. “What ... ...ld fast in my mind. It is not until recent years, when I came across some Buddhist classics, that I began to realize: 1. Everyone has goodluck and b... ...r Zhong Daolong using the traditional “discipline, meditation and wisdom” Buddhist perspective. However, its implementation calls for a new social en...

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...ind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chinese friend, Yang Lin, if he knew anything at all: he was adopted and ... ...ependence Museum; mountain climbing; free English lessons, and visits to his Buddhist temple and congregation. Soon Sang Huin was spending every night... ...ng a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melodies. Toward 6 o'clock, he was still there--and for his exce... ...riptures or some dogmatic premises that were also claimed as infallible, the Buddhist and the Moslem were threats for an American Christian no less th... ...m it. Daydreaming is one of many defense mechanisms not listed in psychology texts. It's used by children when old things like Recla don't know how t... ...of the many miscellaneous parables in the thickets of pages that comprised a Chinese literature anthology; however, she had never radiated the enlight... ... really. Stretching and thinking my weird thoughts. Yeah, I went through a Chinese fast food drive-thru, thanks. What about you? Huh? You are break...

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...in 3 vols. : James Darmesteter & L. H. Mills. ~, IS, 24, 37, 47. PAHLAVI TEXTS, in 5 vols. : E. W. West. 6, g. THE QUR'AN, in 2 vols. : E. H. Palme... ...g. 10. THE DHAMMAPADA : F. Max Miiller; SUTTA-NIPATA : V. Fausboll. II. BUDDHIST SUTTAS : T. W. Rhys Davids. 12,26,4 1 ,43,44. THE SATAPATHA-BRAHM... ... THE SATAPATHA-BRAHMA~A, in 5 vols. : Julius Eggeling. 13, 17,20. VINAYA TEXTS, in 3 vols. : T . W. Rhys Davids & H ermann Oldenberg. . 19· THE FO... ...ield. 4fl. THE VEDANTA-SUTRAS with Ramanuja's Sribha~ya: G. Thibaut. 49. BUDDHIST MAHAYANA TEXTS: E . B. Cowell, F. Max Milller & J. Takakusu. 50.... ...DANTA-SUTRAS with Ramanuja's Sribha~ya: G. Thibaut. 49. BUDDHIST MAHAYANA TEXTS: E . B. Cowell, F. Max Milller & J. Takakusu. 50. INDEX : M. Winter... ...2 Atharva ·veda. 10 (ii) Sutta-Nipata. 25 Laws of Manu. 43} Satapatha- 11 Buddhist Suttas. 26 Satapatha- 44 Brahmalla. 12 Satapatha- Brahmana. 45 Ga... ...hkramalla-Sfitra, trans­ compelled his slave girls to prostitu- lated into Chinese, 19, xxix. tion, 9, 77 n. AbhipratQ.rin Kaitraratha, Jce Abdallah...

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...The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta is the most influential scripture in Buddhist meditation. It is the foundation text for the modern schools of ‘vipassanā’ or ‘insight’ meditation. The well-known Pali discourse is, however, only one of many early Buddhist texts that deal with mindfulness. This i...

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...Foreword: The Vipassananāvādā 1 The Meaning of ‘Buddha’ 1.1 The Ambiguity of Tradition 1.2 The Death of Myth 2 The GIST 1​—​Three Strata of Early Texts 2.1 Before the Buddha 2.2 The First Discourses 2.3 The Gāthā Theory 2.4 The Earliest Collection 2.5 The First Abhidhamma 2.6 Some Problems 3 The GIST 2​—​The Agreement of the Three Strata 3.1 The Seeds of the Sa...

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...permission of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. Edward Conze (tr.), Buddhist Scriptures, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1959. © Edward Conze,... ...quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CONTENTS ... ...f Buddhism Since Gautama The Essence Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does H... ...of India had THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION x been popularized in the West, with Buddhist and Hindu doctrines being widely known—even though for the most pa... ...occupation, and the New Testament which consists of writings selected from texts composed by Christians during the first two centuries AD. Details of ... ... RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 68 frequently refers to God as “Father,” and in many texts the specific phrase “son of God” is applied to Jesus. In a Semitic la... ...ssence of God, not knowing at all where it is, knowing nothing but God. 77 Chinese Taoist: The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name t... ...here Quakerism originated and spread, and the cultural underlay of Indian, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism which gave rise to Zen. There is a definite t... ...nity is part, are unified. Such a concept equates with that of the ancient Chinese in the Tao, which is variously inadequately interpreted and trans- ...

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...ve our chat over lunch. Here at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Te... ...opeans with the fork in the left. Indians may eat with their right hands, Chinese with chop sticks. No need for tolerance, each is wrong in the othe... ...roastrians believe in a single God. This is called monotheism. The purist Buddhists would not believe in a special god, but some Buddhist sects do a... ...also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to which the wr... ...t of Yahweh, God or Allah. And they speak of their experiences just as do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saint... ...just wrong. So we have a billion Hindus believing in pantheism. A billion Chinese believing in ancestor worship. A couple of billion Muslims and a c... ... you. Throw in 2/3rds of a billi on Hindus and a third of a billion Buddhists and you have most of the world categorized. The Jews, for all the... ...cred scriptures of Baha'u'llah of the Bahai faith, and perhaps the ‗ruti‘ texts of Hinduism which were whispered by the wind to Brahmin priests and... ...enice 900 years after the Prophet lived. ―But there are many other texts that are sometimes even more important than the holy scriptures for ...

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...That the gods are inside of us is something that sacred Hindu and Egyptian texts state explicitly. Homer tells us that primary beauty brings with ... ... Pharaohs built their pyramids as signs of their presumed immortality; the Chinese emperors brought their armies of terracotta soldiers to the grave ... ... perfection instead is for Jews and Christians, or Illumination is for the Buddhists. Its purpose is to develop the human artistic ability to create... ... Homer was not a prophet, he was a poet. The Hindus who created the sacred texts of the Upanishad were also poets. A poet is not a historian and he ... ...e God of the Hebrews and beauty. It is not mentioned. We do not know what Buddhist thought says about the search for beauty. Wisdom is mentioned, b... ... books of Buddha speak of religious teachings that over time became sacred texts, Homer’s poems are not religious texts, they are not sacred to anyo... ...ople appreciate them. They are, however, also books of wisdom, just as the Buddhist texts and the Bible are. I consider my hypotheses as a way to in...

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... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...d priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Kublai Khan‘s reign spawned numerous developments ... ...lped oversee the Bible project as well as the more profitable printing of texts, such as Latin grammars and papal indulgences (the forgiveness of si... ... secrets of double-entry bookkeeping. 19 In editing and publishing such texts, moreover, printers passed on to others the lessons they had to lear... ...onks, became immersed in a new culture of capitalism when they took their texts to print shops. Meanwhile, printers‘ connection with the ―divine art...

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...iti it was decreed that if Sudras were going to even hear the Vedas (the holy texts of the Brahmins) being uttered, molten lead had to be poured int... ...yar in order to make people realize the idiocy of idol worship. He convened a Buddhist Conference at Erode. In 1954, he left for Burma to attend the... ...st Conference at Erode. In 1954, he left for Burma to attend the World 112 Buddhist Conference where he once again met Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. When ... ...ted: Am I the one doing all this? Or, is it the Brahmins? Observe this. The Buddhists and Jains eradicated the cruelty of Brahmins and said people... ...dia and they teach Vedas, Sastras and the ceremonial recitation of the sacred texts. Tradition and law also accept it. Great men like Jayavelu, Mu... ... Aryan myths—the puranas that is Ramayana, Bharatam, Bhagavata, etc.— as his texts and quotes from these. We dare to think that these slippery pura... ...Swaraj or nonsense! Whether the white man rules, or the Russian rules, or the Chinese rules, it is okay; I feel that this north Indian and Brahmin m...

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...mountain of Mt Qiyun. He visited the temple and shrines on that Mountain. A Chinese Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang... ...ositions of power, and preserving untouched and unchanged its sacred obsolete texts. Hiding the fact that the basic principles it preserves have bee... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ...ed flags of their rulers in the soil. And by reading certain official sacred texts before a small handful of European witnesses, they suddenly inst... ...European misery was attributed to the secret evils contained in these ancient texts left over from the hated and despised Roman Empire. But then… t... ...will fail. If you leave your family at an early age, and study under famous Buddhist sages, and practice Buddhism all your life; you will not beco... ...hist sages, and practice Buddhism all your life; you will not become a famous Buddhist sage. Only one… one token person will ever gain that token ... ...ake voluntary vows of poverty and chastity… and practice voluntary hardship. Buddhist Taoist, Shintoist monks in the East practiced it long before ...

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...s 172 Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Prog... ... Power of sorcerers 103 * From tradition to belief in development 104 Buddhist religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local reli... ...n. Near the close of the rainy season thirty years ago, I stepped out of a Chinese hotel in Sob Tui, near Lampang station, and crossed the road to the... ... of morality that existed in the Christian villages of the past or in the Buddhist communities of this book. Never has so much information and resear... ...ed by white flags or pennants both in Thailand and in Finland, why Lampang Chinese and Orthodox Karelians hang pennants on the graves of their loved o... ... before, but today one cannot say that, and such dishonesty is contrary to Buddhist morality. Improvements in the roads and in villagers' community sp... ...ved. In the chapel at the cremation site, the monks hold a service, recite texts appropriate to the occasion, and bless the departed. The service ends...

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...ealist poem", 'foolishly speaking' a "dadaist poem", 'the conversation in Chinese for an ignorant of this language' a "leftist poem", 'alternating d... ...e 5 must scientificize the art in this technical century; - impersonal texts personalized; - electrical shock; - translation from the impossible... ...e laugh at them in disregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that I create lyrical texts, I hide them. People neither read nor listen to lyrical texts anymor... ...ond the veil of the world there is an absolute reality. A text on a Chinese Funeral Pillar: "Detour of non-boundary, statement of non-statemen... ...cognoscible God", who is present without being made known, an echo of the Buddhist paradox of presence-absence grounded by Nâgârjuna. While Hegel (... ...lued paraconsistent system as his First Degree Entailment semantics; The Buddhist logic added a fifth value to the previous ones, ‘none of these’ (c... ...les: Or, how to calculate the truth-value of Zen (in Japanese) / Chan (in Chinese) doctrine philosophical proposition: the present is eternal and co...

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...dedicated the last few months to ploughing through reams of anti-Semitic tracts and texts. Steeped in more or less nauseating verbal insanity and sh... ... Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe... ...o defend the external source from the inevitable discovery that it is meaningless. Chinese Room Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to ref... ...ts, equipped with a book of instructions in English. Through one window messages in Chinese are passed on to him (in the original experiment, two ty... ...ligious law, or any other widely accepted law - says is a crime. Legal systems and texts often conflict. Murderous blood feuds are legitimate accor... ...were perfectly in accord with a literal interpretation of certain divinely-inspired texts, millennial scriptures, apocalyptic thought systems, and ... ...o similar to "paramartha satya" (the "ultimate truth") in the Madhyamika school of Buddhist thought. The ultimate truth cannot be expressed verball...

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...dedicated the last few months to ploughing through reams of anti-Semitic tracts and texts. Steeped in more or less nauseating verbal insanity and sh... ... Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe... ...o defend the external source from the inevitable discovery that it is meaningless. Chinese Room Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to ref... ...ts, equipped with a book of instructions in English. Through one window messages in Chinese are passed on to him (in the original experiment, two ty... ...ligious law, or any other widely accepted law - says is a crime. Legal systems and texts often conflict. Murderous blood feuds are legitimate accor... ...were perfectly in accord with a literal interpretation of certain divinely-inspired texts, millennial scriptures, apocalyptic thought systems, and ... ...o similar to "paramartha satya" (the "ultimate truth") in the Madhyamika school of Buddhist thought. The ultimate truth cannot be expressed verball...

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...n mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts t...

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... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...d priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Kublai Khan‘s reign spawned numerous development... ...lped oversee the Bible project as well as the more profitable printing of texts, such as Latin grammars and papal indulgences (the forgiveness of si... ...ecrets of double-entry bookkeeping. 19 In editing and publishing such texts, moreover, printers passed on to others the lessons they had to lear... ...onks, became immersed in a new culture of capitalism when they took their texts to print shops. Meanwhile, printers‘ connection with ...