Download or read book Climbing the Dragon Gate written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the echoes of history, Mi's quest for redemption unfolds in this unexpected conclusion to this historical epic. As Japan stands on the precipice of transformation under the new emperor's decree to bury the past, Mi finds herself torn between the relentless march of progress and her loyalty to an old friend. When a trusted confidant arrives severely wounded after participating in a rebellion against the emerging order, Mi's world is thrown into turmoil. Determined to heal her friend, Mi deploys all her formidable skills, but her impulsive decision to join him in his quest to overturn the new order unravels the life she had so carefully built. As the weight of her actions bears down upon her, she finds herself falsely imprisoned, facing the ominous specter of death. In the midst of her darkest hours, Mi comes to realize the profound wisdom of an ancient proverb—that the past is the future of the present. The echoes of history reverberate through her captivity, revealing the intricate tapestry of consequences woven by her choices and those of the society she once called home. In this gripping culmination of the series, Mi's resilience is put to the ultimate test. Join her as she navigates a landscape fraught with danger, betrayal, and political upheaval. As she confronts the consequences of her impetuous choices, the line between the past and present blurs, leaving her to grapple with the true price of redemption in a rapidly evolving Japan. Keywords: Japanese historical fiction, pachinko, Min Jin Lee, Musashi, Julie Otsuka, Gail Tsukiyama, Jamie Ford, James Clavell, Shogun, geisha, japanese historical fiction books, historical fiction, historical fiction best sellers, historical fiction authors, historical fiction asian, historical fiction books, historical romance, historical fiction novels, historical fiction romance series

Download or read book Opening the Dragon Gate written by Chen Kaiguo and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authorized biography of the contemporary Taoist expert Wang Liping (1949 -) tells the true story of his apprenticeship in Taoist wizardry, as well as Taoist principles and secrets of inner transformation. The 18th-generation transmitter of Dragon Gate Taoism, Wang Liping is heir to a tradition of esoteric knowledge and practice accumulated and refined over eleven centuries. This is the first English translation by noted writer Thomas Cleary of the authorized biography by two longtime disciples of this living master of the Dragon Gate branch of the Complete Reality school of Taoism, which integrated Buddhism and Confucianism into a comprehensive new form of Taoism.

Download or read book Becoming a Dragon written by Sakana Morino and published by . This book was released on 2014-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanlin, a young carp, sets out to find and climb the legendary waterfall called the Dragon Gate, knowing that if he succeeds he will become a dragon, and in facing loneliness, pain, and hardship along the way he learns courage and determination.

Download or read book The Chronicles of the Exile written by Marc Turner and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discounted ebundle of The Chronicles of the Exile includes: When the Heavens Fall, Dragon Hunters, and Red Tide “Marc Turner is what the fanatsy genre has been looking for.” —Starburst The swords & sorcery epic is reborn in this debut fantasy trilogy teeming with renegade guardians, dark mages, undead armies, Storm Lords, sea dragons, scheming priests, troublesome gods...and so much more. When the Heavens Fall If you pick a fight with Shroud, Lord of the Dead, you had better ensure your victory, else death will mark only the beginning of your suffering. Dragon Hunters Once a year on Dragon Day the fabled Dragon Gate is raised to let a sea dragon pass from the Southern Wastes into the Sabian Sea. There, it will be hunted by the Storm Lords, a fellowship of powerful water-mages who rule an empire called the Storm Isles. Alas, this year someone forgot to tell the dragon which is the hunter and which the hunted. Red Tide The Rubyholt Isles is a shattered nation of pirate-infested islands and treacherous waterways shielding the seaboards of Erin Elal and the Sabian League. Deadly assassins, hopeful alliances, and a quest for revenge makes for an epic final volume in Marc Turner's fantasy trilogy. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Dragon s Gate written by Vivian Bi and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dragon's Gate is a superb book, a fascinating story written from the heart and woven into a complex cultural and historical tapestry - a modern classic in the making." - Robert Macklin, author of Dragon and Kangaroo Shi Ding is seventeen. In an attempt to impress a girl, he joins a local Red Guard unit and succeeds in having a nine-year-old boy arrested and a widowed professor of foreign literature driven to a shameful suicide. But when his father's death is also revealed as suicide, Shi Ding is expelled from the gang. He suspects there was more to the relationship between his father and the professor than friendship and he moves into her empty house. There he discovers a library of translations of forbidden Western classics. Himself a born storyteller, he is transfixed by the stories in these books by the likes of Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Hugo, Dickens, and Dumas … Set in China in the mid-60s, Dragon's Gate is about the power of storytelling. Within its overarching narrative, there are stories of little-known worlds: river logging in remote mountains, armed fighting between Red Guard factions, fortune telling on long train journeys, community life in the courtyards of Beijing hutong. Memorable characters abound in this rich and varied tale - characters like Sun Lanfen, the nosy, tough but decent residential compound leader; the blind singer who was struck dumb when he had to sing songs set to Chairman Mao's quotations; and the Buffalo Boy who was reputed to have fathered a hundred children in a Tibetan village. "The unique interweaving of fascinating tales set in exotic places with familiar and much loved western classics makes this book a page turner from beginning to end." - Jane Sydenham-Kwiet, German teacher and translator

Download or read book Dragon Hunters written by Marc Turner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragon Hunters, the sequel to Marc Turner's When the Heavens Fall features gritty characters, deadly magic, and meddlesome gods Once a year on Dragon Day the fabled Dragon Gate is raised to let a sea dragon pass from the Southern Wastes into the Sabian Sea. There, it will be hunted by the Storm Lords, a fellowship of powerful water-mages who rule an empire called the Storm Isles. Alas, this year someone forgot to tell the dragon which is the hunter and which the hunted. Emira Imerle Polivar is coming to the end of her tenure as leader of the Storm Lords. She has no intention of standing down graciously. She instructs an order of priests called the Chameleons to infiltrate a citadel housing the mechanism that controls the Dragon Gate to prevent the gate from being lowered after it has been raised on Dragon Day. Imerle hopes the dozens of dragons thus unleashed on the Sabian Sea will eliminate her rivals while she launches an attack on the Storm Lord capital, Olaire, to secure her grip on power. But Imerle is not the only one intent on destroying the Storm Lord dynasty. As the Storm Lords assemble in Olaire in answer to a mysterious summons, they become the targets of assassins working for an unknown enemy. When Imerle initiates her coup, that enemy makes use of the chaos created to show its hand.

Download or read book The Hope Filled Teachings of Nichiren Daishonin written by Daisaku Ikeda and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisaku Ikeda, president of the worldwide Soka Gakkai International, elucidates the importance of studying Nichiren's writings as the foundation of Nichiren Buddhism as practiced by the Soka Gakkai International. His lectures bring Nichiren's immense wisdom, compassion, and courage into focus for the present age. In reading and studying these lectures, we learn how to apply in daily life Nichiren's profound philosophy for inner transformation and victory for both ourselves and others. The Hope-Filled Teachings of Nichiren will empower you to find hope and develop the strength and wisdom to bring forth your inherent potential.

Download or read book Zen Sand written by Victor Sogen Hori and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen Sand is a classic collection of verses aimed at aiding practitioners of kôan meditation to negotiate the difficult relationship between insight and language. As such it represents a major contribution to both Western Zen practice and English-language Zen scholarship. In Japan the traditional Rinzai Zen kôan curriculum includes the use of jakugo, or "capping phrases." Once a monk has successfully replied to a kôan, the Zen master orders the search for a classical verse to express the monk’s insight into the kôan. Special collections of these jakugo were compiled as handbooks to aid in that search. Until now, Zen students in the West, lacking this important resource, have been severely limited in carrying out this practice. Zen Sand combines and translates two standard jakugo handbooks and opens the way for incorporating this important tradition fully into Western Zen practice. For the scholar, Zen Sand provides a detailed description of the jakugo practice and its place in the overall kôan curriculum, as well as a brief history of the Zen phrase book. This volume also contributes to the understanding of East Asian culture in a broader sense.

Download or read book Through The Dragon s Gate written by Jean O'Hara and published by Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean O'Hara is now a prominent psychiatrist in London, but she grew up in a humble tenement flat in Hong Kong in the 1960s, the daughter of an Anglo- Burmese librarian (later a senior civil servant) and his Chinese wife. Her childhood was a simple one, sleeping on a straw mat in a tiny bedroom which she at first shared with both her grandmother and sister. As Jean grew up she developed a fascination for medicine and moved to the UK to attend medical school, eventually becoming a consultant psychiatrist. This book is her account of a childhood steeped in the culture of China, and first steps in a career in medicine. Central to the story is the character of Jean's Chinese grandmother, a charismatic matriarch who gave her a rich understanding of Chinese culture and an oriental outlook which has never left her.ÿ

Download or read book The Art of Chinese Management written by Kai-Alexander Schlevogt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth empirical study of Chinese organizational design in state and private enterprises. Web-based Chinese management, a new paradigm in business studies, explains the dynamism of private Chinese enterprises and demonstrates the crucial role of micro-level organizational practices for economic development. It can be used anywhere in the world to help deal with the increasing uncertainty and complexity for the next millennium and can also be used as a framework for economic policy.

Download or read book Gardening at the Dragon s Gate written by Wendy Johnson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson and Te Salle deliver a meditative, beautifully illustrated yet profoundly practical book that takes readers deep into the natural world and into a new understanding of the art of gardening.

Download or read book At the Dragon s Gate written by Charles Fenn and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of World War II, a young Marine named Charles Fenn was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for undercover operations in the China-Burma-India theatre. Fenn knew exactly what it took to get the job done. His wartime exploits are the stuff of legend, but not even his OSS compatriots knew the full extent of his espionage activities. Fenn's skill as a spy is matched by his talent as a storyteller, and this witty, elegantly written account of his OSS days not only adds to the historical record, it makes for a compelling read.

Download or read book The New Human Revolution vol 30 written by Daisaku Ikeda and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this novelized history of the Soka Gakkai—one of the most dynamic, diverse, and empowering movements in the world today—readers will discover the organization's goals and achievements even as they find inspiring and practical Buddhist wisdom for living happily and compassionately in today's world. The book recounts the stories of ordinary individuals who faced tremendous odds in transforming their lives through the practice of Nichiren Buddhism and in bringing Buddhism's humanistic teachings to the world. This inspiring narrative provides readers with the principles with which they can positively transform their own lives for the better and realize enduring happiness for themselves and others.

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Download or read book Supreme Emperor written by Deng XiaWuYu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man named Qin Feng, who was the ninth son of Dragon Emperor in the previous life, was attacked by his brother in a war, and his army was overwhelmed. Not only that, even his family was killed by his brother and his beloved woman was token away. Unwilling to die like this, he practiced for a full 10,000 years, and finally practiced his martial arts. In this life, he must return to the peak and revenge ten times.☆About the Author☆Dengxia Wuyu is a well-known online novelist. He has rich creative experience, strong writing ability, and has authored many novels. Among his representative works are: Sword Master Close to the Sky, Supreme Emperor. His novels are loved for deeply describeing the characters.