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Book The Ubiquitous Siva

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  • Author : John Nemec
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2011-07-22
  • ISBN : 0199795452
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book The Ubiquitous Siva written by John Nemec and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijna or "Recognition [of God]" School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism. In doing so it offers, for the very first time, a critical edition and annotated translation of a large portion of the first Pratyabhijna text ever composed, the Sivadrsti of Somananda. In an extended introduction, Nemec argues that the author presents a unique form of non-dualism, a strict pantheism that declares all beings and entities found in the universe to be fully identical with the active and willful god Siva. This view stands in contrast to the philosophically more flexible panentheism of both his disciple and commentator, Utpaladeva, and the very few other Saiva tantric works that were extant in the author's day. Nemec also argues that the text was written for the author's fellow tantric initiates, not for a wider audience. This can be adduced from the structure of the work, the opponents the author addresses, and various other editorial strategies. Even the author's famous and vociferous arguments against the non-tantric Hindu grammarians may be shown to have been ultimately directed at an opposing Hindu tantric school that subscribed to many of the grammarians' philosophical views. Included in the volume is a critical edition and annotated translation of the first three (of seven) chapters of the text, along with the corresponding chapters of the commentary. These are the chapters in which Somananda formulates his arguments against opposing tantric authors and schools of thought. None of the materials made available in the present volume has ever been translated into English, apart from a brief rendering of the first chapter that was published without the commentary in 1957. None of the commentary has previously been translated into any language at all.

Book The Ubiquitous Siva Volume II

Download or read book The Ubiquitous Siva Volume II written by John Nemec and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sequel to a volume published in 2011 by OUP under the title The Ubiquitous 'Siva: Som=ananda's 'Sivad.r.s.ti and his Tantric Interlocutors. The first volume offered an introduction, critical edition, and annotated translation of the first three chapters of the 'Sivad.r.s.ti of Som=ananda, along with its principal commentary, the 'Sivad.r.s.tiv.rtti, written by Utpaladeva. It dealt primarily with 'Saiva theology and the religious views of competing esoteric traditions. The present volume presents the fourth chapter of the 'Sivad.r.s.ti and 'Sivad.r.s.tiv.rtti and addresses a fresh set of issues that engage a distinct family of opposing schools and authors of mainstream Indian philosophical traditions. In this fourth chapter, Som=ananda and Utpaladeva engage logical and philosophical works that exerted tremendous influence in the Indian subcontinent in its premodernity. Among the authors and schools addressed by Som=ananda in this chapter are the Buddhist Epistemologists, and Dharmak=irti in particular; the Hindu school of hermeneutics, i.e., the M=im=a.ms=a; the Hindu realist schools of the logic- and debate-oriented Ny=aya and their ontologically-oriented partners, the Vaiśe.sika; and the Hindu, dualist S=a.mkhya and Yoga schools. Throughout this chapter, Som=ananda endeavors to explain his brand of 'Saivism philosophically. Som=ananda challenges his philosophical interlocutors with a single over-arching argument: he suggests that their views cannot coherethey cannot be explained logicallyunless their authors accept the 'Saiva non-duality for which he advocates. The argument he offers, despite its historical influence, remains virtually unstudied. The Ubiquitous 'Siva Volume II offers the first English translation of Chapter Four of the 'Sivad.r.s.ti and 'Sivad.r.s.tiv.rtti along with an introduction and critical edition.

Book Glycosylation and Cancer

Download or read book Glycosylation and Cancer written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Here, once again, outstanding and original reviews are presented on a variety of topics. - Provides information on cancer research - Outstanding and original reviews - Suitable for researchers and students

Book Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

Download or read book Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease written by A. Catherine Ross and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 1645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed book is a complete, authoritative reference on nutrition and its role in contemporary medicine, dietetics, nursing, public health, and public policy. Distinguished international experts provide in-depth information on historical landmarks in nutrition, specific dietary components, nutrition in integrated biologic systems, nutritional assessment through the life cycle, nutrition in various clinical disorders, and public health and policy issues. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, Eleventh Edition, offers coverage of nutrition's role in disease prevention, international nutrition issues, public health concerns, the role of obesity in a variety of chronic illnesses, genetics as it applies to nutrition, and areas of major scientific progress relating nutrition to disease.

Book The Mahanubhavs

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  • Author : Antonio Rigopoulos
  • Publisher : Firenze University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 8884532647
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book The Mahanubhavs written by Antonio Rigopoulos and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ascetic, devotional sect of the Mahanubhavs -Those of the great experience - arose, like the much more popular bhakti movement of the Vårkaris centred in Pandharpur, in thirteenth century Maharastra. If in the beginning the Mahanubhavs had a fairly rapid expansion, especially in the northern and eastern regions of Maharastra, around the end of the fourteenth century their movement went underground aiming at a defensive isolation from the larger Hindü context. They centred themselves in remote areas and villages. Although the prominent leaders among the early Mahanubhavs were brahma's (often converts from the prevailing advaita vaißñavism), their followers were and are mostly non-brahma's, that is, low caste people and even untouchables. Outside of their own closed circles Mahanubhavs were met with prejudice and distrust, at least up to the beginning of the twentieth century. In this volume the author offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs, discussing those aspects which appear especially revealing of their difference and nonconformity.

Book Lunar Science

Download or read book Lunar Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congress Volume

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  • Author : International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. Congress
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789004115989
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Congress Volume written by International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. Congress and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Congress Volume comprises not only the main lectures of the XVIth I.O.S.O.T. Congress, held in Oslo 1998, but also the interventions at the two panels on "Intertextuality and the Pluralism of Methods" and on "The Hebrew Bible and History." Both the main lectures and the panelists' interventions focus on current methodological problems and study central questions in the present study of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in its environment.

Book The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany  2nd ed

Download or read book The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany 2nd ed written by Richard I. Ford and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Trade

Download or read book World Trade written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Download or read book Canadian Journal of Microbiology written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peptaibiotics

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  • Author : Claudio Toniolo
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2009-05-26
  • ISBN : 9783906390529
  • Pages : 726 pages

Download or read book Peptaibiotics written by Claudio Toniolo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally a special issue of Chemistry & Biodiversity, this is an excellent overview of the status of contemporary studies in peptaibiotics, covering aspects ranging from the search for novel bioactive compounds to considerations of their membrane-modifying properties.

Book Yifta     el

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  • Author : Eliot Braun
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Yifta el written by Eliot Braun and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yiftah'el Salvage and Rescue Excavation at a Prehistoric Village in Lower Galilee Aby E Braun et al. A complete excavation report of a late prehistoric site in Galilee. Several periods are represented in four major strata. They include Pre-Pottery C, Neolithic Pottery, Early Bronze I and Middle Bronze I. The report includes chapters on stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, groundstone and chipped stone industries, osteological finds (animal and human), metallurgy and miscellaneous finds, discussions devoted to the surroundings of the site and the cultural milieu of the several periods. This is one of the few major reports on sites of these periods in the North of Israel to date.

Book Integrity  Honesty  and Truth Seeking

Download or read book Integrity Honesty and Truth Seeking written by Christian B. Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tend to admire people who stay true to their convictions in the face of opposition, who are not tempted to twist or withhold the truth for selfish reasons, and who seek the truth even when it means giving up their cherished views. Indeed, integrity, honesty, and truth seeking are crucial virtues on both intimate and global scales, significant in everything from our relationships to our politicians' accountability. The past forty years have witnessed a dramatic resurgence of philosophical interest in the virtues. And yet there has been surprisingly little work among philosophers aimed at helping us better understand these three truth-related virtues. Edited by philosophers Christian B. Miller and Ryan West, this interdisciplinary volume significantly advances the discussion of integrity, honesty, and truth seeking by incorporating the insights and perspectives of experts in philosophy, law, communication and rhetorical studies, theology, psychology, history, and education. Each of the volume's three sections is devoted to one virtue, and comprises a conceptual chapter about the nature of the virtue in question, an application chapter that explores the virtue's central role in an area of human life, and a developmental chapter covering some of the ways people can foster the virtue. Additionally, the volume addresses experimental work on honest and dishonest behavior, one of the fastest growing and most important research areas in the field of moral psychology today. Every reader will come away from this volume with a deepened knowledge of and appreciation for the essential roles of these three virtues in our world, and rich resources for developing and sustaining them in life.

Book Advanced Information Systems Engineering

Download or read book Advanced Information Systems Engineering written by Paolo Giorgini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2019, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2019. The 41 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 206 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk in full paper length. The papers were organized in topical sections named: information system engineering; requirements and modeling; data modeling and analysis; business process modeling and engineering; information system security; and learning and mining in information systems. Abstracts on the CAiSE 2019 tutorials can be found in the back matter of the volume.

Book Immunologic Receptors   Advances in Research and Application  2012 Edition

Download or read book Immunologic Receptors Advances in Research and Application 2012 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immunologic Receptors—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Immunologic Receptors. The editors have built Immunologic Receptors—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Immunologic Receptors in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Immunologic Receptors—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Book Relating Events Narrative Set

Download or read book Relating Events Narrative Set written by Ruth A. Berman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 1389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studied the development of linguistic form/function relations in narrative discourse. It is unique in the extent of data which it analyzes--more than 250 texts from children and adults speaking five different languages--and in its crosslinguistic, typological focus. It is the first book to address the issue of how the structural properties and rhetorical preferences of different native languages--English, German, Spanish, Hebrew, and Turkish--impinge on narrative abilities across different phases of development. The work of Berman and Slobin and their colleagues provides insight into the interplay between shared, possibly universal, patterns in the developing ability to create well-constructed, globally organized narratives among preschoolers from three years of age compared with school children and adults, contrasted against the impact of typological and rhetorical features of particular native languages on how speakers express these abilities in the process of "relating events in narrative." This volume also makes a special contribution to the field of language acquisition and development by providing detailed analyses of how linguistic forms come to be used in the service of narrative functions, such as the expression of temporal relations of simultaneity and retrospection, perspective-taking on events, and textual connectivity. To present this information, the authors prepared in-depth analyses of a wide range of linguistic systems, including tense-aspect marking, passive and middle voice, locative and directional predications, connectivity markers, null subjects, and relative clause constructions. In contrast to most work in the field of language acquisition, this book focuses on developments in the use of these early forms in extended discourse--beyond the initial phase of early language development.

Book The Rough Guide to Croatia

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Croatia written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Croatia is the ultimate travel guide to one of Mediterranean Europe's most beautiful and unspoiled countries. This full-color guide includes reliable and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from walking a circuit of Dubrovnik's city walls to exploring the labyrinthine streets of Split to savoring the food, wine, and breathtaking nature of the Dalmatian islands. The Rough Guide to Croatia offers practical, informed advice on how to enjoy everything from sea-kayaking and mountain hiking to sunbathing and swimming to the best in contemporary art, culture, and clubbing. Up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, hotels, shops, nightlife, and restaurants for all budgets, ensuring you have the most memorable trip imaginable. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Croatia.