Download or read book Ghost of the Keepers Monk written by J. Michael Blumer and published by Quails' Run Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost of the Keepers Monk is part legend, part mystery. It holds two of three mysterious stones that control all magic. The war lord, Califae controls the third and most powerful stone. He’s using its magic to help him conquer all of Amerath. Daran, a teenager who calls himself Rat Boy to shield his true identity, unravels the ghost’s secrets, and is “adopted” by intelligence in the Monk’s two stones. The stones control events and pit an unwilling Daran against Califae. The stones’ first task for Daran’s alternate identity is a rescue. There’s a problem. The princess he’s sent to rescue, despises Rat Boy but dreams of marring Daran, not knowing they’re the same person. When Daran tries to sort things out, the magic further complicates his life, manipulating him into a third identity and deeper into the politics of the growing war. Daran wants to resume his quiet life as Rat Boy, but the magic stones of Amerath have other plans for him.
Download or read book The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk written by Justin Thomas McDaniel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on representations of a famous ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to today, Justin Thomas McDaniel builds a case for interpreting modern Thai Buddhist practice through the movements of these transformative figures. He follows embodiments of the ghost and monk in a variety of genres and media, including biography, drama, ritual, art, liturgy, film, television, and the Internet. Sourcing nuns, monks, laypeople, and royalty, McDaniel shows how relations with these figures have been instrumental in crafting histories and modernities, particularly local conceptions of being "Buddhist," and the formation and transmission of such identities across different venues and technologies.
Download or read book Labyrinth of Souls written by J. Michael Blumer and published by Quails’ Run Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war with Califae has begun. The Bahrija Spirit Warriors capture Daran’s parents as they flee Califae and his men. Gilmer tries to tell Keelen who he really is. Before he can, Gilmer is shipwrecked, and Keelen is exposed as a spy and sent to face Califae. With the war growing, both Daran and Gilmer begin to feel the weight of expectations. The fate of Amerath and the outcome of war rests with them and their multiple personas.
Download or read book Amerath Companion written by J. Michael Blumer and published by Quails’ Run Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion to Amerath, Birth of Magic series. Glossary, image gallery, omitted chapters, sample chapters from Gabendoor series and more.
Download or read book Visions in the Fire written by J. Michael Blumer and published by J. Michael Blumer, Author. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Daran and Gilmer intertwine guided by the magic of the stones. War is immanent, and everyone is searching for the mysterious Rat Boy or his Friend Daran. Daran’s parents escape captivity and join in the search. Gilmer becomes a spy. Califae’s magic grows, adding to concern of the magic of Daran’s stones. While Daran is busy learning magic, Gilmer finds his own adventure. The magic of the stones gifts Gilmer two magic knives. Gilmer teams up with Bieber, a spy from the country of DeAris. Bieber has Gilmer masquerade as a distant nephew named Glendon when Bieber’s daughter, Keelen joins them. A strained romance grows between Keelen and Glendon, as Glendon helps her search for Gilmer. He doesn’t know how to tell her he is Gilmer. Daran’s parents escape Califae and with a small band of friends head south, further away from Daran. War grows.
Download or read book The Book of Broken Promises written by J. Michael Blumer and published by Quails' Run Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hillary and Windslow return to Gabendoor to save it from the wizard Gristle-tooth and his time-mists. His spirit is free, and his time-mists will end all life. Magic helps Hillary and Windslow dream-slip back to Gabendoor to battle the wizard Gristle-tooth and his assistant, Aghasta, for The Book of Broken Promises. No one understands the secrets in the book, or which promised to keep and which to break. One wrong choice and the Book will grant Gristle-tooth's promise to destroy everything. Join the Children of the Summer Wind on their second adventure in Gabendoor along with their three wizard friends and the Sallyforth triplets. Dream-slip across time and space to the world of Gabendoor. Continue the incredible saga that began in The Book of Second Chances.
Download or read book Secret of the Stones written by J. Michael Blumer and published by J. Michael Blumer, Author. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daran’s two identities complicate his life as both personalities become key figures in the growing threat of war. The magic maneuvers him into yet a third role as chief of the Jonquesha tribes. As war nears, all three of his identities are summoned to the same war council. Daran grows from young boy to young man along with his best friend Gilmer, as he waits for parents who never come. Gilmer wants adventure and botches an attempt to rescue Queen Abrienda’s daughters. He brings the princesses to Daran. Daran escapes the city with the girls, but they think he is the simple Rat Boy who works in the sewers. The princesses search for the head of the resistance troops. Separated from the girls, Daran is captured by the Jonquesha tribal people. Through his wits and a little magic help from the stones, he becomes their chief, and takes on yet a third identity and further complicates his life.
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Download or read book Ghosts of the New City written by Andrew Alan Johnson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to remake the city. For many Chiang Mai residents, new developments harbor the seeds of the crash, which manifest themselves in anxious stories of ghosts and criminals who conceal themselves behind the city’s progressive veneer. Hopes for rebirth and fears of decline have their roots in Thai conceptions of progress, which draw from Buddhist and animist ideas of power and sacrality. Cities, Johnson argues, were centers where the charismatic power of kings and animist spirits were grounded; these entities assured progress by imbuing the space with sacred power that would avert disaster. Johnson traces such magico-religious conceptions of potency and space from historical records through present-day popular religious practice and draws parallels between these and secular attempts at urban revitalization. Through a detailed ethnography of the contested ways in which academics, urban activists, spirit mediums, and architects seek to revitalize the flagging economy and infrastructure of Chiang Mai, Johnson finds that alongside the hope for progress there exists a discourse about urban ghosts, deadly construction sites, and the lurking anxiety of another possible crash, a discourse that calls into question history’s upward trajectory. In this way, Ghosts of the New City draws new connections between urban history and popular religion that have implications far beyond Southeast Asia.
Download or read book Managing Monks written by Jonathan A. Silk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk. It is well known that ideally Buddhist monks are expected to meditate and study -- to engage in religious practice. The institutional structure which makes this concentration on spiritual cultivation possible is the monastery. But as a bureaucratic institution, the monastery requires administrators to organize and manage its functions, to prepare quiet spots for meditation, to arrange audiences for sermons, or simply to make sure food, rooms, and bedding are provided. The valuations placed on such organizational roles were, however, a subject of considerable controversy among Indian Buddhist writers, with some considering them significantly less praiseworthy than meditative concentration or teaching and study, while others more highly appreciated their importance. Managing Monks, as the first major study of the administrative offices of Indian Buddhist monasticism and of those who hold them, explores literary sources, inscriptions and other materials in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese in order to explore this tension and paint a picture of the internal workings of the Buddhist monastic institution in India, highlighting the ambivalent and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward administrators revealed in various sources.
Download or read book The Fourteenth Dalai Lama s Stages of the Path Volume 2 written by Dalai Lama and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to Buddhism is knowing our own minds. Until we do, we are driven by unconscious, often destructive desire and aversion. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s Stages of the Path: An Annotated Commentary on the Fifth Dalai Lama's Oral Transmission of Mañjusri is the second volume of the Dalai Lama’s outline of Buddhist theory and practice. Having introduced Buddhist ideas in the context of modern society in volume one, the Dalai Lama turns here to a traditional presentation of the complete path to enlightenment, from developing faith in the Dharma to attaining the highest wisdom. This book, compiled by the revered Tibetan lama Dagyab Rinpoché, comments on the Fifth Dalai Lama’s stages of the path titled Oral Transmission of Mañjusri. The volume will appeal to all readers interested in the Dalai Lama’s works, both those new to Buddhism and those looking to deepen their understanding of the Tibetan presentation of the Buddhist path.
Download or read book A Treasury of Mah y na S tras written by Zhenji Zhang and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mah&_ratnak&_ta S&_tra is one of the five major sutra groups in the Mah&_y&_na canon. Of the two great schools of Buddhism, Mah&_y&_na has the greatest number of adherents worldwide&—it prevails among the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Tibetans, and Vietnamese&—and contains within it a number of movements, notably Zen, which have been of growing interest in the West in recent decades. Yet despite this increased attention and enormous following, translations of Mah&_y&_na scriptures have been scarce and fragmentary; clearly, a comprehensive translation of a major work within the canon was called for. This volume addresses that need. It contains 22 of the 49 S&_tras of the Mah&_ratnak&_ta (or &"Treasury&") S&_tra, many translated for the first time in a Western language, selected and arranged to give the modern reader a progressive introduction to one of the world's major religious traditions. Subjects covered include M&_y&_ and miracles, the teachings on Consciousness, Emptiness, and monastic discipline, the Mystical Light of the Tath&_gata, and the devotional practice of Pure Land, making this a comprehensive source book of Mah&_y&_na Buddhism hitherto unavailable in English. The book also includes an introduction to provide historical and interpretive guidance, annotations that assist in the comprehension of difficult passages, and an extensive glossary that will be valuable to specialist and layman alike. A team of scholars, working in Taiwan, spent eight years translating the Treasury's million words from Chinese, using Tibetan texts for comparison and checking each S&_tra with an international board of scholars. In the course of translating from the original, special effort was made to retain both the devotional style appropriate for religious reading and the precision required by the scholar, while presenting the material with a clarity and flow that would make it accessible to the Western layman. The editors then selected, arranged, and annotated the 22 S&_tras presented here. Published in cooperation with The Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions.
Download or read book Charming Divine Doctor written by Qing Chen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has just graduated from university and unexpectedly obtained a hundred years of cultivation. With the ancient medical arts, he is invincible within a hundred years. Who can stop him from picking up a girl, who dares to be his enemy?
Download or read book The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Sex Got Screwed Up The Ghosts that Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure Book One written by Jon Knowles and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghosts that haunt our sexual pleasure were born in the Stone Age. Sex and gender taboos were used by tribes to differentiate themselves from one another. These taboos filtered into the lives of Bronze and Iron Age men and women who lived in city-states and empires. For the early Christians, all sex play was turned into sin, instilled with guilt, and punished severely. With the invention of sin came the construction of women as subordinate beings to men. Despite the birth of romance in the late middle ages, Renaissance churches held inquisitions to seek out and destroy sex sinners, all of whom it saw as heretics. The Age of Reason saw the demise of these inquisitions. But, it was doctors who would take over the roles of priests and ministers as sex became defined by discourses of crime, degeneracy, and sickness. The middle of the 20th century saw these medical and religious teachings challenged for the first time as activists, such as Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger, sought to carve out a place for sexual freedom in society. However, strong opposition to their beliefs and the growing exploitation of sex by the media at the close of the century would ultimately shape 21st century sexual ambivalence. Book One of this two-part publication traces the history of sex from the Stone Age to the Enlightenment. Interspersed with ‘personal hauntings’ from his own life and the lives of friends and relatives, Knowles reveals how historical discourses of sex continue to haunt us today. This book is a page-turner in simple and plain language about ‘how sex got screwed up’ for millennia. For Knowles, if we know the history of sex, we can get over it.
Download or read book Knight s Penny Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghosts of the West Country written by Keith B. Poole and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
