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A thought-provoking collection of essays on Buddhist ethics by some
of the leading thinkers in the field. The reader is provided with
engaging explorations of central issues in Buddhist ethics,
insightful analyses of the ways Buddhist ethical principles are
being applied today in both Asian and Western countries, and
groundbreaking proposals about how Buddhist perspectives might
inform debates on some of the core ethical issues of the modern
world, including consumerism, globalization, environmental
problems, war, ethnic conflict, and inter-religious tensions. The
leading figure in identifying the field of Buddhist ethics and
articulating some of its core issues is Professor Damien Keown of
the University of London. This book brings together a group of
eminent scholars who have all been influenced by Keown's work, and
who are also friends and close colleagues. The result is a
wonderful volume for those who are struggling with practical issues
of ethical concern. This will be a valuable resource in the study
of ethics for years to come.
Tibet is a land bounded by the world s highest mountains, and it is
the repository of an ancient culture. For centuries it was viewed
by Europeans as a remote, mystical place populated by Buddhist
masters with supernatural powers and profound wisdom. In contrast
to this image, it was once a warlike country whose expansionist
rulers conquered a vast empire that incorporated much of central
Asia and parts of China. Even now the Tibetan Plateau remains a
scene of contestation, both ideologically and militarily. Major
popular uprisings in 1959, 1988, and 2008 have drawn the attention
of the world s media, and its religious teachers often attract
large crowds when they travel overseas. The situation in the
country remains highly volatile today, as the 2008 uprising the
largest and most widespread in the history of the region attests.
The Historical Dictionary of Tibet is the most comprehensive
dictionary published to date on Tibetan history. It covers the
history of Tibet from 27,000 BCE to the present through a
chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and
over 1,000 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important
personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion,
culture, anthropology, and sociology. This book is an excellent
access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know
more about Tibet."
In this unique city, it's less "Welcome to Boston" and more welcome
Boston to you. From street names to driving customs to weather,
nothing is as it is wherever you call home, and the locals are
proud of it. Boston writer, John Powers, turned his experience of
living in Boston for over fifty years into this fun yet practical
guide which brings visitors into the real Boston. Fresh with Peter
Wallace's animated illustrations, The Boston Handbook gives the
inside scoop on everything from transportation to cuisine to
architecture to weather. From front to back, there are tips on how
to navigate the city (the West End doesn't exist), how to
understand Bostonians (Harvard Yard is Hahvid Yahd, and no, you're
the one with the accent), and how and why Boston has always been
ahead of the rest of the USA
The Buddhist World joins a series of books on the world's great
religions and cultures, offering a lively and up-to-date survey of
Buddhist studies for students and scholars alike. It explores
regional varieties of Buddhism and core topics including
buddha-nature, ritual, and pilgrimage. In addition to historical
and geo-political views of Buddhism, the volume features thematic
chapters on philosophical concepts such as ethics, as well as
social constructs and categories such as community and family. The
book also addresses lived Buddhism in its many forms, examining the
ways in which modernity is reshaping traditional structures,
ancient doctrines, and cosmological beliefs.
The Buddhist World joins a series of books on the world's great
religions and cultures, offering a lively and up-to-date survey of
Buddhist studies for students and scholars alike. It explores
regional varieties of Buddhism and core topics including
buddha-nature, ritual, and pilgrimage. In addition to historical
and geo-political views of Buddhism, the volume features thematic
chapters on philosophical concepts such as ethics, as well as
social constructs and categories such as community and family. The
book also addresses lived Buddhism in its many forms, examining the
ways in which modernity is reshaping traditional structures,
ancient doctrines, and cosmological beliefs.
As the pace of economic change seems to only quicken, including
rapid technological advance, today's advanced economies face
uncertainty from a number of directions, most of which have the
potential to change established modes of thinking and the
institutional arrangements that underpin basic economic
organization. Labor-saving technological advances are accompanied
by risks to jobs due to automation. Work is being made more
insecure for a wide variety of workers and skill levels because of
shifting capital-labor relationships. Regulatory systems are
scrambling to adapt to new technologies in infrastructure planning
or to the classification of workers under rapidly proliferating
"alternative work arrangements." Even the ties that bind groups of
countries together in often long-standing bilateral and
multilateral trade relationships are increasingly under strain with
the rise of populist economic nationalism in some of the world's
largest economies. Crucial changes are taking place that risk
eroding structures of opportunity, as well as public confidence in
the institutions charged with economic policy making in many
countries. The expert views contained in this book will be valuable
to the reader studying or working on the many overlapping issues of
economy, technology, and society and thus looking for insights into
some of the most pertinent topics in today's advanced economies.
Taking a multidimensional view, this book synthesizes the main
issues and dilemmas facing the economy of the future, seeks to
frame the trade-offs in policy terms, while also advancing the
discussion towards recommendations and solutions. It focuses on the
intersection of work, technology, society, infrastructure, and the
economic role of government. In this way, the book is centered on
some of the most tangible areas of economic structure that
reproduce the gains of growth, but it also addresses matters
related to the distribution effects and measures that can produce
more inclusive and productive outcomes, including the fundamental
role of policy and regulation.
As the pace of economic change seems to only quicken, including
rapid technological advance, today's advanced economies face
uncertainty from a number of directions, most of which have the
potential to change established modes of thinking and the
institutional arrangements that underpin basic economic
organization. Labor-saving technological advances are accompanied
by risks to jobs due to automation. Work is being made more
insecure for a wide variety of workers and skill levels because of
shifting capital-labor relationships. Regulatory systems are
scrambling to adapt to new technologies in infrastructure planning
or to the classification of workers under rapidly proliferating
"alternative work arrangements." Even the ties that bind groups of
countries together in often long-standing bilateral and
multilateral trade relationships are increasingly under strain with
the rise of populist economic nationalism in some of the world's
largest economies. Crucial changes are taking place that risk
eroding structures of opportunity, as well as public confidence in
the institutions charged with economic policy making in many
countries. The expert views contained in this book will be valuable
to the reader studying or working on the many overlapping issues of
economy, technology, and society and thus looking for insights into
some of the most pertinent topics in today's advanced economies.
Taking a multidimensional view, this book synthesizes the main
issues and dilemmas facing the economy of the future, seeks to
frame the trade-offs in policy terms, while also advancing the
discussion towards recommendations and solutions. It focuses on the
intersection of work, technology, society, infrastructure, and the
economic role of government. In this way, the book is centered on
some of the most tangible areas of economic structure that
reproduce the gains of growth, but it also addresses matters
related to the distribution effects and measures that can produce
more inclusive and productive outcomes, including the fundamental
role of policy and regulation.
The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film
laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge
media technologies that provided the infrastructure for
experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact.
Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how
the avant-garde embraced these material resources and invested them
with meanings and values adjacent to those of semiprofessional film
culture. By reasserting the physicality of the body in making
time-lapse and kinesthetic sequences with the Bolex, filmmakers
conversed with other art forms and integrated broader spheres of
humanistic and scientific inquiry into their artistic process.
Drawing from the photographic qualities of stocks such as Tri-X and
Kodachrome, they discovered pliant metaphors that allowed them to
connect their artistic practice to metaphysics, spiritualism, and
Hollywood excess. By framing film labs as mystical or adversarial,
they cultivated an oppositionality that valorized control over the
artistic process. And by using the optical printer as a tool for
excavating latent meaning out of found footage, they posited the
reworking of images as fundamental to the exploration of personal
and cultural identity. Providing a wealth of new detail about the
making of canonized avant-garde classics by such luminaries as
Carolee Schneemann, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage, as well as
rediscovering works from overlooked artists such as Chick Strand,
Amy Halpern, and Gunvor Nelson, Technology and the Making of
Experimental Film Culture uses technology as a lens for examining
the process of making: where ideas come from, how they are put into
practice, and how arguments about those ideas foster cultural and
artistic commitments and communities.
This new edition of Scriptures of the World's Religions uses
selections from scriptures to examine the world's religions. It
emphasizes religions that are practiced today and features English
translations that are accessible to the layperson. This edition
examines the collected sacred texts revered by these religions
themselves. There are special benefits to exploring the world's
religions through selections from their scriptures. In most cases,
the sacred texts are the oldest written documents in the tradition,
and we gain a sense of immediate connection with these religions by
studying the same documents that followers have been reading for
millennia.
The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film
laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge
media technologies that provided the infrastructure for
experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact.
Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how
the avant-garde embraced these material resources and invested them
with meanings and values adjacent to those of semiprofessional film
culture. By reasserting the physicality of the body in making
time-lapse and kinesthetic sequences with the Bolex, filmmakers
conversed with other art forms and integrated broader spheres of
humanistic and scientific inquiry into their artistic process.
Drawing from the photographic qualities of stocks such as Tri-X and
Kodachrome, they discovered pliant metaphors that allowed them to
connect their artistic practice to metaphysics, spiritualism, and
Hollywood excess. By framing film labs as mystical or adversarial,
they cultivated an oppositionality that valorized control over the
artistic process. And by using the optical printer as a tool for
excavating latent meaning out of found footage, they posited the
reworking of images as fundamental to the exploration of personal
and cultural identity. Providing a wealth of new detail about the
making of canonized avant-garde classics by such luminaries as
Carolee Schneemann, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage, as well as
rediscovering works from overlooked artists such as Chick Strand,
Amy Halpern, and Gunvor Nelson, Technology and the Making of
Experimental Film Culture uses technology as a lens for examining
the process of making: where ideas come from, how they are put into
practice, and how arguments about those ideas foster cultural and
artistic commitments and communities.
Historical Dictionary of Tibet, Second Edition is a comprehensive
resource for Tibetan history, politics, religion, major figures,
prehistory and paleontology, with a primary emphasis on the modern
period. It also covers the surrounding areas influenced by Tibetan
religion and culture, including India, China, Nepal, Bhutan,
Central Asia, and Russia. It contains a chronology, a glossary, an
introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section
has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as
well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign
relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent
resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more
about Tibet.
Investigation of the Percept is a short (eight verses and a three
page autocommentary) work that focuses on issues of perception and
epistemology. Its author, Dignaga, was one of the most influential
figures in the Indian Buddhist epistemological tradition, and his
ideas had a profound and wide-ranging impact in India, Tibet, and
China. The work inspired more than twenty commentaries throughout
East Asia and three in Tibet, the most recent in 2014. This book is
the first of its kind in Buddhist studies: a comprehensive history
of a text and its commentarial tradition. The volume editors
translate the root text and commentary, along with Indian and
Tibetan commentaries, providing detailed analyses of the
commentarial innovations of each author, as well as critically
edited versions of all texts and extant Sanskrit fragments of
passages. The team-based approach made it possible to study and
translate a corpus of treatises in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese
and to employ the methods of critical philology and cross-cultural
philosophy to provide readers with a rich collection of studies and
translations, along with detailed philosophical analyses that open
up the intriguing implications of Dignaga's thought and demonstrate
the diversity of commentarial approaches to his text. This rich
text has inspired some of the greatest minds in India and Tibet. It
explores some of the key issues of Buddhist epistemology: the
relationship between minds and their percepts, the problems of
idealism and realism, and error and misperception.
The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of
China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway
opinion within the country and abroad. The narrative they create is
at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading, but,
John Powers argues, it is widely believed by Han Chinese. Most of
China's leaders appear to deeply believe the official line
regarding Tibet, which resonates with Han notions of themselves as
China's most advanced nationality and as a benevolent race that
liberates and culturally uplifts minority peoples. This in turn
profoundly affects how the leadership interacts with their
counterparts in other countries. Powers's study focuses in
particular on the government's "patriotic education" campaign-an
initiative that forces monks and nuns to participate in propaganda
sessions and repeat official dogma. Powers contextualizes this
within a larger campaign to transform China's religions into
"patriotic" systems that endorse Communist Party policies. This
book offers a powerful, comprehensive examination of this ongoing
phenomenon, how it works and how Tibetans resist it.
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