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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"SUTRA"”.
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Dharmamegha Samadhi in the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.
… of the terminology employed within the Yoga Sutra provokes much academic debate. This dissertation aims to examine the meaning and use of the term dharmamegha samadhi within the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. This new exploration of these terms is prompted by Ranganathan’s (2008) idea that dharma …
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Fantasia Nirvana
… springs from writings within the Vimalakirti Sutra. It claims that all phenomena have no root or result, without its history and future. The Vimalakirti Sutra is a Buddhist text which centers on the Buddhist meditator, Vimalakirti. The text is highly influential in the enlightenment of …
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Formative
… around the Buddhist text entitled THE HEART SUTRA. The speaker navigates this sutra chant by writing about having it tattooed on his back, and explores breaking cycles of violence, abuse and depression. The work draws on the speakers personal experience as a practicing Buddhist, martial …
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敦煌初唐弥勒经变的发展及其意义 = The textual presentations of Maitreya in Dunhuang during the early Tang
… based either on the Ascending or Descending Sutra. But from the early Tang, these textual presentations observe a noticeable development. The contents of both the Ascending and Descending Sutras were depicted simultaneously in one single composition. No adequate explanations have been …
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Geothermal systems in the Chalk of the south east of England: methods of predicting thermal transport in a fractured aquifer
… proved that the United States Geological Survey SUTRA code could be used to construct a more detailed model of the aquifer. A thermal test was devised to collect hydrogeological and thermal data. This test, along with conventional site investigation techniques, was used at a site in central …
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Evaluación agronómica de siete variedades de yuca, (Manihot esculenta Crantz) en las condiciones del municipio de Nueva Guinea/Nicaragua 2002
… de Rama y Nueva Guinea (Algodón, Campeona, Sutra, Valencia, Pata de Paloma, Arbolito y Masaya). Se estableció el ensayo en un diseño de bloques completos al azar con tres repeticiones. El menor número de unidades nodales del tallo y mayor altura de orqueta favorece a los productores porque …
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The blue flame and the red flame : love and eroticism
… Wide Shut, Lolita, Exotica, The Lover and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love ). These films debate the issues of eroticism, love, taboo and obsession in different but illuminating ways, expand our understanding of heterosexuality and explore the relationship between the blue flame of love and the red …
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Shaping Religious and Cultural Aspiration: Engraved Sutras in Southwestern Shandong Province from the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 CE), China
… Qi period (550-577 CE), these carved Buddhist sutra texts and Buddha names were prevalent, and were carved directly onto the surfaces of numerous mountains in southwestern Shandong Province. The special focus of this study is on the Buddhist engravings at Mt. Hongding in Dongping, and at Mt. …
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The reshaped Buddhist cosmos: a study of the iconography of the main chamber of Cave 45, Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang
… Buddhist paradises as conveyed in the Lotus Sutra;. Pictorial and structural evidence found in the main shrine during my field research of the grotto, however, indicates that the initial ornament of this cave temple might have been left unfinished. Approximately a half-century later, work at …
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A subsurface water quality evaluation system for assessing NPS pollution potential by pesticides
… simulated by linking the other two models with SUTRA. An irregular shape finite element mesh generator was developed for fitting the irregular shape watershed boundary and reducing the number of nodes of the finite element mesh. Either transient or steady state flow and transport simulation …
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Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Southern Chesapeake Bay: Constraints From Numerical Models
… calculations solved by a USGS program called SUTRA. SUTRA’s hybrid finite element and finite difference method computes buoyancy-driven flow of variable-density groundwater, solves the coupled solute transport equation, and predicts areas of discharge and recharge across the nearshore coastal …
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EXPERIMENT IN SYNCRETISM: CH'I-SUNG (1007-1072) AND ELEVENTH-CENTURY CHINESE BUDDHISM (NORTHERN SUNG, CH'AN).
… as well as his advocacy of the "Platform Sutra School." Finally, this section discusses his syncretic views of the three teachings, his use of the three teachings as an integral system to interpret Confucianism and defend Buddhism, and his accomplishment in formulating and theorizing …
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Quaerere Sententias I
… scrape of swords, and a reading of the Fudō-myōō sutra, creating a soundscape to parallel Musashi’s blend of Zen spirituality with merciless violence. Elements of taiko performance are also influential— particularly oroshi, a gesture in which the interval between events is reduced over time.
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Yoga practice in 21st century Britain: The lived experience of yoga practitioners
… four self development models: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra; Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs; Dreyfus/Merleau-Ponty’s Skill Acquisition model and The Ten Oxherding Pictures of Zen Buddhism. Lastly, the value of yoga for public health was explored using the anthropological idea of dis-ease. This study …