Colleagues and former students of Gregory Schopen honor his path-breaking contributions to Buddhist studies with these articles on the early Mahayana, the monastic codes, and Buddhism’s art-historical and epigraphical remains. This volume honors the profoundly transformative influence of Gregory Schopen’s many contributions to Buddhist studies. Eighteen articles by former stude...(展开全部)

This book contains essays written by eminent phenomenologists & scholars closely related to R. Bernet, a person and a philosopher (colleagues, friends and collaborators, former students). The intellectual and worldwide authority of R. Bernet's work is well represented by the list of contributors, as well as by the content of their chapters. In a sense, this volume is a good ind...(展开全部)

Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprints, traces, or ruins, writing is more than textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulati...(展开全部)

一行禅师 （Thich Nhat Hanh） 国际知名禅师、诗人、学者 1926年出生于越南，为越南临济法脉第四十二代传人。1967年，一行禅师被美国黑人民权领袖马丁·路德·金提名为当年诺贝尔和平奖候选人。1982年，在法国南部建立了“梅村”禅修道场，并经常赴世界各地弘法。 一行禅师通晓越、英、法及中文，迄今已出版佛学论述、诗集、小说、戏剧、传记等上百本著作，其中包括《正念的奇迹》、《观照的奇迹》、《心力》、《调心》、《与生命相约》、《你可以不生气》、《你可以不怕死》、《你可以，爱》、《生生基督世世佛》、《步步安乐行》。

The author, himself a Zen master, here unfolds an explanation of core Buddhist teachings such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. He makes these practices accessible to Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, showing how our very suffering can be the path to our liberation.

The unifying theme of these essays is Lord Acton's concept of liberty. Included are his two famous essays on the history of freedom (The History of Freedom in Antiquity; and The History of Freedom in Christianity) as are writings on the tradition of liberty in England, America, and Europe.

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873 – December 30, 1962) was an influential American philosopher and intellectual historian, who founded the field known as the history of ideas. Lovejoy was born in Berlin, Germany while his father was doing medical research there. Eighteen months later, his mother committed suicide, whereupon his father gave up medicine and became a clergym...(展开全部)

In the traditional model, business operates in an economic flow of inputs (resources and raw materials), outputs (products and services) and processes that help get you from one to the other (research and development, production, distribution).

GENERAL INTRODUCTION UNCOVERING THE STRUCTURE OF THE TEACHING Though his teaching is highly systematic, there is no single text that can be ascribed to the Buddha in which he defines the architecture of the Dhamma, the scaffolding upon which he has framed his specific expressions of the doctrine. In the course of his long ministry, the Buddha taught in different ways as determi...(展开全部)