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Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in ...

Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in ...

Grace Yen Shen

Shellen Wu has uncovered archival material in the Bundesarchiv in Berlin- Lichterfelde, which gives the German side of the story. According to this material, German authorities believed that Solger had been se- lected to direct a chinese ...
Studies in Ch'an and Hua-yen

Studies in Ch'an and Hua-yen

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LI T'UNG-HSUAN AND THE PRACTICAL DIMENSIONS OF HUA-YEN by Robert M. Gimello There is little doubt among modern scholars of the Hua-yen tradition of Buddhism that the once standard view of it as having consisted essentially in ...
The Buddha Mind, Universe, and Awakening -- A dialogue ...

The Buddha Mind, Universe, and Awakening -- A dialogue ...

Master Sheng Yen

A Dialoguebetween Master Sheng Yen and Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell Author: Venerable Chan Master Sheng Yen and Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell Translator: International Translation Office, Cultural Center, DDM Publisher: Sheng Yen ...
Encounters with Master Sheng Yen Ⅱ:

Encounters with Master Sheng Yen Ⅱ:

Venerable Guo Dong

Preface. Tosharewiththe public the thoughts and life experiences of DharmaDrumMountain founder Master Sheng Yen (also known as Shifu, meaning “Master”), the Sheng Yen Education Foundation embarked on a series of talks beginning in ...
Just Grace

Just Grace

Charise Mericle Harper

Don’t miss the Just Grace website www.justgracebooks.com with its superpower quiz, podcasts, excerpts, and downloads . . . or the other books in the Just Grace series: Still Just Grace, Just Grace Goes Green, Just Grace Walks the Dog, ...
God's Amazing Grace

God's Amazing Grace

Ellen Gould Harmon White

A compilation of daily readings that explore God's grace as shown to undeserving human beings, including the purpose of grace, the covenant of grace, the cost of grace, and the power of grace.
Wu Ming Exposes Ignorance -- A Dialogue between Master Sheng ...

Wu Ming Exposes Ignorance -- A Dialogue between Master Sheng ...

Master Sheng Yen

A Dialoguebetween Master Sheng Yen and Jet Li Author: Venerable Chan Master Sheng Yen and Jet Li Translator: Agnes Chow Editors: Kenneth Chow Jessica Chow Michael Connors ScottGregoryGloriaWong Joyce Wong Publisher: Sheng ...
Order and History

Order and History

Eric Voegelin

Ssu-maCh'ien reports on Tsou Yen: In Ch'i State . . . there was Tsou Yen who came after Mencius. Having observed that those who were possessed of countries were becoming increasingly licentious and incapable of appreciating moral ...
Things Pertaining to Bodhi: The Thirty-seven Aids to ...

Things Pertaining to Bodhi: The Thirty-seven Aids to ...

Sheng Yen

Master Sheng Yen’s down-to-earth teachings take the reader on a progression through each of the practices, illustrating how they relate to the reader’s own path toward enlightenment.
Redefining Nationalism in Modern China: Sino-American ...

Redefining Nationalism in Modern China: Sino-American ...

S. Shen

... of Chinese Public Opinion in the 21st Century S. Shen. Redefining Nationalism in Modern China Sino-American Relations and the Emergence of Chinese Public Opinion in the 21st Century Simon Shen © Simon Shen 2007 Softcover reprint ...
Breaking the Silence: Japan's Behavior in the Tokyo and ...

Breaking the Silence: Japan's Behavior in the Tokyo and ...

Mark E. Manyin

For descriptions of these reports, see Susumu Awanohan, "Many Losing as Yen Advances,'' 2 December 1 977 Far Eastern Economic Review, 67 ; and Takeshi Moriyama, "The Fracas over the Rising Yen: Have Business Leaders Been ...
Journey to Mount Shen

Journey to Mount Shen

Takeshi Maekawa

Chinmi will need more than strength and speed if he is to survive the perils of the long journey to Mount Shen and the merciless training of the Zen Master.
A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs

Adeline Yen Mah

In this poignant memoir the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah, provides a fascinating window into the history and cultural soul of China.
Bulletin: Chi K'an

Bulletin: Chi K'an

Chung yang yen chiu yüan. Hua hsüeh yen chiu so, Nan-kang, Formosa

... of Cyclopentadienyltricarbonylmolybdenum and Their Derivatives. The Crystal structure of Bis(methylcyclopentadienyltricarbonylmolybdenum)-a,a'-n-o-xylen See Lin ( # Hi ), Ling-Kang Liu ( gljggfaj ), Nien-Tzu Wang and Hui-Ying Wu The  ...
Master Sheng Yen:

Master Sheng Yen:

Dharma Drum Mountain

By the time of his death in February 2009, Chan Master Sheng Yen was recognized as a preeminent spiritual leader. A traditional master of Chinese Buddhism,he wasa lineagedescendant ofboththe Linjiand Caodongschools of Chan.For over ...
Bulletin: Chi K'an

Bulletin: Chi K'an

Chung yang yen chiu yüan. Hua hsüeh yen chiu so, Nan-kang, Formosa

Ta-shue Chou* and Yi-wen Huang Institute of Chemistry, Accidentia Sinica, Taipei, R.O.C. 3-Bromo-4-methoxysulfolane was obtained in high yield from 3-sul - folene upon treatment with bromine and silver nitrate in methanol. Subsequent ...
Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It

Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It

Grace Helbig

From the author of Grace's Guide and the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! comes an illustrated, tongue-in-cheek book about style that lampoons fashion and beauty guides while offering practical advice in her trademark sweet and ...
Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up

Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up

Grace Helbig

#1 New York Times Bestseller By the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! and the it’sGrace YouTube channel, comedian Grace Helbig offers an irreverent and illustrated guide to life for anyone faced with the challenge of growing up.
Subtle Wisdom: Understanding Suffering, Cultivating ...

Subtle Wisdom: Understanding Suffering, Cultivating ...

Master Sheng-Yen

Master Sheng-yen, a dharma descendant from the founders of Buddhism in China, considers the concepts of suffering, enlightenment, and compassion; provides a glossary of key terms; and briefly recaps the history of Buddhism in China.
An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975)

An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975)

Geremie Barmé

This comment about children being like friends is reminiscent of a passage in "A Biography of My Second Daughter, Qiongzhang" (Jinu Qiongzhang zhuan) by Shen Yixiu of the late Ming. Shen, who shared many of Qiongzhang's interests, ...
Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations

Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations

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(2006): 144455; Simon Shen, RedefiningNationalism in Modern China: Sina— American Relations in the Emergence ofChinese Public Opinion in the ZIst Century (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillian); Simon Shen, “(Holding Nationalist ...
Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-US Relations: Change and ...

Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-US Relations: Change and ...

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Change and Continuity, Causes and Cures Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Simon Shen ... Jean-Marc further would like to express his thanks to his co-editor, Dr Simon Shen, for being a cooperative partner on this edited book, our second! Finally, he  ...
Magnificent Grace: Savoring the Greatness of God

Magnificent Grace: Savoring the Greatness of God

Women of Faith

Magnificent Grace explores important Bible passages that describe the abundance and sufficiency of God's grace, and illuminates Bible characters who received and displayed God's grace.
Shattering the Great Doubt: The Chan Practice of Huatou

Shattering the Great Doubt: The Chan Practice of Huatou

Sheng Yen

Teachings: Chan Master Sheng Yen Oral Translation: Jimmy Yu (Guogu) Editing: Ernest Heau Editorial review: Jimmy Yu (Guogu) Transcription: Bruce Rickenbacher, Stacey Polacco Publication: Iris Wang part one expoSition of the huatou ...
Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700

Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700

Daria Berg

For contemporary records on Ye Xiaoluan's life, see Shen Yixiu 575544;, 'Ji nii Qiongzhang zhuan' $165515, WMTJ, 2014; Shen Zizheng $75 Eli, 'Ji sheng nii Qiongzhang wen' ¥r§§%§¥§fij, WM T J, 363—6. On Ye Xiaoluan, see RB, 390406; ...
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

Prudence Shen

Why not. Running away from home on Thanksgiving to illicitly enter a televised robot death match? Of course! In Faith Erin Hicks' and Prudence Shen's world of high school class warfare and robot death matches, Nothing can possibly go wrong.
The Experience and Language of Grace

The Experience and Language of Grace

Roger Haight

A new approach to the idea of grace. The author isolates certain common themes consistently present in the traditional language of grace and reinterprets them in terms of the concept of liberation.
The Enzymes

The Enzymes

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208. M. B. Hoagland and G. D. Novelli, JBC 207, 767 (1954). 209. J. Espada, JBC 237, 3577 (1962). 210. L. Shen and J. Preiss, JBC 240, 2334 (1965). 211. J. Espada, "Methods in Enzymology," Vol. 8, p. 259, 1966. 212. L. Shen and J. Preiss, ...
Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China

Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China

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Simon Shen, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard ... edited by Dennis Hickey and Baogang Guo Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations, edited by Simon Shen and Shaun Breslin M altidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China, ...
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist ...

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist ...

Laura Jane Grace

Tranny is the intimate story of Against Me!'s enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the band's history, as well as Grace's, with dozens of never-before-seen entries from the piles of journals Grace kept.

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