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Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion

Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion

Thomas A. TWEED

As Morten Schlütter notes in his brief but helpful overview, the Japanese pronunciation of the term kōan, which is an administrative and legal term meaning “public case,” has become standard in English usage, and I follow that practice here, ...
Fetishizing Tradition: Desire and Reinvention in Buddhist ...

Fetishizing Tradition: Desire and Reinvention in Buddhist ...

Alan Cole

Recently Stephen F. Teiser and Morten Schlütter published a collection of useful of essays, Readings of the Platform Sūtra. Another important study is John Jorgensen, Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in ...
Zen Masters

Zen Masters

Steven Heine

Morten Schlütter, How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008); and Ishii Shūdō, Sōdai Zenshūshi no kenkyū: Chūgoku ...
A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: ...

A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: ...

Jennifer Eichman

38 Morten Schlütter argues that what distinguishes Zhuhong's teaching of Pure- Landthemed critical phrases is the incorporation of oral recitation. However, although nianfo is used at this time primarily to mean oral recitation of the name,  ...
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the ...

The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the ...

Philip Yampolsky

... Buddhism. This new edition features a foreword by Morten Schlütter further situating the Platform Sutra within recent historical research and textual evidence, and an updated glossary that includes the modern pinyin system of transcription.
The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts

The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts

Dale S. Wright

Morten Schlütter A wealth of Chinese Buddhist writing appeared in the Song dynasty (960–1279). As private and commercial printers increasingly proliferated throughout the Song era, printed texts of different kinds came into circulation and  ...
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Steven Heine

See Morten Schlütter, How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009). T48:292c22–293a14. See Robert E. Buswell Jr., “The Transformation of Doubt ...
How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the ...

How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the ...

Morten Schlutter

Liu, Xinru. “Buddhist institutions in the Lower Yangtze Region during the Sung dynasty.” Bulletin of Sung-Yuan Studies 21 (1989): ... in Southern Sung China. Chicago: university of Chicago Press, 1971. mcKnight, Brian e., and James t. C. Liu.
Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue

Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue

Charles Youmans

... Morten Kristiansen, David Larkin, Stephen E. Hefling, Morten Solvik, Jim Zychowicz, and Walter Frisch. My colleagues at Penn State—Marica Tacconi, Mark Ferraguto, Maureen Carr, Taylor Greer, Eric McKee, Steve Hopkins, Tom Cody, and ...
Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack

Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack

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Dales, h p Macdonald's Recruiting Corps John F. Browne, 56 f J. A. Farquharson, 25 f G. Robertson, Canad. f ; R. Owen, ... Hamilton, 30 f F. de Schlutter, late of M. W. Lee, h p 96f K.G.L. - |J. French, h p 121 f David Martin, K.G.L.R. Lucas, hop  ...
The Gentleman and Citizen's Almanack ... for the Year of Our ...

The Gentleman and Citizen's Almanack ... for the Year of Our ...

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Neil M*Kellar, 1 f A. Mackenzie, York L. I. V. Wm. Gwyn, Insp. Field off. of Rec. District. Horace ... Janies Erskine, 48 f F. de Schlutter, late of M. W. Lee, h p 96f K.G.L. J. French, h p 121 f David Martin, K.G.L.R. Lucas, h p York R. Alex. Leith, 31 f ...
Developments in Customary International Law: Theory and the ...

Developments in Customary International Law: Theory and the ...

Birgit Schlütter

Building on an empirical analysis of the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice and the two "ad hoc" tribunals for ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda, this book sheds new light on the development of custom as a source of international ...
African guerrillas: raging against the machine

African guerrillas: raging against the machine

Morten Bøås

This is a major contribution to our understanding of the motives and circumstances behind some of the most brutal civil wars on the continent.René Lemarchand, University of FloridaA sophisticated and detailed treatment of contemporary ...
Radicalized: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West

Radicalized: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West

Peter R. Neumann

50 Cf. Jarret M. Brachman and Alix N. Levine, “You too can be Awlaki!”, The Fletcher Forum on World Affairs, 35(1) (2011), pp. 25–46. 51 Morten S. Hopperstad, “Norsk islamist (25) tiltalt etter skyteepisode i Oslo”, VGNyheter, 1 February 2015; ...
Democratic Citizenship and War

Democratic Citizenship and War

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Yoav Peled, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Guy Mundlak, Jean Cohen. McSoldiers or innovative professionals? Morten Ender ComplexPeaceOperations and Civil Military Relations Winning the peace Robert Egnell Strategyand theAmerican Warof ...
U.S. Security Cooperation with Africa: Political and Policy ...

U.S. Security Cooperation with Africa: Political and Policy ...

Robert J. Griffiths

... Relations Edited by Marc Herzog and Philip Robins The Politics of Conflict Economies Miners, Merchants and Warriors in the African Borderland Morten Bøås 119 Exercising Human Rights Gender, Agency, and Practice Robin Redhead.
Performing Salome, Revealing Stories

Performing Salome, Revealing Stories

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76 Morten Kristiansen, 'Strauss's road to operatic success: Guntram, Feuersnot, and Salome', in Charles Youmans (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss (Cambridge and New York, 2010), pp. 105–18, p. 116. 77 Carolyn ...
Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast

Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast

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Susanne Kerner, Cynthia Chou, Morten Warmind. Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY  ...
Nonlinear H [infinity] control: the singular case

Nonlinear H [infinity] control: the singular case

W. C. A. Maas

Henk Nijmeijer I thank for sparking my interest in nonlinear control theory. Many thanks also to Morten Dalsmo, Harry Trentelman and Carsten Scherer for there contributions to this monograph. Nieuwegein, Oktober 1996, Aloys Maas Contents ...
Profits, Security, and Human Rights in Developing Countries: ...

Profits, Security, and Human Rights in Developing Countries: ...

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... Politics of Conflict Economies Miners, merchants and warriors in the African borderland Morten Bøås 119 Exercising Human Rights Gender, agency, and practice Robin Redhead 120 State Responses to International Law Who complies?
New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific ...

New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific ...

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Nielssen, Hilde, Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karina Hestad Skeie Skeie (eds). 2011. Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Leiden: Brill. Pedersen, Morten A. 2011. Not Quite Shamans: Spirit ...
Civilian Or Military Power?: European Foreign Policy in ...

Civilian Or Military Power?: European Foreign Policy in ...

Helene Sjursen

... thanks to Knud Erik Jørgensen, Morten Kelstrup, Ian Manners, Srdjan Vucetic, Alex Wendt, Børge Romsloe, and participants in the CIDEL Workshop, Oslo, Norway, October 2004. I am especially grateful to Helene Sjursen both for inviting me ...
The Making of Shareholder Welfare Society: A Study in ...

The Making of Shareholder Welfare Society: A Study in ...

Alexander Styhre

1 Corporate Governance Around the World Ahmed Naciri 2 Behaviour and Rationality in Corporate Governance Oliver Marnet 3 The Value Creating Board Corporate Governance and Organizational Behaviour Edited by Morten Huse 4 ...
Internal and External Aspects of Corporate Governance

Internal and External Aspects of Corporate Governance

Ahmed Naciri

Behaviour and Rationality in Corporate Governance Oliver Marnet 3. The Value Creating Board Corporate Governance and Organizational Behaviour Edited by Morten Huse 4. Corporate Governance and Resource Security in China The ...
Corporate Governance and Initial Public Offerings: An ...

Corporate Governance and Initial Public Offerings: An ...

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An International Perspective Alessandro Zattoni (Prof.), William Judge. Judge, William, D. Brian McNatt and ... Minichilli, Alessandro, Alessandro Zattoni, Sabina Nielsen and Morten Huse. 2011. Board task performance: An exploration of ...
Gyldendals danske filmguide

Gyldendals danske filmguide

Morten Piil

Monty fremhæver dog Jesper Langberg, »der snart fortjener at få en god rolle«. Helle Hertz ses som kunstnernes muse, Judy Gringer som deres fantasifulde agent. Instr.: Ebbe Langberg. Manus.: Peer Guldbrandsen frit eft. Mark Twains ...
Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

Geological Survey of Great Britain

W. Hobmnn B. 8: H. Nichols John Thomson William H.ulchison Benjamin Looker Thos. Alcock Mr. Morten - Mr. Box \Vm. Mears W. Vaughan, Esq. Mr. Fullix - Stone and Swallow Benjamin Looker Mr. Potier Mr. Davis . о ВгЁсКЧ. Do. Do. Red ...
Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories

Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories

Junie Estelle Stewart King

Wit: William Watson, John Mc- Coll, Admr., George Taylor, F. Morten, L. Burbridge . WHITE, JONA. Nov. 14, 1802. — — . Vfife: Blizabeth. Children: Francis, William, Richard, Daniel, Elizabeth, Polly, Nanny. Ext Wife. Wit: Andrew Hardy, Rawley ...
Sovereign Credit Rating: Questionable Methodologies

Sovereign Credit Rating: Questionable Methodologies

Ahmed Naciri

1 10 Corporate Governance Around the World Ahmed Naciri 2 Behaviour and Rationality in Corporate Governance Oliver Marnet 3 The Value Creating Board Corporate Governance and Organizational Behaviour Edited by Morten Huse 4 ...

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