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Missionary Monks: An Introduction to the History and ...
Edward L. SmitherIn fact, if we don't have monks in this period then we have very little in the way of Christian mission. Our aim in this book is to examine the phenomenon of missionary monks--those who pursued both a monastic and missionary calling.
The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: 'worldly ...
Sylvia FedericoSeveral other monks were sent away at the same time, and were then recalled by the new It 137 Clark, 'Thomas Walsingham Reconsidered', pp. 840–1. 138 On the relative privileges of graduate versus non-graduate monks at St Albans, see ...
Corporate Governance
Robert A. G. MonksMany thanks to Michael Lubrano and Teresa Barger of the GCGF and to the executives of 6. Embraer for permission to use this case study. “Tax Us If You Can: The True Story of a Global Failure,” The Tax Justice Network, 7. September 2005.
Executive compensation: backdating to the future : hearing ...
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinanceSee also Robert A.G. Monks 8c Nell Minow, Power and Accountability 170 (1991) (observing that executive overcompensation has a negadve effect on employee morale); Linda J. Barris, The Overcompensation Problem: A Collective ...
Lodging in Spain's Monasteries: Inexpensive Accommodations, ...
Eileen BarishThe only guides that direct travelers to monasteries where monks and abbesses embrace visitors and families for a vacation experience beyond tourism.
The Fifth Rule of Ten:
Gay HendricksThe big feature of the event will be the unveiling of a sacred sand-painted mandala that the monks will construct in the center of the temple.
At the premiere, however, a group of hooligans commit an outrageous act that catapults the ...
The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life
Giorgio AgambenThe book reconstructs in detail the life of the monks with their obsessive attention to temporal articulation and to the Rule, to ascetic techniques and to liturgy.
Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms
Shayne Neil ClarkeThis is a study based on difficult primary sources of Indian Buddhist monks and nuns and their families.
The Shadow Stealers
Tracey WestWhen Hiro's mother and older brothers fall unconscious, the young ninja-in-training takes the Amulet of the Moon and sets out for the monastery of the Monks of the Dusk with his friends Ayo and Yoshi, and their teacher Mr. Sato, to seek ...
Buddhism in the Modern World: Adaptations of an Ancient ...
Previewstanding outside the canonical texts,” could only be arrived at by a consensual agreement of the monks (called katikavata), Paul Numrich describes the process as a “paradoxical hermeneutic.”60 Numrich goes on to report that although the ...
Missionary Monks: An Introduction to the History and ...
Edward L. SmitherDavid Cashin, Victor Cuartas, Ruth Buchanan, Dayton Hartman, and Jerry Ireland, who gave helpful feedback on this manuscript. • My leadership at Columbia International University who value research and professional growth and have ...
Hindu Christian Faqir: Modern Monks, Global Christianity, ...
Timothy S. DobeAs A. Azfar Moin has shown, the very idioms of political sovereignty would, among the Mughals, come to be refashioned on the model of Sufi saints.117 Broadening our view beyond these rather rarified and elite realms, Richard Eaton and ...
Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century ...
Kamala TiyavanichCombining interviews and biographies with archive materials and ephemeral popular literature, this text documents the monastic lives of three generations of forest-dwelling ascetics and challenges the stereotype of Thai Buddhism.
Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia
Eric. CooperThe design of this complex suggests that it was not constituted of split-class monks like at Yusuf Koç. But the church, Geyikli Kilise (also commonly called Gök Kilise), probably served dual purposes. It has two naves, which are more physically ...
Theologia Crucis in Asia: Asian Christian Views on Suffering ...
Andreas Anangguru YewangoeAccording to Hee-Sung Keel, the introduction of Buddhism into these three kingdoms produced a host of novel religious and cultural phenomena. There was , says Keel, a clear demarcation between the monks and the rest of the people; the ...
The Quest for the City : A.D. 740 to 1100 : Pursuing the ...
Ted ByfieldCOVER: This painting by Dale Shuttleworth of Alberta, Canada, depicts a community of twelfth-century monks gathered around their abbot who holds a crosier, symbolic of his office. Their undyed, whitish robes suggest the several reform ...
Measly Middle Ages
Terry DearyTravel back into the measly Middle Ages, where the world was full of wild women, mad monks, naughty knights and crazy kings and queens!
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
Gretel EhrlichThe stories of rice farmers, monks, and wanderers; of fishermen who drove their boats up the steep wall of the wave; and of an eighty-four-year-old geisha who survived the tsunami to hand down a song that only she still remembered are both ...
Imagining Nanyue : a Religious History of the Southern ...
James RobsonAlthough some literary historians, such as Jo-shui Chen, Jennings Mason Gentzler and William Nienhauser, have touched on Liu Zongyuan's Buddhist contacts, his numerous stele inscriptions for Buddhist monks have remained largely ...
Monks and monarchs, kinship and kingship: Tanqian in Sui ...
Jinhua ChenTwo aspects of the legacy of Buddhist monk Tanquian (542-607), who lived in China under the Sui dynasty, are analyzed in detail: the relic-veneration movement that he orchestrated at the beginning of the seventh century, and the national ...
Dragon's Wine and Angel's Bread: The Teaching of Evagrius ...
Evagrius (Ponticus)"Evagrius Ponticus (343-399 AD), an influential writer among the early Christian monks, spent sixteen years in the desert of Egypt, mostly at Kellia (the Cells).
Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian ...
PreviewSee Keyes, 'Death of Two Buddhist Saints' and Kamala Tiyavanich, Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1997), 43-45. See Gabaude, 'La triple crise,' 250-53. One exception I ...
The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry
Andrew SchellingThis unique collection brings us African Americans reading the Black diasporahrough the eyes of exiled Tibetan monks; Americans of Vietnamese and Tibetaneritage wrestling with the cultural norms of their parents or ancestors; Zennd Dada ...
A Taste of Heaven: A Guide to Food and Drink Made by Monks ...
Madeline ScherbBARROUX.ORG Lavender fields surround this abbey, which looks deceptively ancient but was built in modern times (in an unusual twist of fate, this contemporary abbey—which was funded with donations from a conservative wing of the ...
The North Carolina Historical Review
More editionsThe Monks by then were the parents of two daughters, aged twelve and four.45 Despite financial 89 Charles Hunter Hamlin, Ninety Bits of North Carolina Biography ([New Bern: Owen G. Dunn Company, 1946]), 101. See also Wilmington Post, ...
Buddhism in the Modern World : Adaptations of an Ancient ...
Previewstanding outside the canonical texts," could only be arrived at by a consensual agreement of the monks (called katikavatat, Paul Numrich describes the process as a "paradoxical hermeneutic."60 Numrich goes on to report that although the ...
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