Sisters in Solitude

1996-01-01 Religion

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Release : 1996-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Sisters in Solitude written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first English translation of the Tibetan and Chinese texts on monastic discipline for Buddhist nuns and presents a comparative study of the two texts. An important contribution for studies of women's history, feminist philosophy, women's studies, women in religion, and feminist ethics.

Sisters in Solitude

1996-11-01 Philosophy

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Release : 1996-11-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Sisters in Solitude written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 1996-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an investigation of the moral precepts and codes of everyday conduct by which ordained women regulated their lives. It takes as its basis the Bhikṣuṇī Prātimokṣa Sūtras of the Dharmagupta school, preserved in Chinese translation, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda school, preserved in Tibetan translation. For over two thousand years, Buddhist nuns have quietly embodied specific moral and spiritual values on their path to enlightenment. Contemplative communities offered women both an alternative lifestyle and an avenue for education. Numbering as many as one million at certain periods of history, they have exerted powerful, if often unacknowledged, influence on Asian societies. Sisters in Solitude documents the earliest recorded system of ethics formulated especially for women and presents the first English translations of the original texts. An essential sourcebook for studies on women's religious history and feminist ethics, it details the monastic guidelines that link Buddhist nuns of the different traditions. The texts it contains unite women of many cultures.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

2022-10-11 Fiction

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Release : 2022-10-11
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez. This book was released on 2022-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Sisters In Solitude

1997 Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Release : 1997
Genre : Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women
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Book Rating : 415/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sisters In Solitude written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents The Earliest Recorded System Of Ethics Formulated Especially For Women - Presents The First English Translations Of Thr Original Texts - Details The Monastic Guidelines That Links Buddhist Nuns Of The Different Traditions. 5 Chapters - Notes - Glossary - Bibliography - Index.

Solitude

2015-12-15 Philosophy

Author : Philip Koch
Release : 2015-12-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 467/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Solitude written by Philip Koch. This book was released on 2015-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Koch's Solitude, both solitude and engagement emerge as primary modes of human experience, equally essential for human completion. This work draws upon the vast corpus of literary reflections on solitude, especially Lao Tze, Sappho, Plotinus, Augustine, Petrarch, Montaigne, Goethe, Shelley, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Proust. "Koch uses the work of philosophers, historians, and writers, as well as texts such as the Bible, to show what solitude is and isn't, and what being alone can do to and for the individual. Interesting for its literary scope and its conclusions about all the good true solitude can bring us." —Booklist "Reading this book is like dipping into many minds, fierce and gentle. The author reveals his long study of great philosophers, and interprets their thoughts through the lens of his own experience with solitude. He traces our early brushes with solitude and the fear it can engender, then the craving for solitude that comes with full, adult lives." —NAPRA Review

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