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L’histoire du bouddhisme depuis ses origines jusqu’à son déclin en Inde: n/a
by Tobias Lanslor Willem Brownstok Yuri GalbinstL’histoire du bouddhisme peut être suivie au VIème siècle av. J. -C. Le bouddhisme trouve son origine dans le Royaume Magadha (situé aujourd’hui à Bihar, en Inde) dans l’ancien Est de l’Inde et aux alentours, et son fondement se base sur la religion Siddhartha (Siddhārtha Gautama). La religion s’est propagée depuis le nord-est du sous-continent indien à travers l’Asie Centrale, l’Asie de l’Est et l’Asie de Sud-Est. À un certain moment, cela a affecté la majeure partie de l’Asie. En plus, le bouddhisme est caractérisé par de nombreux mouvements, des schismes et écoles, dont on mentionne Theravāda, pendant laquelle la période de développement est en contraste frappant avec l’expansion et la retraite des traditions.
Li Hung-Chang: His Life and Times
by Alicia Helen Neva LittleAlicia Little (1845–1926) was a prolific writer who moved to China after her marriage to missionary Archibald Little (1838–1907) in 1866. She published many accounts of Chinese culture and society before founding the successful campaign against foot-binding in 1895. This volume, first published in 1903, contains her biography of the eminent Chinese statesman Li Hung–Chang (1823–1901). Li was a towering figure in late nineteenth century Chinese political life, exerting a profound influence over Chinese foreign policy and relations and overseeing China's development of western style industrialism until his dramatic fall from power following China's defeat in the 1894 Sino-Japanese War. Using contemporary newspaper accounts, eyewitness descriptions, and interviews with his contemporaries, Little describes Li's life chronologically, describing his rise to prominence following the Taiping Rebellion in 1851. This volume was the first extensive account of Li's life to be published in English.-Print ed.
Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China
by Joseph R. LevensonThe distinction between “history” and “value” is the ground of this penetrating work. Liang Ch’i-ch’ao began writing in the 1890’s, as one who was straining against his tradition intellectually, seeing value elsewhere, but still emotionally tied to it, held by his history. How history contrived such a tension, how its release in Liang went together with the release of Confucian China from life, is the grand subject.And in drawing the times out of Liang’s intellectual life, Mr. Levenson contributes much of more general interest—a new understanding of the concepts of anachronism, analogy, contemporaneity, the generation, historical relativism, historical context, cultural and national identity, personal identity, and the distinction (crucial to comprehension of why ideas ever change) between “thinking” and “thought.”“A brilliant study of the life and work of an exceptional writer who shaped the political thought of modern China…Told with a humanist understanding far removed from the dry-as-dust manner usually ascribed to front-rank historians…this detailed account of a maker of modern China will interest not only the scholar in Far Eastern affairs, but will hold enthralled all students of the human mind in its never-ending quest for adjustment in a world of change.”—Asia Major“Why was the Confucian tradition found wanting? Why was westernization rejected? Why was Nationalism not enough for China? To these and many similar questions Liang’s life and writings provide the best answer. Mr. Levenson has interpreted them with real insight into the nature of Chinese civilization.”—Times Literary Supplement“Advances enough brilliant and challenging hypotheses to invigorate studies of Chinese intellectual history for a long time to come….[Levenson’s study] shows throughout a compassionate understanding of the harsh dilemmas, the bitter tragedies that the last century has brought to all Chinese.”—Arthur F. Wright
Liar's Winter: An Appalachian Novel
by Cindy K. SprolesLochiel Ogle was born with a red-wine birthmark--and it put her life in jeopardy from the moment she entered the world. Mountain folks called it "the mark of the devil," and for all the evil that has plagued her nineteen-year existence, Lochiel is ready to believe that is true. And the evil surely took control of the mind of the boy who stole her as an infant, bringing her home for his mother to raise.Abused and abandoned by the only people she knows as family, Lochiel is rescued by a peddler and given the first glimpse of love she has ever known. The truth of her past is gradually revealed as is the fact that she is still hunted by a brother driven to see her dead. Unsure if there's anyone she can truly trust, Lochiel is faced with a series of choices: Will she continue to run for escape or will she face her past and accept the heartbreaking secrets it reveals? Which will truly free her?Set in the wild and beautiful Appalachian Mountains of nineteenth-century East Tennessee, Liar's Winter is an unflinching yet inspirational exploration of prejudice and choice.
Libanius the Sophist: Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century
by Raffaella CribioreLibanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. In this book, Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius’s vast literary output—including 64 orations, 1,544 letters, and exercises for his students—to offer the fullest intellectual portrait yet of this remarkable figure whom John Chrystostom called “the sophist of the city."Libanius (314–ca. 393) lived at a time when Christianity was celebrating its triumph but paganism tried to resist. Although himself a pagan, Libanius cultivated friendships within Antioch’s Christian community and taught leaders of the Church including Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea. Cribiore calls him a “gray pagan” who did not share the fanaticism of the Emperor Julian. Cribiore considers the role that a major intellectual of Libanius’s caliber played in this religiously diverse society and culture. When he wrote a letter or delivered an oration, who was he addressing and what did he hope to accomplish? One thing that stands out in Libanius’s speeches is the startling amount of invective against his enemies. How common was character assassination of this sort? What was the subtext to these speeches and how would they have been received? Adapted from the Townsend Lectures that Cribiore delivered at Cornell University in 2010, this book brilliantly restores Libanius to his rightful place in the rich and culturally complex world of Late Antiquity.
Libby's Story
by Judy BaerA quiet, dark-haired beauty, tenderhearted, fiercely loyal, and single, Libby Morrison is consumed with caring for her aging parents. Handsome, sensitive, angry, and alone, Reese Reynolds is immersed in sell-pity from a gunshot that has left him paralyzed. A chance encounter begins their unlikely and unpredictable story. Along the way, Libby's childhood friends, Jenny and Tia, help her learn that true love overcomes enormous obstacles.
La Liberación de los Sufrimientos
by Dada BhagwanSi una persona sufre, es a causa de sus propios errores. Si una persona es feliz es por el premio de sus buenas obras. Pero la ley del mundo acusa al “nimit” (el hacedor aparente, la persona que inflige el sufrimiento).La ley Divina pilla al verdadero culpable. Esta ley es exacta y nadie puede cambiarla. No hay ley en este mundo que pueda infligir sufrimiento a nadie, ni siquiera la ley del gobierno. Cada que vez que tenemos que soportar el sufrimiento, cuando no hay falta aparente de nuestra parte, nos sentimos heridos y nos preguntamos ¿por qué yo? ¿Dónde estoy equivocado? ¿De quién es la falta?¿Es la falta del ladrón o del que ha sido robado? Si quieres saber de quién es la falta en este mundo encuentra al que sufre. ¿Cuáles son las causas detrás de tu sufrimiento? Param Pujya Dadashri (Maestro de esta ciencia espiritual) nos ha dado la esencia de todas las escrituras y nos dice con exactitud como es la justicia de la naturaleza en este libro “La falta es del que sufre”
La Liberacion De Las Preocupaciones
by Dada BhagwanEl trabajo se echa a perder con las preocupaciones, esta es la ley de la naturaleza. La libertad de las preocupaciones mejora el rendimiento en el trabajo. Las personas mejor educadas y de mejor posición sufren de altos niveles de estrés y de preocupación. Comparativamente, los trabajadores no se procupan tanto y pueden dormir bien, mientras que sus jefes tienen que tomar pastillas para poder pasar la noche. Aquellos que se preocupan pierden su fortuna. Aquí tienen un pequeño ejemplo en las palabras del Param Pujya Dadashri (maestro de esta ciencia espiritual), con las cuales nos cuenta cómo él acabó con todas las preocupaciones que le daba su negocio. “Hubo una vez en que nuestra empresa tuvo una fuerte pérdida. Todo esto sucedió antes de que yo tuviera el Gnan (antes de la Realización del Ser). Cuando eso ocurrió no paraba de preocuparme y me quedaba despierto toda la noche. Pero, entonces recibí una respuesta de mi interior: “¿ a quién más le preocupaba en ese momento esa pérdida?” Sentí que mi socio no se preocupaba tanto como yo y me di cuenta que era el único que estaba de verdad preocupado.Aunque mi esposa e hijos eran todos socios del negocio, ellos tampoco sabían nada sobre el asunto.Incluso, en ese momento, todo iba bien para ellos a pesar de no saber nada sobre esto.Yo era el único tonto que se preocupa.Cuando los demás que son también mis socios no les preocupaba esto para nada ¿por qué iba yo a llevarme la peor parte? ¿Qué es la preocupación? Los pensamientos no son en si el problema.Es sólo cuando uno se implica emocionalmente en los pensamientos cuando surgen todas las preocupaciones. Uno puede dejar de procuparse si uno comprende el verdadero conocimiento de “quién es el hacedor”….seguir leyendo para ver cómo liberarse de las preocupaciones...
Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism: The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters
by Amanda IzzoReligiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's mobilizations centering on defense of the “traditional” family. In Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism, Amanda L. Izzo argues that, contrary to this view, liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics. Women have been at the forefront of such efforts. Focusing on the histories of two highly influential groups, the Young Women’s Christian Association of the USA, an interdenominational Protestant organization, and the Maryknoll Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious order, Izzo offers new perspectives on the contributions of these women to transnational social movements, women’s history, and religious studies, as she traces the connections between turn-of-the-century Christian women’s reform culture and liberal and left-wing religious social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Izzo suggests that shared ethical, theological, and institutional underpinnings can transcend denominational divides, and that strategies for social change often associated with secular feminism have ties to spiritually inspired social movements.
Liberal Judaism
by Eugene B. BorowitzAn acute and precise insight into history of the Jewish people from an early Semitic tribe to its place today as a force in America and throughout the world.
The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark
by Trae Crowder Drew Morgan Corey Ryan ForresterThe Liberal Rednecks--a three-man stand-up comedy group doing scathing political satire--celebrate all that's good about the South while leading the Redneck Revolution and standing proudly blue in a sea of red.Smart, hilarious, and incisive, the Liberal Rednecks confront outdated traditions and intolerant attitudes, tackling everything people think they know about the South--the good, the bad, the glorious, and the shameful--in a laugh-out-loud funny and lively manifesto for the rise of a New South. Home to some of the best music, athletes, soldiers, whiskey, waffles, and weather the country has to offer, the South has also been bathing in backward bathroom bills and other bigoted legislation that Trae Crowder has targeted in his Liberal Redneck videos, which have gone viral with over 50 million views. Perfect for fans of Stuff White People Like and I Am America (And So Can You), The Liberal Redneck Manifesto skewers political and religious hypocrisies in witty stories and hilarious graphics--such as the Ten Commandments of the New South--and much more! While celebrating the South as one of the richest sources of American culture, this entertaining book issues a wake-up call and a reminder that the South's problems and dreams aren't that far off from the rest of America's.
Liberal Religion: Progressive versions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Routledge Studies in Religion)
by Emanuel de KadtIn recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in religion and religious issues. Some have linked this to a neo-liberal form of individualism, while others noted that secularism has left people bereft of a humanly necessary link with the transcendent. The importance of identity issues has also been remarked upon. This book examines how liberal forms of religion are allowing people to engage with religion on their own terms, while also feeling part of something more universal. Looking at liberal approaches to the Abrahamic faiths – Judaism, Protestant and Roman Catholic Christianity and Islam – this book teases out how postmodern culture has shaped the way in which people engage with these religions. It also compares and contrasts how liberal thinking and theology have been expressed in each of the faiths examined, as well as the reactionary responses to its emergence. By considering how liberalism has influenced the narrative around the Abrahamic faiths, this book demonstrates how malleable faith and spirituality can be. As such, it will be of interest to scholars working in Religious Studies, Theology, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology.
Liberal Suppression: Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech
by Philip HamburgerIn the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These speech restrictions have seemed merely technical adjustments, which prevent the political use of a tax subsidy. But the cultural and legal realities are more disturbing. Tracing the history of American liberalism, including theological liberalism and its expression in nativism, Hamburger shows the centrality of turbulent popular anxieties about the Catholic Church and other potentially orthodox institutions. He argues persuasively that such theopolitical fears about the political speech of churches and related organizations underlay the adoption, in 1934 and 1954, of section 501(c)(3)’s speech limits. He thereby shows that the speech restrictions have been part of a broad majority assault on minority rights and that they are grossly unconstitutional. Along the way, Hamburger explores the role of the Ku Klux Klan and other nativist organizations, the development of American theology, and the cultural foundations of liberal “democratic” political theory. He also traces important legal developments such as the specialization of speech rights and the use of law to homogenize beliefs. Ultimately, he examines a wide range of contemporary speech restrictions and the growing shallowness of public life in America. His account is an unflinching look at the complex history of American liberalism and at the implications for speech, the diversity of belief, and the nation’s future.
A Liberal Theology for the Twenty-First Century: A Passion for Reason
by Michael J. LangfordLiberal theology, in its typical form, represents the attempt to approach religion from a rational perspective without denying or belittling the importance of religious experience and religious commitment. Versions of liberal theology can be found in all the great religions. This book is primarily concerned with a Christian tradition that goes back to the second century and reached a high point in the seventeenth. This tradition includes a method of inquiry which, when re-evaluated in the light of recent discussions on the nature of rationality and applied to contemporary issues, reveals that there are versions of materialism, monism and theism that can accord with rationality. While liberal theology cannot demonstrate the truth of theism, it can present it not only as one of the rational options, but as an option that has uniquely attractive characteristics, and when the liberal tradition is taken at its best, it can support a version of Christianity which continues to refer to God as a transcendent 'reality', and which can continue to support recognizable doctrines of incarnation, redemption and Trinity. The liberal theology introduced and advanced in this book can be contrasted with many recent 'radical theologies', and could be called 'liberal orthodoxy'. Students of philosophy, theology and religious studies, as well as clergy and interested lay readers, will find this an accessible insight into liberal theology and to current debates on materialism, atheism and inter-faith dialogue.
Liberalism and Human Suffering
by Asma AbbasThis book investigates the sources and implications of our encounters with suffering in contemporary politics and culture, exploring the forces that determine how suffering matters. It counters liberalism's distorting domestications of human suffering, which are most acute in its politics of redress through justice, the law, representation and inclusion. Radically rethinking the subjectivity of sufferers and arguing that our experience of the world is not prior to or outside of justice, but constitutive of it, the book recuperates a materialist politics that emphasizes sensuous activity, reclaims representation, and honors "the labor of suffering. ""
Liberalism’s Religion
by Cécile LabordeCécile Laborde argues that religion is more than a statement of belief or a moral code. It refers to comprehensive ways of life, theories of justice, modes of association, and vulnerable collective identities. By disaggregating these dimensions, she addresses questions about whether Western secularism and religion can be applied more universally.
Libéranos Del Mal: Cómo detener las influencias malignas que invaden su hogar y comunidad
by Cindy JacobsActualmente las influencias ocultistas desfilan libremente en nuestros alrededores. Desde las cartas de Pokémon, los programas y películas de vampiros y las líneas psíquicas, las naciones están siendo asediadas. Las creencias ocultistas--que se presentan como el camino al esclarecimiento y la paz--penetran en nuestra sociedad influenciando poderosamente a nuestros hijos, vecinos, gobiernos y hasta las iglesias.Cindy Jacobs revela el impacto mortal del dominio de Satanás sobre los medios (la televisión, el cine, la música, los juegos y los libros), lo que por ende refleja un aumento en la violencia e inmoralidad que infesta nuestra sociedad. Sin embargo, Cindy nos demuestra cómo a través de la oración, la guerra espiritual y la acción cívica podemos interrumpir los acercamientos destructivos del enemigo sobre nuestra tierra.
Libérase del temor
by Norman WrightMillones de personas luchan con el temor. En Libérese del temor, el doctor H. Norman Wright le ayudará a comprender sus temores y los efectos negativos que ellos tienen en su vida, también proporciona formas comprobadas de mantener sus pensamientos y sus sentimientos lejos del miedo y llevarlos hacia una vida de fe y de esperanza.Usted aprenderá técnicas prácticas y ejercicios para establecer un patrón de vida sin preocupación que le liberarán de las garras del temor en su vida. Si usted está luchando con temores físicos, tales como el miedo de volar, o temores emocionales, como el miedo al compromiso o al abandono, el doctor Wright, con su experiencia como consejero le enseñará cómo vencer la ansiedad.
Liberate del pasado y vive el presente
by Ana Mercedes Rueda Zapata¿Qué podemos aprender de los ángeles para liberarnos del pasado y vivir el presente? Este libro contiene todas las respuestas y las claves que le permitirán al lector perdonar y atraer a su presente lo que siempre ha soñado. ¿Cómo podemos vivir en el presente? y ¿cómo pueden ayudar los ángeles en este proceso? Estos son algunos de los cuestionamientos que la autora resuelve en este libro. Además, explica los principales obstáculos que le impiden a una persona soltar el pasado y perdonar a quienes le han hecho daño, así como los pasos a seguir para alcanzar una sanación emocional y espiritual.
Liberating Black Church History: Making It Plain
by Juan M. Floyd-ThomasNo serious scholar in biblical studies today can introduce students to his or her field without taking into account the contributions of African American scholarship. The long traditions of biblical interpretation in the Black Church, and the innovative research and writing performed by African American scholars in recent years are now essential components of a critical study of the Bible. Up to now, knowing how best to introduce the fruits of African American biblical scholarship to students has been difficult. Good resources exist, yet too often they are not written with the needs of introductory students in mind. This book meets that need by providing an overview of the most important developments in African American approaches to biblical scholarship. It offers insight into the particular ways that African American scholarship has shaped the world of biblical study.
Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual
by Tom F. DriverIn Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual, Tom F. Driver illuminates the making of ritual by removing it from its churchly wrappings and presenting it as something raw, basic, and central to all living beings. He examines the varied ways humans use ritual to give order to their lives, to deepen feelings of communal belonging, and to transform the status quo. Driver looks closely at how ritual, viewed as creative performance, is essential to religion and to the movement from bondage to freedom, whether in society or the individual. His analyses use examples drawn from a wide variety of cultures and religions -- Haiti, Korea, South Africa, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, and more, in addition to the author's own North American Protestantism. The result is an accessible and engaging discussion, ideal for introductions to religion, the psychology of religion, the sociology of religion, and studies in ritual and liturgy. Many general readers also will find the book fascinating because it makes explicit so many unspoken feelings about the human longing for rituals that 'work,' combining meaning with power.
Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes
by John Shelby SpongIn this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Bishop John Shelby Spong offers a compelling view of the Gospels as thoroughly Jewish texts. Spong powerfully argues that many of the key Gospel accounts of events in the life of Jesus--from the stories of his birth to his physical resurrection--are not literally true. He offers convincing evidence that the Gospels are a collection of Jewish midrashic stories written to convey the significance of Jesus. This remarkable discovery brings us closer to how Jesus was really understood in his day and should be in ours.
Liberation,: Flipping the Song Bird (New Approaches to Religion and Power)
by Becca WhitlaBecca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices. By way of this analysis, Whitla shows how congregational singing can embody liberating liturgy and theology. Through a series of interwoven theoretical lenses and methodological tools—including coloniality, mimicry, epistemic disobedience, hybridity, border thinking, and ethnomusicology—the author examines and interrogates a range of factors in the musical sphere. From beloved Victorian hymns to infectious Latin American coritos; congregational singing to radical union choirs; Christian complicity in coloniality to Indigenous ways of knowing, the dynamic praxis-based stance of the book is rooted in the author’s lived experiences and commitments and engages with detailed examples from sacred music and both liturgical and practical theology. Drawing on what she calls a syncopated liberating praxis, the author affirms the intercultural promise of communities of faith as a locus theologicus and a place for the in-breaking of the Holy Spirit.
Liberation from Samsara: Oral Instructions on the Preliminary Practices of Longchen Nyingthik
by Kyabjé Dodrupchen RinpochéIn Liberation from Samsara, the Fourth Kyabjé Dodrupchen Rinpoché presents the Longchen Nyingthik preliminary teachings, with a special focus on guru yoga. These teachings, from the innermost secret instruction of Dzogchen, constitute a complete path to enlightenment. Rinpoché&’s precious instruction begins with meditations on the common and uncommon preliminary practices, including the difficulty of obtaining a fortunate human birth; the impermanence of life; the implacability of karmic causes and results; samsaric suffering in the six realms; taking refuge; developing bodhichitta; purification by Vajrasattva recitation; and accumulating merits by mandala offerings. After discussing the ways to turn our mind toward Dharma and the trainings, Rinpoché provides guru yoga instruction as he turns to the main tantric practice: meditations on unifying one&’s mind with Guru Rinpoché&’s wisdom mind. This rare teaching by Rinpoché, though intentionally succinct to accommodate the needs of contemporary Western practitioners, presents a complete path to enlightenment. It contrasts three different paths to liberation: Shravakayana (the way of the disciple), Pratyekabuddhayana (the way of the self-enlightened buddha), and Mahayana (the way of the bodhisattva), which is our way, our boundless intention to seek refuge in order to free all sentient beings from samsaric suffering.
Liberation in One Lifetime
by Francis V. TisoMilarepa (1052-1135), a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and known as one of Tibet's greatest lamas and poets, continues to inspire Buddhist practitioners worldwide to the present day. Liberation in One Lifetime explores the history and spirituality of the Kagyu lineage in relationship to the narratives and teachings attributed to Milarepa by studying some of the earliest versions of these materials. Offering a detailed analysis of the biographical material that has been written about Milarepa (who was also a student of Marpa, a major figure in the development of the Bka'-brgyud-pa school of Tibetan Buddhism), author, theologian, and well-respected Tibetan Buddhist scholar, Francis V. Tiso, describes the historical context of the tradition of hagiography (biography) in Buddhism and other spiritual traditions, and provides a history of Milarepa's influence in Tibet. Part One explains the tradition of composing stories about Milarepa's life and teachings (there have been many throughout the centuries) and includes outlines of the contents of some of them as well as an explanation of the oral versions that have been transmitted via oral epic songs and poems that Milarepa composed. Describing the spiritual components of Bka'-brgyud-pa, Part Two includes tantric practices, an outline for the path of liberation, definitions of "voidness," and the characteristics of fully enlightened Buddhahood. Part Three includes translated biographies and oral teachings of Milarepa (in poetic form) that are considered sacred texts. The book also includes a foreword by Roberto Vitali, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist scholar as well as an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.