Author: Sherry Garland
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152014834
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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A Vietnamese family is forced to flee from their homeland to escape a devastating civil war.

Author: Bu Xing Tian Xia
Publisher: Tapread
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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He was the youngest guru of martial arts as well as the perfect Mr. McDreamy of most girls. He had a mysterious absolute touch, clear-sighted observation ability, and various outstanding talents. But now, he was just an ordinary freshman at the University of Jiangjing Chinese Medicine, who wanted to learn Chinese Medicine, see patients, and get into a relationship with a girl in a low-key way. However, at a Mid-Autumn Festival party, he was forced to put on a performance, which shocked the whole audience. The shiny and wonderful university life began from then on. In the university, he met a beautiful and smart School Beauty Jiang Miaoyu who shook his heart slightly. But the road of love was never smooth, even to a perfect hero. He also met a kind and friendly teacher Dr. Shen who discovered his excellent technique and gave him a chance to practice. Besides, his three lovely and interesting roommates were indispensable in his life, although sometimes they looked a little awkward. But this young hero’s life was not always full of happiness without a hitch, some trouble still appeared from time to time. The domineering and imperious President of the Students’ Union Li Qingshi purposely made difficulties for him repeatedly. The stubborn and hardworking martial arts practitioner Chen Cong often challenged him in different ways. Just because of these extraordinary personalities around him, this young hero’s road of struggle looked so amazing...

Author: Yuvraj Krishan
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
ISBN: 9788121505659
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Illustrations: 247 b/w illustrations Description: This book deals with crucial though controversial questions in Buddhist art: the origin of the Buddha image and the iconography of the Buddha images. The earliest Buddhist art of Sanchi and Bharhut is aniconic : The Buddha is represented in symbols only. In the later Buddhist art of Gandhara and Mathura, the Buddha is represented in human form: he is the principal subject of sculptural art. The book seeks to explore the geographical area in which the image of the Buddha first emerged and whether the Buddhist doctrines-Hinayana or Mahayana-had anything to do with this transformation. The Buddha image, as developed eventually at Sarnath, became the model for the Buddha images in whole of Asia, south-east, central and eastern Asia. The iconographic features of the Buddha image are superficially an aberration, being in apparent conflict with the doctrine. The Buddha had cut off his hair at the time of his renunciation; the rules of the order enjoin that a monk must be tonsured and must discard and eschew all riches. However, in his images, the Buddha has hair on his head; later he is also endowed with a crown and jewels. After an exhaustive examination of the views of various scholars, the book answers these questions and resolves the controversies on the basis of literary, numismatic and epigraphic sources. More importantly it makes use of the valuable evidence from the contemporaneous Jaina art : Aniconism of early Jaina art and the iconographic features of Jaina images. The implications of this study are also important : Does India owe idolatry to Buddhism? Was this of foreign inspiration? Was the Buddha image fashioned after the Vedic Brahma and whether the Buddha's usnisa and Buddhist art motifs are rooted in the Vedic tradition? The book is profusely illustrated and provides rich and stimulating fare to students of Indian art in general and of Buddhist art in particular.

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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Author: Niels Gutschow
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
ISBN: 3930698757
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Includes not only architectural information, but also the cultural significance of these Buddhist monuments.

Author: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher: Coronet Books Incorporated
ISBN: 9788121502467
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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Illustrations: 50 B/w Illustrations Description: The present work is an analysis of Buddhist symbolism in historical perspective. In author's view Buddhist symbolism, in art or religion, is but a part of the main current of Indian religion and art and has to be studied in that context. Early Indian art is, thus, essentially the continuation of a mainly aniconic Vedic style and the compositions are comprehensible only with reference to Vedic notions. The present work studies the fundamental elements of Buddhist symbolism which predominate in the early aniconic art and are never dispensed with in the later imagery, though they are subordinated to the human icon. The present study is divided into two parts: in Part 1, the Tree of Life, Earth-Lotus and World-Wheel (and other cognate symbols) have been analyzed; Part II deals with the place of the lotus-throne. A study of these reveals that they represent a universal Indian symbolism and set of theological concepts.

Author: Nicole Adamz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735273013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Sometimes love comes second to need.Zh?nzh? hates being poor, but she loves her family. A vague shadow clings to her family after one decision by her father sent the Méilís into poverty, and they never recovered. Now, her father is fighting in a war raging inside of Milgrim: one side promotes reckless advancement of technology while the other side urges caution. The responsibility of keeping the family together falls on Zh?nzh?'s mother and the four girls. As the eldest daughter, Zh?nzh? takes her duty seriously but can't help yearning for more. When Zh?nzh? is accused of something she didn't do, her job is placed in jeopardy. Desperate, Zh?nzh? struggles to forge a new path but becomes entangled with two men. Both offer her a chance at a different life, but she isn't sure what choice to make. Clinging to the past, and hope for the future, Zh?nzh?'s troubled heart makes a surprising discovery. Will her final choice help her family?

Author: Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz PhD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984542133
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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A Promise Kept: Memoir of Tibetans in India is a collaborative work between Germaine Krull and her friend Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz. Although a great photographer, Germaine was European and wrote English poorly. For this reason, she entrusted her memoir manuscript to Marilyn. Germaine requested that Marilyn promise to edit and rewrite it for publication so others could share her experiences. As promised, Marilyn offers Germaine’s A Promise Kept to you. Enjoy reading about his holiness Sakya Trizin, his family, and their lives in India. Share their trials, adaptations, and amazing social and religious rebirth as refugee Tibetans.

Author: Liu FengHuiXue
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636453392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1058

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The path to becoming an immortal, reversing to becoming a devil, that would only take a flick of a finger from time to time. Trampling through the cycle of reincarnation with blood, breaking through life and death on the Vast Expanse Society. Buried love reverses the Road to River Styx, the sword aura shook the nine universe. Wrong me now to create eternal tribulation, who to me read the red candle.

Author: Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming
Publisher:
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Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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