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    Selected Readings from Primary Texts

    This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to Korean Buddhism through twenty-five key primary texts spanning the seventh to twenty-first centuries. All have been expertly translated by leading scholars in the field.The volume introduction provides an overview of major themes that illuminates the diverse sources that follow. The texts, each prefaced by a brief introduction and list of ... Read more

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  • Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith

    Series series Oxford Chinese Thought
    Dasheng qixin lun, or Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith , has been one of the most important texts of East Asian Buddhism since it first appeared in sixth-century China. It outlines the initial steps a Mahāyāna Buddhist needs to take to reach enlightenment, beginning with the conviction that the Mahāyāna path is correct and worth pursuing. The Treatise addresses many of the doctrines central to ... Read more

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    Drug disasters from Thalidomide to Opren, and other less dramatic cases of drug injury, raise questions about whether the testing and control of medicines provides satisfactory protection for the public. In this revealing study, John Abrahan develops a theoretically challenging realist approach, in order to probe deeply into the work of scientists in the pharmaceutical industry and governmental ... Read more

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  • Many Voices of Pilgrimage and Reconciliation, The

    Series series CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series
    Reviewing peace and reconciliation, secular pilgrimages, and international perspectives on sacred journeys, this book offers the reader an opportunity to encounter multiple voices and viewpoints on one of the most ancient practices of humankind. With an estimated third of all international travellers now undertaking journeys anticipating an aspect of transformation (the hallmark of pilgrimage), ... Read more

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  • The Foresight of Dark Knowing

    Chŏng Kam nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-Modern Korea

    Series series Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
    Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the Chŏng Kam nok, a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty (1392–1910) that in recent times has been invoked by a wide range of groups to support various causes and agendas: from leaders of Korea’s new religious movements formed during and after the Japanese ... Read more

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  • Microsoft Big Data Solutions

    Tap the power of Big Data with Microsoft technologiesBig Data is here, and Microsoft's new Big Data platform is a valuable tool to help your company get the very most out of it. This timely book shows you how to use HDInsight along with HortonWorks Data Platform for Windows to store, manage, analyze, and share Big Data throughout the enterprise. Focusing primarily on Microsoft and HortonWorks ... Read more

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  • History of the Development of Chinese Chan Thought

    by Tianxiang Ma ...
    Translated by John Alexander Jorgensen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book aims to describe the history of Chan (Japanese Zen) School thought from the standpoint of social history. Chan, a school of East Asian Buddhism, was influential on all levels of societies in the region because of its intellectual and aesthetic appeal. In China, Chan infiltrated all levels of society, mainly because it engaged with society and formed the mainstream of Buddhism from the ... Read more

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    Design, Use and Evaluation

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book tackles the problem of overshoot and undershoot in blood glucose levels caused by delay in the effects of carbohydrate consumption and insulin administration. The ideas presented here will be very important in maintaining the welfare of insulin-dependent diabetics and avoiding the damaging effects of unpredicted swings in blood glucose – accurate prediction enables the implementation of ... Read more

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  • Called to Unity for the Sake of Mission

    Edited by John Gibaut, Knud Jørgensen ...
    Series Book 25 - Edinburgh Centenary
    The purpose of this volume on mission and unity is to bring to public attention a broad overview on the history, development and perspectives on the role of mission in the pursuit of unity and the central biblical focus on unity as a prerequisite for an authentic witness in mission. The volume raises concrete questions: If the churches can agree on unity for mission, then does this visible unity ... Read more

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