![]() ![]() Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan Much Ado About Nothingness: Essays on Nishida and Tanabe Soteriological Pragmatism and Psychotherapy: The Buddhist Concept of “Means” in the Writings of the Modern Buddhist Philosopher Inoue Enryō Suzuki: Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death,” December 5–6, 2016, Nichibunken, Kyoto Personal Reflections on Suzuki Daisetsu’s Nihonteki Reiseiĭ. Suzuki with a Focus on His Notion of “Person” The editorial team of The Eastern Buddhistįeature: Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Passing of Suzuki Daisetsu ![]() Volumes of The Eastern Buddhist, New Series, may also be found on JSTOR in the Arts & Sciences XV collection. Published twice a year by The Eastern Buddhist Society It is also possible to make remittances by postal transfer to account no. ![]() You will then be sent an individualized URL from which you can make a credit or debit card payment. To request subscriptions and order back numbers please send an e-mail to giving the details of your order. ![]() Please see the table of contents of this issue, and our other most recent issues, below. It contains a special feature commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of Suzuki Daisetsu (D. We are happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of The Eastern Buddhist, volume 47, number 2. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But when their indiscretion results in an unexpected complication, Josephine struggles to decide whether her heart truly belongs with heroic Martin or dashing Rake. ![]() The captivating robber baron sets her heart aflame once more, leading to a champagne-fueled night together. Then, a figure from her past reemerges to change her life forever: the hotel’s dapper owner, railroad tycoon Rake Solvino. Working at the lavish Regal Sol hotel and newly engaged to Pinkerton Detective Martin Cadden, Josephine Galena Valencia has big dreams for her future. Snow Falling is a sweeping historical romance set in 1902 Miami-a time of railroad tycoons, hotel booms, and exciting expansion for the Magic City. With these tumultuous events as inspiration, Jane’s breathtaking first novel adapts her story for a truly epic romance that captures the hope and the heartbreak that have made the television drama so beloved. Jane the Virgin, the Golden Globe, AFI, and Peabody Award–winning The CW dramedy, has followed Jane’s telenovela-esque life-from her accidental artificial insemination and virgin birth to the infant kidnapping and murderous games of the villainous Sin Rostro to an enthralling who-will-she-choose love triangle. ![]() ![]() It’s been a lifetime (and three seasons) in the making, but Jane Gloriana Villanueva is finally ready to make her much-anticipated literary debut! ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane is terminally ill, and Mitch hopes to give her one last happy vacation. They soon learn that another couple is already staying at the beach house-Mitch and Jane Turner, old friends of Randall's father. Emily intends to pursue a degree in organic chemistry. Randall, who has recently dropped out of college, proposes that Emily do the same so they can live at the beach house permanently. The film was made available for streaming on Shudder on July 9, 2020.Įmily and Randall arrive at Randall's parents' beach house in a remote vacation town. The Beach House had its world premiere at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival in September 2019. It stars Liana Liberato and Noah Le Gros as a college-aged couple who take a vacation to a beach house, where they meet an older couple (Maryann Nagel and Jake Weber) and are threatened by a mysterious infection that spreads across the coast. ![]() The Beach House is a 2019 American horror film written and directed by Jeffrey A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also included are a handful of hands-on, actionable tools and diagrams, including a beautifully designed “Traveler’s Map” and a procedure for “self-hypnosis.” The tome uses the analogy of travel, “an activity already known to all readers,” and the concept of The Travel Agency to explore various elements of and boosts for creative problem-solving - overcoming the blocks to creativity (something we’ve previously examined), avoiding “tourist traps” in the creative process, taking “side trips” that foster serendipity, mastering the art of idea selection, and learning to take criticism. ![]() Bucher’s fantastic 344 Questions: The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment, which has quickly become the most popular book on Brain Pickings this year, a reader named Terry tipped me off to The Universal Traveler: A Soft-Systems Guide to Creativity, Problem-Solving, and the Process of Reaching Goals - a curious metaphorical travel guide to creative problem-solving, originally published in 1971 by researchers Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall, offering what’s essentially a blueprint to design thinking nearly four decades before design thinking was a buzzword. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, in economics, the concern is about outcome rather than intentions. For example, buyers and sellers will adjust their demand and prices, depending on each other’s supply or demand. society), there isn’t just one simple cause that happens, but multiple, and even reciprocal causes. It is the idea that, within a system (i.e. Systemic causation poses an interesting dilemma. There are many different ways causes and effects materialize in an economy. ![]() The application of economic principles can have a lot of consequences, and so we must take those head on. While economics may have moral or philosophical applications, it isn’t based on those principles. While the title of the chapter is “An Overview of Prices”, which might seem redundant to some, in the fourth chapter, Sowell now endeavors to explain the methods and purposes of economics, namely, looking at the cause-and-effect relationships inside economies. ![]() I am now using the fifth edition of Basic Economics. Note: Previous to this post, I had been (unknowingly) been using an older copy of the book. We’ve already finished the first three chapters, so now here is the fourth! Continuing with our overview of Thomas Sowell’s book, Basic Economics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Celeana must decide what she will fight for: survival, love or the future of a kingdom. Celeana faces a choice that is tearing her heart to pieces: kill in cold blood for a man she hates, or risk sentencing those she loves to death. The slavery of the suffocating salt mines of Endovier that scarred her past is nothing compared to a life bound to her darkest enemy, a king whose rule is so dark and evil it is near impossible to defy. But though she won the King's contest and became his champion, Celeana has been granted neither her liberty nor the freedom to follow her heart. Can she live with that? 2012's hottest YA Fantasy debut novel, Throne of Glass, just got competition - its sequel! Action-packed, heart-wrenching, fantastically addictive and not to be missed!Įighteen-year-old Celeana Sardothien is bold, daring and beautiful - the perfect seductress and the greatest assassin her world has ever known. A deal always comes at a price, and assassin Celeana Sardothien has made a deal with the very man who took away everything she loved. ![]() ![]() He insults Mat, Loial, and Perrin, trying to distance himself from them. Rand searches for another way out of Fal Dara, and fails. Rand attempts to ride out, but all the gates have been ordered shut.Ĭhapter 3: Friends and Enemies (Amadaine 2 N.E. ![]() Rand attempts to leave before the Amyrlin can gentle him, but finds that all of his clothes have been replaced by fancy ones, some embroidered with a dragon. Trumpets announce the arrival of the Amyrlin Seat, leader of the Aes Sedai.Ĭhapter 2: The Welcome (Amadaine 2 N.E. He has delayed leaving because he isn’t ready to say goodbye to his friends. Ba’alzamon implants orders in their minds and instructs them to watch for Rand, Mat, and Perrin.Ĭhapter 1: The Flame of Tar Valon (Amadaine 2 N.E. ![]() The Darkfriend Bors meets with others wrapped in dark cloaks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Contact had lapsed between Douglas and Wilde and the latter had suffered from his close supervision, physical labour, and emotional isolation. Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897, close to the end of his imprisonment. The letter begins “Dear Bosie” and ends “Your Affectionate Friend”. In the second half, Wilde charts his spiritual development in prison and identification with Jesus Christ, whom he characterises as a romantic, individualist artist. He indicts both Lord Alfred’s vanity and his own weakness in acceding to those wishes. In its first half, Wilde recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which eventually led to Wilde’s conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency. De Profundis (Latin: “from the depths”) is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to “Bosie” (Lord Alfred Douglas). ![]() ![]() ![]() Grann expertly winds his own quest story around Fawcett’s, said Rich Cohen in The New York Times. The New Yorker correspondent’s first book “brings Fawcett’s remarkable story to a beautifully written, perfectly paced fruition,” and it even makes progress on the tale’s central mysteries. ![]() But writer David Grann has done far better than escape their fate. More than 100 people have since died trying to track down what happened to Fawcett, said Karla Starr in the Los Angeles Times. “You need have no fear of any failure,” he wrote to his wife. Fawcett believed that the centuries-old lore about a place called El Dorado was rooted in truth, and he had enlisted his son and his son’s friend on a mission to locate a great, vanished settlement that he called Z. Newspaper readers worldwide now hung on his every dispatch. On previous expeditions, he had shot a 60-foot anaconda, fought off insect swarms as thick as rain, and watched men die of starvation and disease. The 57-year-old British officer knew the region’s hazards perhaps better than any other non-native. ![]() Seasoned explorer Percy Fawcett had a team of two and a following of millions in 1925 when he plunged into the Amazon jungle looking for an ancient lost city. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon ![]() ![]() This astonishing tale of survival by Shackleton and all twenty-seven of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's brilliantly narrated book, published in 1959, has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance's fateful trip. ![]() ![]() New York, Toronto & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. It would end only after a near-miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew through over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Endurance, Shackletons Incredible Voyage. But for Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men the ordeal had barely begun. The resulting book has all the immediacy of a first-hand account, expanded with maps and illustrations especially for this edition. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. The story about how Ernest Shackleton led his men to safety after his ship, the Endurance, was beset and then crushed by sea ice.Ive read the book. ![]() |