Paul Groner, "Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai "
English | ISBN: 0824892747 | 2022 | 400 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and ordinations. Some medieval Japanese exegetes, however, were obsessively concerned with these topics as they strove to understand what it meant to be a Buddhist. This landmark collection of essays by Paul Groner, one of the leading authorities on Tendai Buddhism, examines the medieval Tendai School, which dominated Japanese Buddhism at that time, to uncover the differences in understanding and interpreting monastic precepts and ordinations. Rather than provide an unbroken narrative account―made virtually impossible due to the number of undated apocryphal texts and those lost in the numerous fires and warfare that beset Tendai temples as well as the difficulties of tracing how texts were used―Groner employs a multifaceted approach, focusing on individual monks, texts, ceremonies, exegetical problems, and institutional issues.
Prairie Up
by Vogt, Benjamin;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0252086775 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 17.14 MB
Lara Deeb, "Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon"
English | ISBN: 1503633861 | 2022 | 258 pages | PDF | 29 MB
Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. The book's essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Lebanon and its diasporas and over a range of historical periods. With contributions from historians and anthropologists, this volume reveals the many ways sectarianism is used to exhibit, imagine, or contest power: What forms of affective pull does it have on people and communities? What epistemological work does it do as a concept? How does it function as a marker of social difference? Examining social interaction, each essay analyzes how people experience sectarianism, sometimes pushing back, sometimes evading it, sometimes deploying it strategically, to a variety of effects and consequences. The collection advances an understanding of sectarianism simultaneously constructed and experienced, a slippery and changeable concept with material effects. And even as the book's focus is Lebanon, its analysis fractures the association of sectarianism with the nation-state and suggests possibilities that can travel to other sites.
Practices and Trends in Ground Improvement Techniques
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811933219 | 189 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
This book focuses on case studies from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and the USA in various ground improvement projects. It highlights new applications and trends in ground improvement geo-system including recycling, geo-environmental consideration and preservation of world cultural heritage. The contents will be useful for researchers and engineers to understand how the principles of ground improvement methods are executed in the site, basis of selection of a particular ground improvement technique in a project, cost-benefits of such methods, etc. This volume will also be a useful guide for beginners and intermediate-level practitioners dealing with geotechnical construction projects or who have interest in the development and practical application of ground improvement techniques. Engineers and researchers will find it helpful in developing, advancing and applying their techniques in the field.
Charles Rambo, "Practice for the GRE Math Subject Test: One Practice Test and Solutions"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1718763433 | PDF | pages: 101 | 1.7 mb
One full-length practice test, thorough solutions, and a 16-page glossary containing important theorems and definitions. Problems are qualitatively similar to official math GRE practice tests. Much like the actual subject test, roughly half of the test is about calculus and another quarter is about algebra. Everything is designed to make preparation for the GRE math subject test as seamless as possible.
Practical Linear Algebra for Data Science
by Cohen, Mike X.;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1098120612 | 329 pages | True/Retail PDF EPUB | 24.26 MB
A Practical Introduction to Beam Physics and Particle Accelerators (Third Edition)
by Santiago Bernal
English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-0-7503-4039-7 | 206 pages | True PDF EPUB MOBI | 51 MB
Practical Electron Microscopy Of Lattice Defects
by Hiroyasu Saka;
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811234698 | 309 pages | True PDF EPUB | 58.82 MB
Power-Flow Modelling of HVDC Transmission Systems
by Shagufta Khan
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032171669 | 291 pages | True PDF | 13.21 MB
James Robson, "Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China"
English | 2009 | pages: 527 | ISBN: 0674033329 | PDF | 26,5 mb
Throughout Chinese history mountains have been integral components of the religious landscape. They have been considered divine or numinous sites, the abodes of deities, the preferred locations for temples and monasteries, and destinations for pilgrims. Early in Chinese history a set of five mountains were co-opted into the imperial cult and declared sacred peaks, yue, demarcating and protecting the boundaries of the Chinese imperium.