wyszukanych pozycji: 15
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Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice
ISBN: 9780415501446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The area of Buddhist monasticism has long attracted the interest of Buddhist studies scholars and historians, but the interpretation of the nature and function of monasteries across diverse cultures and vast historical periods remains a focus for debate. This book provides a multifaceted discussion of religious, social, cultural, artistic, and political functions of Buddhist monasteries in medieval China and Japan. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this volume explores the multiplicity of the institutions that make up "the Buddhist monastery." Drawing on new research and...
The area of Buddhist monasticism has long attracted the interest of Buddhist studies scholars and historians, but the interpretation of the nature and...
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277,36 zł |
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Shard
ISBN: 9781737947202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,99 zł |
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Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism
ISBN: 9780824829926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of abandoning the body(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played...
Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of abandoning the body(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It exami...
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278,61 zł |
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Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism
ISBN: 9780824867898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of abandoning the body(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played...
Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of abandoning the body(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It exami...
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107,88 zł |
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On Desperate Ground
ISBN: 9781497637542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On Desperate Ground is the story of men and women caught up in the death throes of Nazi Germany, struggling to maintain those things precious to them--life, an end to killing, and even sanity itself. Colonel Johann Faust has lost everyone he ever loved and feels he is going inexorably insane. He hears the haunting voice of his dead fiancee and the demons that roar through his mind as he perfects a plan to save Nazi Germany from defeat and insure a greater and deadlier new world war. Captain Dieter Neukirk, once a protege of Faust's, is more concerned with saving the lives of his...
On Desperate Ground is the story of men and women caught up in the death throes of Nazi Germany, struggling to maintain those things precious t...
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cena:
100,51 zł |
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Freegift
ISBN: 9781737947226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,18 zł |
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Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History
ISBN: 9780824839642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity and popular beverage. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in aesthetics, ritual, science, health, and knowledge that tea brought with it. The shift in drinking habits that occurred in late medieval China cannot be understood without an appreciation of the fact that Buddhist monks were responsible for not only changing people's attitudes toward the... Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an... |
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151,14 zł |
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Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice
ISBN: 9780415489775 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The area of Buddhist monasticism has long attracted the interest of Buddhist studies scholars and historians, but the interpretation of the nature and function of monasteries across diverse cultures and vast historical periods remains a focus for debate. This book provides a multifaceted discussion of religious, social, cultural, artistic, and political functions of Buddhist monasteries in medieval China and Japan. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this volume explores the multiplicity of the institutions that make up "the Buddhist monastery." Drawing... The area of Buddhist monasticism has long attracted the interest of Buddhist studies scholars and historians, but the interpretation of the nature ... |
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770,57 zł |
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Afghanistan: U.S Policies, Legislation and Key Issues
ISBN: 9781536197488 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Afghanistan has been a significant U.S. foreign policy concern since 2001, when the United States, in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led a military campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban government that harbored and supported it. In the intervening 18 years, the United States has suffered approximately 2,400 military fatalities in Afghanistan, with the cost of military operations reaching nearly $750 billion. Congress has appropriated approximately $133 billion for reconstruction. In that time, an elected Afghan government has replaced the Taliban, and most...
Afghanistan has been a significant U.S. foreign policy concern since 2001, when the United States, in response to the terrorist attacks of September 1...
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1047,92 zł |
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Billy Boyle
ISBN: 9781616953553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What's a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who's never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he'd barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight--and perhaps die--for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be...
What's a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who's never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having...
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cena:
41,85 zł |
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Souvenir
ISBN: 9781497637559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Secrets trail an American soldier from his Depression upbringing to the cold winter battles in the Ardennes Forest in the last months of World War II, and through the postwar decades, as he struggles to keep his family from being torn apart while keeping the truth buried close to his heart. Clay Brock, proprietor of Jake's Tavern, has endured terrible losses throughout his life. In 1964, he is working to build a life for his wife and son, only to see everything he has worked for threatened by forces beyond his control. To keep his family from breaking apart, he must confront the very secret...
Secrets trail an American soldier from his Depression upbringing to the cold winter battles in the Ardennes Forest in the last months of World War II,...
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cena:
92,13 zł |
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The First Wave
ISBN: 9781569475171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The second Billy Boyle investigation
Billy Boyle is dispatched to help arrange the surrender of Vichy French forces in Algeria. But dissension among the regular army, the militia, and De Gaulle s Free French forces allows black marketers in league with the Germans to divert medical supplies, leading to multiple murders. Billy must find the killers and rescue the woman he loves, a British spy." The second Billy Boyle investigation
Billy Boyle is dispatched to help arrange the surrender of Vichy French forces in Algeria. But dissens... |
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71,01 zł |
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Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
ISBN: 9789004509610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
cena:
449,19 zł |