In The Shadow Of The Pali

Author : Lisa Cindrich
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101176903
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of The Pali written by Lisa Cindrich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary first novel, Cindrich brings hope to horror, capturing a journey that teaches a lost girl who has leprosy more about love than she has ever known.

Author : Stanley Kimmel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaves on the Water written by Stanley Kimmel and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vaddey Ratner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849837619
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In The Shadow Of The Banyan written by Vaddey Ratner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday

Author : Nathan McGovern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190640812
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snake and the Mongoose written by Nathan McGovern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of modern Indology in the 19th century, the relationship between the early Indian religions of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism has been predicated on a perceived dichotomy between two meta-historical identities: "the Brahmans" (purveyors of the ancient Vedic texts and associated ritual system) and the newer "non-Brahmanical" sramana movements from which the Buddhists and Jains emerged. Textbook and scholarly accounts postulate an opposition between these two groups, citing the 2nd-century BCE Sanskrit grammarian Patañjali, who is often quoted erroneously as likening them to the proverbial enemies snake and mongoose. Scholars continue to privilege Brahmanical Hindu accounts of early Indian history, and further portray Buddhist and Jain deviations from those accounts as evidence of their opposition to a pre-existing Brahmanism. In The Snake and The Mongoose, Nathan McGovern turns this commonly-accepted model of the origins of the early Indian religions on its head. His book seeks to de-center the Hindu Brahman from our understanding of Indian religion by "taming the snake and the mongoose"--that is, by abandoning the anachronistic distinction between "Brahmanical" and "non-Brahmanical." Instead, McGovern allows the earliest articulations of identity in Indian religion to speak for themselves through a comparative reading of texts preserved by the three major groups that emerged from the social, political, cultural, and religious foment of the late first millennium BCE: the Buddhists and Jains as they represented themselves in their earliest sutras, and the Vedic Brahmans as they represented themselves in their Dharma Sutras. The picture that emerges is not of a fundamental dichotomy between Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical, but rather of many different groups who all saw themselves as Brahmanical. Thus, McGovern argues, it was through the contestation between these groups that the distinction between Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical--the snake and the mongoose--emerged.

Author : Sean Pager
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493042874
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawaii Off the Beaten Path® written by Sean Pager and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, Hawai'i Off the Beaten Path shows you the Aloha State with new perspectives on timeless destinations and introduces you to cultural attractions you never knew existed. Hike through the natural splendor of Waipio Valley to reach Hiilawe Falls, the longest unbroken waterfall descent in Hawai'i at 1,200 feet. Follow Jack London’s trail on Kalae Stables’ “world-famous Moloka'i mule ride” to Kalaupapa Peninsula. Dine like a local with a “plate lunch” from Cafe 100, Hilo’s first drive-in. So if you’ve “been there, done that” one too many times, forget the main road and venture Off the Beaten Path.

Author : Peter C. Bisschop
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110674262
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primary Sources and Asian Pasts written by Peter C. Bisschop and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sources (including texts, images, material artefacts, monuments, as well as archaeological sites and landscapes) and draw needed attention to highly adaptable, innovative, and dynamic modes of cultural production within traditional idioms. The volume works to develop categories of historical analysis that cross disciplinary boundaries and represent a wide variety of methodological concerns. By revisiting premodern sources, Asia Beyond Boundaries also addresses critical issues of temporality and periodization that attend established categories in Asian Studies, such as the “Classical Age” or the “Gupta Period”. This volume represents the culmination of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership with Leiden University.

Author : American Oriental Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the American Oriental Society written by American Oriental Society and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

Author : Louis Herbert Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indo-Iranian Phonology with Special Reference to the Middle and New Indo-Iranian Languages written by Louis Herbert Gray and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the American Oriental Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saan Orion
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1609766059
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribal Instincts written by Saan Orion and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family hears the call of the wild, leave their village and wander into the wilderness where they transform into vampires.