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The Heart Sutra
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The Heart Sutra

An illuminating in-depth study of one of the most well-known and recited Buddhist texts, by a renowned modern translator The Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra is among the best known of all the Buddhist scriptures. Chanted daily by many Zen practitioners, it is also studied extensively in the Tibetan tradition, and it has been regarded with interest more recently in the West in various fields of study—from philosophy to quantum physics. In just a few lines, it expresses the truth of impermanence and the release of suffering that results from the understanding of that truth with a breathtaking economy of language. Kazuaki Tanahashi’s guide to the Heart Sutra is the result of a life spent work...

Chapters on Asia: Selected papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2021)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88

Chapters on Asia: Selected papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (2021)

Chapters on Asia features selected papers written by scholars who have been awarded the National Library’s Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship. These works examine the history and heritage of Singapore and the region, and contain fresh research based on the collections of the National Library and National Archives of Singapore. Chapter 1. The Circulation of Premodern Knowledge of Singapore and its Straits before 1819 / Benjamin J.Q. Khoo Chapter 2. Europeans in the Press: A Comparative Reading of the Representation of “Deviant” Behaviour in English and Chinese Language Newspapers in Singapore (1923–41)/Zhi Qing Denise Lim Chapter 3. Chinese Newspaper Literary Supplements in Singapore’s Postwar Literary Scene: The Roles of Xing Ying and Yao Zi/seah Cheng Ta

Knowing Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Knowing Words

For the Greeks, the craft of Odysseus and the wisdom of Athena were examples of metis, an elusive cast of mind that ranged from wisdom and forethought to craft and cunning. Although it informed many aspects of Greek society, metis was all but absent from the language of Greek philosophy. Invoking Indigenous Chinese debates, Lisa Raphals here examines the role and significance of metic intelligence in classical Chinese philosophy, literature, history, and military strategy. Raphals first examines the range of meanings of the Chinese word zhi. As with the Greek metis, the uses of zhi include "wisdom, " "knowledge, " "intelligence, " "skill, " "cleverness, " and "cunning." Drawing on parallels ...

Qi Men Dun Jia Forecasting Methods - People and Environmental Matters (Book 2)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Qi Men Dun Jia Forecasting Methods - People and Environmental Matters (Book 2)

Explore possibilities and outcomes with the ancient art of Qi Men Qi Men Dun Jia Forecasting Methods - People and Environmental Matters (Book 2) is a practical and easy-to-use reference book on utilising the ancient art of Qi Men for divination or forecasting. In this second instalment on forecasting methods, learn how to divine subjects related to people and their relationships, as well as environment factors.

Qi Men Dun Jia Day Charts - San Yuan Method
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 801

Qi Men Dun Jia Day Charts - San Yuan Method

The Qi Men Dun Jia Day Charts - San Yuan Method is the perfect deployment system for events and activities within the duration of 24 hours. Consider this as your essential Qi Men guide that helps you quickly assess the suitability of a day minus the hassle and complicated process of Qi Men chart plotting. Make the most of your day by maximising your Qi Men potential. Complement your study with the Qi Men Dun Jia Ten Thousand Year Calendar, Qi Men Dun Jia 540 Yang Structure, Qi Men Dun Jia 540 Yin Structure, and with the Qi Men Dun Jia Compendium.

Computer Vision – ACCV 2018
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 753

Computer Vision – ACCV 2018

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-28
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  • Publisher: Springer

The six volume set LNCS 11361-11366 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2018, held in Perth, Australia, in December 2018. The total of 274 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected from 979 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers focus on motion and tracking, segmentation and grouping, image-based modeling, dep learning, object recognition object recognition, object detection and categorization, vision and language, video analysis and event recognition, face and gesture analysis, statistical methods and learning, performance evaluation, medical image analysis, document analysis, optimization methods, RGBD and depth camera processing, robotic vision, applications of computer vision.

Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 937

Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: CABI

The potential benefits of plants and plant extracts in the treatment and possible prevention of many leading health concerns are historically well known and are becoming more widely studied and recognized within the medical community. It is these studies that led to the first compilation of new research developments, identifying new extracts and uses for plants in disease prevention and treatment. This major comprehensive reference work contains contributions from more than 150 clinical and academic experts covering topics such as treatments of cancer and cardiovascular diseases, as well as historical plant use by indigenous people supported by recent scientific studies. Authors review the safety and efficacy of botanical treatments while idenifying the sources, historical supportive data and mechanisms of action for emerging treatments. Written by researchers currently carrying out identification and biomedical testing, this is the most up to date text on the latest research from all over the world. It is an essential resource for health care practitioners and herbalists, as well as researcher, students and professionals in botany and alternative medicine.

Projecting A Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Projecting A Nation

This is the first major work on pre-1949 Chinese cinema in English. As such, it represents a major contribution to existing discussions of both Chinese cinema and national cinema, and is an indispensible basic resource for scholars interested in Chinese film history. The book analyses the wide variety of conceptions of "Chinese national cinema" between the early years of the 20th century and 1949, and contrasts these to conceptions of national cinema in Europe and China. After years of exhausting primary historical research, the author has been able to bring to light sources hitherto not widely available. The author argues that questions and debates about the status and meaning of the "national" in "Chinese national cinema" are central to any consideration of cinema during this period, and addresses the issue of Chinese nationalism as part of a complex history of cinema within the early modern Chinese nation.

Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume 3
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 796

Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume 3

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This third book in a three-volume series offers detailed biographical data on all identifiable authors, patients, witnesses of therapies, transmitters of recipes, and further persons mentioned in the Ben cao gang mu and provides bibliographical data on all textual sources resorted to and quoted by Li Shizhen and his collaborators.

Diplomatic List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Diplomatic List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.