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Words Are Working Wonders

Talking with Heart and Mind. A Buddhist Perspective on Communication. Translated from the German into English by Akasaraja Jonathan Bruton.

By: Sylvia Wetzel

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Words Are Working Wonders

Talking with Heart and Mind. A Buddhist Perspective on Communication. Translated from the German into English by Akasaraja Jonathan Bruton.

By: Sylvia Wetzel

Words can work wonders – and disasters. Words will work wonders if we are speaking with both heart and mind. With heart I mean a deep feeling of connection with everything and everyone and with mind a clear view of our strengths and weaknesses and of the differences between us and – the ability to recognize its own limits. Then our rational mind wisely surrenders the upper hand in our life to our heart, which, somehow, ”knows” that it is connected. Key words: talking with heart and mind, communication, connection, truth and lies, honesty, promises, forgiving, conflicts, poems, words of truth, courtesy etc

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3734786525

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9783734786525

The Heart of the Lotus

A Buddhist Perspective on Women ́s inner and outer Liberation. Translated from the German into English by Jane Anhold

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The Heart of the Lotus

A Buddhist Perspective on Women ́s inner and outer Liberation. Translated from the German into English by Jane Anhold

By: Sylvia Wetzel

Why do present day women take an interest in a “middle age” religion? Buddhism like Christianity was founded by a male teacher and was organised, transmitted and interpreted by men. This book is “a protocol of an encounter”. A contemporary woman has read the teachings of the Buddha “against the grain” and has found some first answers and many more questions. In order for a religion to stay “alive” it has to be rediscovered by every generation anew. Just to follow tradition is not enough. Whenever women take interest in a traditional religion – be it Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism or Islam – they are given a double task: We are looking for a contemporary expression of an old teaching. Many contemporary male Buddhists from the West and some from Asia are working on this task. Women have to read patriarchal teachings critically “with the eyes of a woman”. The Heart of the Lotus presents central teachings of Buddhism and describes traps we fall into, if we don not consider our cultural background and our biological sex and social gender. It takes up typical questions women are asking and presents first results: concepts and exercices which can support contemporary women (and men) on their path to inner and outer freedom.

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3734786592

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9783734786594

Living with Ease

A Buddhist Perspective on Emotions. Translated from the German into American English by Jane Anhold and Jonathan Akasaraja Bruton

By: Sylvia Wetzel

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Living with Ease

A Buddhist Perspective on Emotions. Translated from the German into American English by Jane Anhold and Jonathan Akasaraja Bruton

By: Sylvia Wetzel

Living with ease shows us, how we can become familiar with attitudes which can support and heal us, how to let go of old sorrows and develop a new perspective of life, how to gently change old habits and stimulate deep appreciation for ourselves and everybody else, how to see and make use of the many positive conditions life offers, and lastly how we can learn to live with ease in a world full of challenges, difficult emotions and political turmoil

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3738623965

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9783738623963

Pennsylvania Impressionism

By: William H. Gerdts,Sylvia Yount

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Pennsylvania Impressionism

By: William H. Gerdts,Sylvia Yount

This magnificent new book . . . has assembled a definitive collection of impressionistic works from the Bucks Country region of eastern Pennsylvania. . . . Excellent!"—Bloomsbury Review

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812237005

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9780812237009

Outsiders

The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

By: Sylvia Huot

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The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

By: Sylvia Huot

Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they are portrayed as brute savages or as tyrannical pagan lords, giants serve as a limit against which the chivalric hero can measure himself. In Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance, Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants allows for fantasies of ethnic and cultural conflict and conquest, and for the presentation—and suppression—of alternative narrative and historical trajectories that might have made Arthurian Britain a very different place. Focusing on medieval French prose romance and drawing on aspects of postcolonial theory, Huot examines the role of giants in constructions of race, class, gender, and human subjectivity. She selects for study the well-known prose Lancelot and the prose Tristan, as well as the lesser known Perceforest, Le Conte du papegau, Guiron le Courtois, and Des Grantz Geants. By asking to what extent views of giants in Arthurian romance respond to questions that concern twenty-first-century readers, Huot demonstrates the usefulness of current theoretical concepts and the issues they raise for rethinking medieval literature from a modern perspective.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268081832

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9780268081836

The Art of Cloth in Mughal India

By: Sylvia Houghteling

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The Art of Cloth in Mughal India

By: Sylvia Houghteling

A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal Empire In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite objects animated early modern experience, from the intimate, sensory pleasure of garments to the monumentality of imperial tents. The Art of Cloth in Mughal India tells the story of textiles crafted and collected across South Asia and beyond, illuminating how cloth participated in political negotiations, social conversations, and the shared seasonal rhythms of the year. Drawing on small-scale paintings, popular poetry, chronicle histories, and royal inventory records, Sylvia Houghteling charts the travels of textiles from the Mughal imperial court to the kingdoms of Rajasthan, the Deccan sultanates, and the British Isles. She shows how the “art of cloth” encompassed both the making of textiles as well as their creative uses. Houghteling asks what cloth made its wearers feel, how it acted in space, and what images and memories it conjured in the mind. She reveals how woven objects began to evoke the natural environment, convey political and personal meaning, and span the distance between faraway people and places. Beautifully illustrated, The Art of Cloth in Mughal India offers an incomparable account of the aesthetics and techniques of cloth and cloth making and the ways that textiles shaped the social, political, religious, and aesthetic life of early modern South Asia.

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Princeton University Press

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069123213X

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9780691232133

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Words Are Working Wonders

Words Are Working Wonders

The Heart of the Lotus

The Heart of the Lotus

Living with Ease

Living with Ease

Pennsylvania Impressionism

Pennsylvania Impressionism

Outsiders

Outsiders

The Art of Cloth in Mughal India

The Art of Cloth in Mughal India

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