AN10 - Collection of Numbered Speeches

AN10 - Collection of Numbered Speeches
Author: Tomás Morales y Durán
Publisher: Libros de Verdad
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2024-03-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The tenth book of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Collection of the Numbered Discourses of the Buddha, collects 746 suttas or discourses whose subject matter is centered on groups of ten topics. The most frequent are the eight components of the eightfold path expanded to ten and also ten components of ethics. This book is especially thick because of the continuous repetitions upon repetitions with very slight variations. The volume is also notable for including extensive content on monastic discipline. As the most outstanding sutta we have AN 10.26: With Kāḷī. Fierce criticism of the Brahmanical meditation methods called "kasinas" which, in early medieval times, were included by Buddhaghosa in his entrance work to a famous Sinhalese monastery and which today some claim as "effective" methods of meditation within Buddhism. The most interesting suttas in this volume are: AN 10.6: Contemplation. Perceiving without perceiving. One of the most curious things one feels when entering current. AN 10.14: Emotional Sterility. Doubts about the Master cause emotional sterility. AN 10.19: Abodes of the Noble Ones (I). When one stops searching. AN 10.29: Kosala (I). Tremendous criticism of wrong practice. AN 10.31: With Upāli. The reasons for the establishment of the monastic code. AN 10.64: Faith. On those who have entered the stream. AN 10.65: Happiness (I). Family and friends who get together and annoy you. AN 10.76: Three things. A beautiful sutta on renunciations. AN 10.92: Dangers. Teaching on perishability and faith. AN 10.108: Physicians: Interesting sutta on physicians and the list of diseases known and treated with varying degrees of success. This book does not contain false suttas. In summary, this time the arduous and exhaustive work of research and reconstruction in comparative linguistics has been especially dense and thick.

Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX

Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX
Author: Vidagama Maitreya
Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9552403863

This book contains fifteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. 296–97: The World’s True Welfare—Vidagama Maitreya 298–300: Thoughts on the Dhamma—Mahasi Sayadaw 301–02: Investigation for Insight—Susan Elbaum Jootla 303–04: Contemplation of Feelings—Nyanaponika Thera 305–07: The Paccekabuddha: A Buddhist Ascetic—Ria Kloppenborg 308–11: The Noble Eightfold Path—Bhikkhu Bodhi

Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI

Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI
Author: Various
Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9552403685

Wheel Publication 231: The Essentials of Buddha Dhamma in Meditative Practice—Sayagyi Thray Sithu U Ba Khin 232–43: The Value of Buddhism for the Modern World—Dr. Howard L. Parsons 234–46: The Miracle of Being Awake—Thich Nhat Hanh 237: The Psychology of Emotions in Buddhist Perspective—Dr. Padmasiri de Silva 238–40: Anguttara Nikaya—Nyanaponika Thera 241–42: The Worn-out Skin—Nyanaponika Thera 243–44: Forest Meditations—Bhikkhu Khantipalo 245–47: The Noble Eightfold Path and its Factors Explained—Ledi Sayadaw

Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVII

Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVII
Author: Nanamoli Thera
Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9552404142

This book contains sixteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. 248–9: The Buddha’s Words on Kamma—Nanamoli Thera 250: Concept and Meaning—C.F. Knight & Carlo Gragnani 251–3: The Roots of Good and Evil—Nyanaponika Thera 254–6: Life’s Highest Blessings—Dr. R. L. Soni 257: Meanderings of the Wheel of Dhamma—Nathan Katz 258: The Contemporary Relevance of Buddhist Philosophy—K. N. Jayatilleke 259–60: Nourishing the Roots—Bhikkhu Bodhi 261: Buddhism and Death—M. O’C. Walshe 262: Faith in the Buddha’s Teaching and Refuge in the Triple Gem—Soma Thera 263–4: Maha-Moggallana—Hellmuth Hecker

Introduction to Probability

Introduction to Probability
Author: Joseph K. Blitzstein
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1466575573

Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.

Lectures Of Sidney Coleman On Quantum Field Theory: Foreword By David Kaiser

Lectures Of Sidney Coleman On Quantum Field Theory: Foreword By David Kaiser
Author: Bryan Gin-ge Chen
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Total Pages: 1195
Release: 2018-11-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814635529

'Sidney Coleman was the master teacher of quantum field theory. All of us who knew him became his students and disciples. Sidney’s legendary course remains fresh and bracing, because he chose his topics with a sure feel for the essential, and treated them with elegant economy.'Frank WilczekNobel Laureate in Physics 2004Sidney Coleman was a physicist's physicist. He is largely unknown outside of the theoretical physics community, and known only by reputation to the younger generation. He was an unusually effective teacher, famed for his wit, his insight and his encyclopedic knowledge of the field to which he made many important contributions. There are many first-rate quantum field theory books (the venerable Bjorken and Drell, the more modern Itzykson and Zuber, the now-standard Peskin and Schroeder, and the recent Zee), but the immediacy of Prof. Coleman's approach and his ability to present an argument simply without sacrificing rigor makes his book easy to read and ideal for the student. Part of the motivation in producing this book is to pass on the work of this outstanding physicist to later generations, a record of his teaching that he was too busy to leave himself.

Presidential Road Show

Presidential Road Show
Author: Diane J. Heith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-12-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317253531

In The Presidential Road Show: Public Leadership in an Era of Party Polarization and Media Fragmentation, Diane J. Heith evaluates presidential leadership by critically examining a fundamental tenet of the presidency: the national nature of the office. The fact that the entire nation votes for the office seemingly imbues the presidency with leadership opportunities that rest on appeals to the mass public. Yet, presidents earn the office not by appealing to the nation but rather by assembling a coalition of supporters, predominantly partisans. Moreover, once in office, recent presidents have had trouble controlling their message in the fragmented media environment. The combined constraints of the electoral coalition and media environment influence the nature of public leadership presidents can exercise. Using a data set containing not only speech content but also the classification of the audience, Diane J. Heith finds that rhetorical leadership is constituency driven and targets audiences differently. Comparing tone, content, and tactics of national and local speeches reveals that presidents are abandoning national strategies in favor of local leadership efforts that may be tailored to the variety of political contexts a president must confront.