It is true that there are suggestions in various places in the Buddhist literature–both Pāli canonical texts, as well as later Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna texts–that the Buddha is using language strategically when he insists on no self. Might it be that the Buddha does not truly reject the u...
At the same time, there was a growing concern with the changing employment patterns of women's participation in paid work. Initiatives by the women's movement in the 1890s were enhanced by the experience of World War I when women took the places in factories of men who were at the front...
This project implemented the Central Place Theory which was created by the geographer Walter Christaller, who suggested that swelling units are supposed to work as ‘central places’ to offer services to proximal areas as shown in Figure 6. This theory was discussed in detail by Hildebrand Frey ...
The gauchos of Argentina have come galloping to the rescue with a savory sauce that will fill your kitchen with the aroma of wild green places: Chimichurri. As usual around here, I went looking into the history of this traditional Argentine condiment and found some surprising things. Food ...
Once the wealth- iest colony in the Americas, Haiti is now the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, with more than half of its population living below the World Bank's poverty line.11 Secondly, the slave trade had devastating—and enduring—impacts on the places in Africa from where slaves...
1. Introduction There is no agreed definition of a pandemic in the scientific literature [1]. Classically, a pandemic is defined as “an epidemic that occurs worldwide, or over a very large area, crosses international borders, and usually affects a large number of people” [2,3]. However,...
This article focuses on the use of Sámi sacrificial places called sieidi (in North Sámi). Their meanings to the Sámi people changed when the
This is the introduction to the larger forum engaging artists and authors, from very different places and writing in very different genres, in a conversation on ‘the uses and disadvantages of historical comparisons for life’. The idea initially arose in response to the American presidential admini...
It is characterized by an overtly bureaucratic admission procedure and places an excessive financial responsibility on hosting institutions (p. 7)”. Demographic decline with an ageing population is another reason why the EU is lagging behind in R & D. Therefore, there is a need to increase ...
The Arabian Peninsula is home to a unique fauna that has assembled and evolved throughout the course of major geophysical events, including the separation of the Arabian Plate from Africa and subsequent collision with Eurasia. Opportunities for faunal ex