The power of the great spell of the Dharma-king—totally removes (lit. “move and destroy”) the infinite number of demons; The compassion of the Tathāgata universally bestows happiness [to the sentient beings]—and his awe-inspiring light penetrates everywhere; Don’t wait, all of you take...
Early cultures used meteorites to craft weapons and jewelry long before anyone knew how to extract iron from ore.
Protagonists Emily and Navin first discover the titular amulet in the attic of their deceased great-granddad. Once they head through the portal in his basement, they discover the fantasy world of Alledia, one populated by elves and animal humanoids. Amulets like Emily’s are wielded by “stone...
The cards are designed as an easy keepsake to remember the deceased. At the very least, a funeral card will include your ancestor’s birth and death date. Some cards are a bit more detailed and may include a short memory of the deceased. Also, there a good chance that the funeral ...
Beforeyouget discouraged, remember: … a person must be deceased at least 5 years before a commemorative proposal will be considered. In other words, you will have plenty of time to get over the injury of your untimely death, before you have to face the insult of your mountain name rejecti...
(f) Payment to the eldest surviving member of the family of an insured person who has died, towards the expenditure on the funeral of the deceased insured person or, where the insured person did not have a family or was not living with his family at the time of his death, to the pers...
Here are some of the kinds of occasion: memorials for the dead, not only poets, but for anyone, especially younger people (a friend of the deceased, who is not normally a poet, will write and read a poem as an elegy at a memorial event); writing classes, which may also include "...
Recognizing saints, who were by definition deceased, covered a lot of the same ground, but the converts were still fascinated by the idea of their familiar dead returning to the world of the living. Despite some unease in the church, many supernatural ideas persisted in All Saints' Day Eve...
In 1919, a New York Tribune writer tried to summarize what spiritualists claimed the dead had to say about the next world. “They tell us that dying is not a painful process,” he began, adding that it sometimes takes the recently deceased a while to realize that they are no longer amon...
He then added:“One of the reasons it’s so expensive is because you have to shmear (meaning pay various individuals for their assistance) all the time.” (Can you imagine your priest trading in body parts? Or your pastor trying to sell you a kidney in a parking lot or in a diner?