"One Size fits all" was my introduction to the great Frank Zappa... A very strange day a friend of mine gave me the record, and so the story goes... As any Zappa first listener i ended up confused with this bizarre jazz/rock style, but fascinated with the composition of his music....
1. Introduction The tradition of pursuing ascendance to Bodhisattva Maitreya's (Mile pusa 彌勒菩 薩) Tus.ita Heaven (Doushuai tuo tian 兜率陀天) has a long history in Chinese Buddhism. Originally, certain Theraveda and Maha¯ya¯na Buddhist texts depict Maitreya, probably a member of ...
of the local kami (shinzen dokyo¯ 神前読經)—to avert natural disasters and calamities (sho¯jo saigai 消除 災害) and protect the state; powerful clans (annei kokka 安寧国家) were also to be singled out.4 The other three su¯ tras include the Great Perfection of Wisdom (*Maha...
Introduction Translational research is a rapidly evolving area of biomedical research that aims to facilitate and speed up the transfer of scientific discoveries into clinical practice. It has emerged as a scientific discipline rather recently, in order to fill the gap between clinical and basic ...
Introduction Since education is thought to be an important means for promoting social mobility [1], equity in allocation of educational resources is an academic issue of continuous concern in the field of geography and sociology in China [2–8]. The socioeconomic differences between regions, urban...
Introduction Jonah is atypical as a prophetical book in the Bible, as it contains not the oracles but the story of the prophet. Jonah is commissioned by God to act as a prophet in Nineveh. Instead of pursuing the divine command, Jonah chooses to flee and boards a ship for Tarshish. ...