Sacred Kōyasan

Sacred KōyasanTakes the reader on a pilgrimage to Mount Kya, the holy Buddhist mountain in Japan. For more than one thousand years, the vast Buddhist monastery and temple complex on remote Mount Kya has been one of Japan's most important religious centers. Saint Kb Daishi (also known as Kkai), founder of the esoteric Shingon school and one of the great figures of world Buddhism, consecrated the mountain for holy purposes in the early 800s. Buried on Kyasan, Kb

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This chapter reviews the different types of sorghum and their uses

Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation

A Society Fit for Human Beings contends that there is a profound incoherence in the foundations of modern Western civilization and that we are on a self-destructive course

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Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families this book provides fresh insight into the place of women in the Irish wealthy landed class

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