Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns

Taiwan's Buddhist NunsExplores the milieu of Taiwan's Buddhist nuns, who have the greatest numbers in the Buddhist world and a prominent place in their own country. Taiwan's Buddhist nuns are as unique as they are noteworthy. Boasting the greatest number of Buddhist nuns of any country, Taiwan has a much greater number of nuns than monks. These women are well known and well regarded as dharma teachers and for the social service work that has made them a central part of

provides the foundation that is essential in order to develop a philosophy of nature and human action

his political thought and activity

He explores the development of the railroad in the nineteenth century and the atomic bomb in the twentieth century to show that technologies do not stand apart from

This chapter reviews a range of technologies currently applied or in development which facilitate this individual animal and refined landscape management across the spectrum of extensive grazing production systems

shaped by years of jealousy and paranoia

While great progress is being made in both areas

Using a methodological framework with references to Freud and Lacan

which expands the notion of media control from the suppression of journalism to its manipulation

and increasingly parties act independently of their candidates to pursue collective party goals

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The chapter looks at the importance of managing sweetpotato crop wild relatives (CWR) and examines plant quarantine and phytosanitary issues and the status of genebanks under international treaties

This choice collection of Thoreau’s nature writing includes the essays ‘The Succession of Forest Trees