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Page 1. Perpectives and paradigms Can invasive species facilitate native species? Evidence of how, when, and why these impacts occur* Laura F. Rodriguez1,2 1Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis ...
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... En este artículo comentaremos solamente al-gunas, pues el tema de los pies y la Biblia es muy extenso; quizá los aspectos más conocidos sean el lavatorio de los ... El vidente Janani le reprocha escuchar más a los hombres que a Yahvé,... more
... En este artículo comentaremos solamente al-gunas, pues el tema de los pies y la Biblia es muy extenso; quizá los aspectos más conocidos sean el lavatorio de los ... El vidente Janani le reprocha escuchar más a los hombres que a Yahvé, Asá molesto, lo encadenó en la cárcel. ...
An examination of the mythic and artistic records of India and Southeast Asia indicates that the famous psychotropic of the ancient Aryans was the eastern lotus, Nelumbo nucifera. Vedic epithets, metaphors, and myths that describe the... more
An examination of the mythic and artistic records of India and Southeast Asia indicates that the famous psychotropic of the ancient Aryans was the eastern lotus, Nelumbo nucifera. Vedic epithets, metaphors, and myths that describe the physical and behavioral characteristics of the ‘soma’ plant as a sun, serpent, golden eagle, arrow, lightning bolt, cloud, phallic pillar, womb, chariot, and immortal navel, relate individually or as a whole to the eastern lotus. Since most Hindu and Buddhist gods and goddesses trace their origins from the Vedas and have always shared close symbolic associations with Nelumbo, there is reason to believe the divine status of this symbolic plant derives from India’s prehistoric past.
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... In contrast, in the recovery methods of System R [GMBLL81] and DB2 V1 [Crus84], only the missing updates of terminated and in-doubt transactions (the nonloser transactions) are redone during the redo pass. This is called the selective... more
... In contrast, in the recovery methods of System R [GMBLL81] and DB2 V1 [Crus84], only the missing updates of terminated and in-doubt transactions (the nonloser transactions) are redone during the redo pass. This is called the selective redo paradigm. ...
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A number of classical Chinese novels have been translated into English, which has helped these works reach a broader audience in the English-speaking world. Jin Ping Mei a sixteenth-century Chinese masterpiece, is one such book. There are... more
A number of classical Chinese novels have been translated into English, which has helped these works reach a broader audience in the English-speaking world. Jin Ping Mei a sixteenth-century Chinese masterpiece, is one such book. There are two well-known English translations of this work. The first translation, entitled The Golden Lotus was completed by Clement Egerton. The second, entitled The Plum in the Golden Vase is a projected five-volume translation work in progress by David Roy. Despite the reviews of the two translations, a systematic comparison of them is still lacking. This article aims to compare and contrast The Golden Lotus and The Plum. I contend that each translation should be examined as a ‘full package’ in order to reveal the strategies of each translator within the context of their time periods and cultures. I demonstrate that The Golden Lotus and The Plum reflect the different views that Egerton and Roy had in mind when translating Jin Ping Mei. Furthermore, I argue that despite their manifest differences, the philosophies of the two translators share similar paradoxes, which suggests affinities between The Golden Lotus and The Plum.
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In the mid-eighth century, Emperor Shōmu ordered the creation of provincial national protection monasteries and convents (kokubunji and kokubun-niji, respectively) connected to the Golden Light and Lotus Sūtras. The monasteries were... more
In the mid-eighth century, Emperor Shōmu ordered the creation of provincial national protection monasteries and convents (kokubunji and kokubun-niji, respectively) connected to the Golden Light and Lotus Sūtras. The monasteries were called the "Temples of the Golden Light Four Deva Kings for the Protection of the Country" (konkōmyō shitennō gokoku no tera) and the convents were the "Temples of the