Sentences with phrase «as tibetan»

The paintings draw on such varied influences as Tibetan Thangkas, Indian miniatures and the 16th century Italian artist Guiseppe Arcimboldo.

The next morning begins with an exciting trip to valley attractions such as Tibetan Monastery, Vashist Village, Hadimba Devi Temple, and the Manu Temple.

In general, smaller breeds such as the Tibetan Terrier tend to have less prominent vessels.

The Tibetan Mastiff, also known as the Tibetan Dog, the Thibet Dog, the Thibet Mastiff and the Tibetaanse Mastiff, is an ancient, heavily coated breed with a history shrouded in legend and lore.

The Lhasa Apso, also known as the Tibetan Apso, the Apso Seng Kyi (Tibetan), the Bearded Lion Dog, the Hairy Lion Dog, the Talisman Dog, the Shantung Terrier, the Sheng Trou, the Apso and the Lhasa, originated in the isolated reaches of the Himalayan Mountains and has remained largely unchanged in type and temperament for thousands of years.

While there, I became Buddhist and took ordination as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 2002.

Molossers such as this Tibetan mastiff played an important role in the development of the perro de presa and boerboel.

Throughout its history, the Irish wolfhound has been crossed with other breeds to replenish its stock, such as the Tibetan mastiff, the borzoi and the great Dane.

Some of the line stayed in Central Asia to the present day, and frequently appear as Tibetan Mastiffs and Akitas.

Of course, both as a Tibetan and as a monk, I have been brought up according to, and educated in, the principles, the precepts, and the practice of Buddhism.

In Tibetan Buddhism, just before and right after death, instructions from the Bardo Thodol, known in the West as The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, are read aloud to provide guidance through the dying...

In Tibetan Buddhism, just before and right after death, instructions from the Bardo Thodol, known in the West as The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, are read aloud to provide guidance through the dying process and on to rebirth.

Transcribed directly from the journals of explorer M.G. Hawking's five years in the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet, this book contains detailed narratives of the encounters and conversations the author and his companions had with the actual Ri - iha - mo, the legendary Himalayan celestials, or «mountain goddesses,» as the Tibetan term translates.

The monk practising the debate is immersed, in his everyday life of Buddhist and as a tibetan, in a cultural universe filled with songs, music and dances crowned, in a singular relationship to gods whom he knows how he has invented to help him to represent itself and to live the logic of the contradictory which makes the phenomena.

«If we decide to go the other way and cater to China in particular and have him be in Tibet... if you think it's a good idea to cast a Chinese actress as a Tibetan character, you are out of your damn fool mind and have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.»

The casting of white actress Tilda Swinton in «Doctor Strange» as the Ancient One, a character portrayed as a Tibetan man in the original Marvel comics, has led to criticisms of whitewashing.

Swinton touched once more on the controversy surrounding her casting as the Ancient One, who traditionally appears as a Tibetan man in the comics.

The character has been at the center of some controversy, however, as the Ancient One is depicted as Tibetan in the comics.

The dried form of the fruit is marketed in herbal health care stores as Tibetan or Himalayan Goji berry.

Especially popular are mandalas, used by ancient cultures such as Tibetan monks who create sand mandalas as a form of meditation.

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

The «Goji» berry is known as a Tibetan berry because it was traditionally used in the Indo Tibetan Mongolian culture for centuries.

Religion News Service: Tibetans have «sacred duty» to support self - immolations As the 18th congress of China's Communist Party began in Beijing this week, six more Tibetans set themselves on fire as Tibetan leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing wave of self - immolations.

Among the books, all of which either wear their contemporary paper jackets or are recent paper - backs, on the shelves that climb the walls, are displayed plastic reproductions of such things as a Tibetan prayer wheel, African masks, a cross or two, a grinning gargoyle, several Indian - temple loving couples, and (standing in a corner) a crosier.

YINDAYIN COACHING's mission is to provide quality education to underserved populations preserve endangered language such as Tibetans and to create a platform for Tibetaneducators engage with the international community.

Not exact matches

Although India has formally acknowledged Tibet as a part of China, there is a new push to support the rights of the Tibetan people so as to negotiate with China from a position of strength.

for all the christians using pascale's wager, be so kind as to disprove «the tibetan book of the dead»

Self - immolation began as a form of protest among Tibetans in China in February 2009, when a young monk set himself ablaze.

How can profoundly deep agreement occur between David Bohm, an important quantum - physicist, and Krishnamurti, a world - teacher on philosophical spirituality, as well as with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism?

Dr. Tsewang Tamdin, a world - renowned expert in Tibetan medicine, visited Emory University in Atlanta on Monday as part of his effort to reach more American medical practitioners.

Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks pray as they mourn those who died in protest against Chinese rule on November 08, 2012.

Here sovereignty might actually clash with sovereignty, as was the case of feudal Western Christianity and feudal Japanese and Tibetan Buddhism, the religious might clash with the secular.

Suppose, to make this abstraction concrete, that I, as a member of a particular religious community — in my case, as I have said, the communion of Anglican Christians — find myself in contact with a Gelukpa Tibetan Buddhist who, so far as I can tell, believes and teaches things that I think are incompatible with what I believe and teach.

If you are a monk of Tibetan Buddhism, you should take an aggressive strike on your freedoms with the same grace and joy as you take a welcoming handshake.

In that tradition, Sophia would act as your «Khandroma» which is the Tibetan translation of Dakini.

We have all heard ultimate reality described as a dazzling light — the motif is in Shelley, it forms the centerpiece of the Tibetan Buddhist Book of the Dead, indeed it is well - nigh universal.

Fairly recently, beginning around 1996 the name «Goji» was «borrowed» from the Tibetan culture and used to market another similar lycium berry known for hundreds of years as the Chinese «wolfberry» and that caused market confusion and still remains a marketing error today.

After this morning's jog, he will have lunchwith Steve Wynn, whose name is on the side of the hotel in which we're staying, and an orange - robed Tibetan monk whom Armstrong later will describe as the «Dalai Lama's assistant.»

As Alex Bellos, author of Futebol, writes «The phrase «Brazilian footballer» is like the phrases «French chef» or «Tibetan monk».

The CIA agreed to help, «not because they cared about Tibetan independence, but as part of their worldwide efforts to destabilize all Communist governments,» the Dalai Lama wrote.

Khenpo A-chos had apparently become what is known in Tibetan Buddhism as a rainbow body.

«I think the paper is so popular because it highlights that remote environments like The Tibetan Plateau can act as a barometer for assessing changes to global industrial output of these chemicals.»

If Hale was right, then Pama - Nyungan, with more than 200 identified languages, would be one of the world's largest language families — larger than Indo - European and almost as large as Sino - Tibetan.

She and colleagues investigated samples such as a scrap of skin from the hand or paw of a «Yeti» — part of a monastic relic — and a fragment of femur bone from a decayed «Yeti» found in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau.

Yet the body tissues of Tibetans consume just as much oxygen as those of people who live at sea level.

Twice as much blood coursed through the arms of the Tibetans as through the arms of the lowlanders, even though heart rates and blood pressures were no different between the two groups, the researchers report online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Eight of the nine yeti samples were identified as actually coming from the Asian black bears, Himalayan brown bears and Tibetan brown bears that call this remote region home.

The team found that the blood of Tibetans had more than 10 times the concentration of biologically active nitric oxide breakdown products, such as nitrate and nitrite, than did blood from people who lived at sea level, signifying a high level of nitric oxide in their bloodstreams.

You can eliminate anything on the 70 % of the planet that's water, everything poleward of 57 ° latitude over which UARS does not orbit, and for all practical purposes the empty areas of the world, such as the Amazon, most of Australia, the Sahara, the Tibetan Plateau, much of Siberia, and even a lot of the western interior of the United States.

For example, Tibetans refer to a wide range of experiences — some blissful but some painful or disturbing — as «nyams.»