Sentences with phrase «earliest texts describing»

The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga - practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Hindu Upanishads and Buddhist Pāli Canon, probably of third century BCE or later.

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Thus the focus of both Whitehead's diagnostic statements, already quoted, is upon the substance - quality categories (or mode of thought) which makes these two texts consistent with one another and with a third such statement occurring earlier in Process and Reality: «All modern philosophy hinges round the difficulty of describing the world in terms of subject and predicate, substance and quality, particular and universal» (PR 78).

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

The texts describing the Montanist movement are now conveniently collected and translated in Chapter 15: «Montanus and the Montanists,» in Arland J. Hultgren and Steven A. Haggmark, eds., The Earliest Christian Heretics: Readings from their Opponents (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996), pp. 127 - 135.

In addition, early Greek medicine embraced many concepts originally described in the classical Ayurvedic medical texts dating back thousands of years.

I fully agree with Greene's assessment of the importance of demonstrating that the positive results from early nudge experiments — such as our summer melt texting study which Greene describes — can be replicated across time, in other settings, and by other researchers.

Vibrant paintings and kinetic, rhyming text describe a day in the life of a bike messenger, from his early morning in a spare urban apartment and his free - flying day on the run, to a final delivery, where he views the city lights from a skyscraper.

Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric texts: the sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung and Tibetan scriptures refer to the mysterious world as Shambhala I lam - yig, B'on treaties as Olmolungring, Hindu histories as Aryavarth, Chinese as Hsi Tien, and Russian traditions as Belovoyde.In an esoteric treatise composed in the early 1500s by Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, the Third Panchen Lama describes his remarkable visit to a land of wise masters hidden deep in the Himalayas.

The largest and earliest of the works is the monumental Phenomena Himalayan (1971) described by the writer Jonathan Goodman in his text Thresholds of Color as an «intricately rendered work of art that challenges us with its complexities of form and feeling.»

No other gallery explored American conceptualism in the late 60s and early 70s like the Lisson, with shows by Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre and Lawrence Weiner (represented here with one of his massive wall texts, winding right up three floors of stairwell: Whole Cloth Stretched to the Limit, it says, as if describing itself).

The same Shabecoff who is also described here (full text here) as being one of the founding members of the Society of Environmental Journalists, a place I argue is one of the earliest promulgators of the notion that skeptic climate scientists do not deserve fair media balance.

As I described in my earlier review, this «intelligently» selects blocks of text within a case that represent discrete points of law.