A study was conducted to determine the effects of a three week hatha yoga programme on the reduction of anxiety level and neck and shoulder pain. The three-week programme was given to 14 women working at the University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland. They were randomly divided into two equal groups, and both were given similar exercises. One group was given easier exercises than the other.
Edith Stein, who began her career as Husserl’s research assistant, was an important philosopher in the phenomenological tradition, but her work was ultimately marginalized in Nazi Germany and she died in a concentration camp. This paper unearths and discusses her first substantive work, On the Problem of Empathy, which is the problem of how other persons and their inner states can be given to others. In terms of “the problem of other minds,” how we perceive those is through the irreducible intentional state of empathy. Stein wants to distinguish between the descriptive-psychological (distinguished by Husserl’s ideation of intentional states) and genetic-psychological (supported by empirical analysis) aspects of this problem. Stein felt empathy was an act of ideation through which we can systematically and comprehensively discern not only others’ spiritual types but our own. Empathy is a prerequisite for both knowledge of others and the self.
Ninety children with mental retardation of mild, moderate and severe degree were selected from four special schools in Bangalore, India. Forty-five children underwent yogic training for one academic year (5 h in every week) with an integrated set of yogic practices, including breathing exercises and pranayama, sithilikarana vyayama (loosening exercises), suryanamaskar, yogasanas and meditation. They were compared before and after yogic training with a control group of 45 mentally retarded children matched for chronological age, sex, IQ, socio-economic status and socio environmental background who were not exposed to yoga training but continued their usual school routine during that period. There was highly significant improvement in the IQ and social adaptation parameters in the yoga group as compared to the control group. This study shows the efficacy of yoga as an effective therapeutic tool in the management of mentally retarded children.
A study was conducted to determine the effects of a three week hatha yoga programme on the reduction of anxiety level and neck and shoulder pain. The three-week programme was given to 14 women working at the University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland. They were randomly divided into two equal groups, and both were given similar exercises. One group was given easier exercises than the other.
The lack of a reliable quantitative description of blood flow in man has hampered the development of accurate biokinetic models of essential elements, drugs, imaging agents, and carcinogens. The authors review and analyse data on blood flow and identify representative percentages of cardiac output and absolute blood flow rates to organs and tissues of man for use as reference values for biokinetic models. To keep the review and analysis to a manageable size they have limited attention to the resting state and have suggested reference values for absolute and relative flow rates only for adult males and females.
In male Wistar rats the protective effect of Padma 28 against changes induced by prolonged treatment with ethyl alcohol was investigated. Exposure of the animals to prolonged ethyl alcohol consumption caused a significant increase in AspAT (by 32%), A1AT (by 50%) and alkaline phosphatase (by 372%) activities as well as an increase in the levels of bilirubin (by 98%) and lipids in the blood serum and lipids in the liver homogenate. Padma 28 administration was found to exert a protective action against these changes: a significant reduction of blood total lipid, triacylglycerol, total cholesterol and bilirubin concentrations as well as in the activity of the liver enzymes was observed.
This book presents important discourses that deal with the Healing Buddha in his various manifestations and discusses the many symbols, colors, and deities that are used as objects of meditation. The accompanying photographs of sculptures, paintings, and mandalas demonstrate the importance of art and aesthetic experience in Buddhist healing practices. Also included is a history of healing in the development of Buddhism from the earliest texts and the famous Lotus Sutra to the Buddhism of Tibet, where elaborate ritual is used in the healing of body and mind. Some of the many herbs and medicines used to treat disease in the Buddhist cultures of Asia are described in an appendix. A new preface and a new essay on the search for long life in Chinese Buddhism have been added to this revised edition.
This long-awaited dictionary provides an extensive list of ancient, beautiful Sanskrit names, along with their significance and spiritual meanings. Numerous references to the classical scriptures of India are included to help in research and further study of a name. The spiritual qualities associated with each name, such as particular aspects of God, character traits, and spiritual virtues are highlighted with cross-references to other names having the same quality. The Dictionary of Sanskrit Names is very helpful in naming babies, understanding spiritual names, and as a resource book on Hindu mythology for scholars and researchers.
This monograph provides a philosophical framework and practical ideas for improving service delivery to children of color who are severely emotionaly disturbed. The monograph targets four sociocultural groups (African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans). The document emphasizes the cultural strengths inherent in all cultures and examines how the system of care can more effectively deal with cultural diferences and related treatment issues. In dealing with cultural diferences, there is a need to clarify policy, training, resources, practice, and research isues, and cultural competence should be viewed as a developmental process. Five element., contributing to a system's, institution's, or agency's ability to become more culturaly competent are identified: value diversity, cultural self-asesment, consciousness of the dynamics of cultural interaction, institutionalization of cultural knowledge, and development of adaptations to diversity. Cultural competence must be developed at the policymaking, administrative, practitioner, and consumer levels. Service adaptations developed in response to cultural diversity may impact on intake and client identification, assesment and treatment, communication and interviewing, case management, out-of-homecare, and guiding principles. Planning for cultural competence involves assesment, support building, facilitating leadership, including the minority family and community, developing resources, training and technical assistance, setting goals, and outlining action steps.
In tracing the early history of Penpo Nalendra ('phan po na len+d+ra, aka 'phan yul na len+d+ra) Monastery, Jackson provides accounts of its first eight abbots and of the conflicts the monastery had with Gelukpa (dge lugs pa) monasteries in the late 1480s. Included is a Tibetan history of Nalendra, a listing of the traditional divisions and estate holdings of the monastery, and a listing of more recent abbots.(Kevin Vose 2004-04-06)
A prominent anthropological work on Tibetan culture, Himalayan Dialogue uses the lens of hermeneutical dialogue to examine "shamanic" and "Buddhist" aspects of Tibetan culture. These two aspects operate out of quite different paradigms, and Himalayan Dialogue dramatically portrays the tense dialogue that has driven Tibetan culture for over ten centuries. Mumford uses the interaction between Tibetan exiles (Buddhist) in Nepal and indigenous Nepalese communities (shamanic) to reconstruct the interaction and development of Tibetan culture itself out of the interaction between indigenous traditions and Buddhism imported from India beginning in the eighth century CE. This study combines textual analysis with richly contextualized ethnographic data. Rites studied include exchanges with the underworld, demon exorcism, recalling the soul, and the famed guiding of the consciousness in the Tibetan death rite. (Steven Weinberger 2005-09-23)
The autobiography of the fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lozang Gyatso (Ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho, 1617-1682).
In tracing the early history of Penpo Nalendra ('phan po na len+d+ra, aka 'phan yul na len+d+ra) Monastery, Jackson provides accounts of its first eight abbots and of the conflicts the monastery had with Gelukpa (dge lugs pa) monasteries in the late 1480s. Included is a Tibetan history of Nalendra, a listing of the traditional divisions and estate holdings of the monastery, and a listing of more recent abbots.(Kevin Vose 2004-04-06)
A prominent anthropological work on Tibetan culture, Himalayan Dialogue uses the lens of hermeneutical dialogue to examine "shamanic" and "Buddhist" aspects of Tibetan culture. These two aspects operate out of quite different paradigms, and Himalayan Dialogue dramatically portrays the tense dialogue that has driven Tibetan culture for over ten centuries. Mumford uses the interaction between Tibetan exiles (Buddhist) in Nepal and indigenous Nepalese communities (shamanic) to reconstruct the interaction and development of Tibetan culture itself out of the interaction between indigenous traditions and Buddhism imported from India beginning in the eighth century CE. This study combines textual analysis with richly contextualized ethnographic data. Rites studied include exchanges with the underworld, demon exorcism, recalling the soul, and the famed guiding of the consciousness in the Tibetan death rite. (Steven Weinberger 2005-09-23)
The autobiography of the fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lozang Gyatso (Ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho, 1617-1682).
This is a review by Ram B. Chhetri of Susanne Von Der Heide, The Thakalis of North Western Nepal.
This is a review by Dilli R. Dahal of Heiko Schrader, Trading Patterns in the Nepal Himalayas.
This is a review by Ludwig F. Stiller, S. J., of N. G. Rhodes, K. Gabrisch, and C. Valdetarro, The Coinage of Nepal: From the Earliest Times until 1911.
This is a review by Nirmal Kumar Bhattarai of Predita Pohle, Useful Plants of Manang District: A Contribution to the Ethnobotany of the Nepal-Himalaya.
This is a review by Gunanidhi Sharma of B. P. Shrestha, Nepalese Economy in Retrospect and Prospect.
An excerpt of the verb entries from ZHANG (Bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo / Zhang Han Da Cidian [Great Tibetan Chinese Dictionary]. Beijing: Mi rigs dpe skrun kang / Minzu Chubanshe, 1985)
One of the best monolingual Tibetan dictionaries available. It contains ca 26.000 words, according to Kolmas, it uses a Western-style arrangement in columns, and it contains a large amount of vocabulary not found in most Western lexicons. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)
