These performative practices cannot be understood without reference to a concept of the sacred, which anchored and governed the performances ... of identity formation and reciprocity which undergirded ...

As well as being an important centre of martial arts, it is also a sacred place of Buddhist study. Shi Yandian is a student monk at the temple hoping to qualify as a full warrior monk. Rising up ...

and others—that people began to look at the Bible not just as a sacred text but as they would look at any other book. And they began to notice in the pages of the first five books of the Bible a ...

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Zhao, Yanxuan Wu, Hui Fan, Yingjia Jin, Hexian Wang, Yifan and Lu, Lei 2024. Integrated study on the conservation of ecocultural heritage in the Tiantai Mountain area ...

The War on Warriors uncovers the deep roots of our dysfunction—a society that has forgotten the men who take risks, cut through red tape, and get their hands dirty. The only kind of men prepared ...

Mindfulness, or shamatha, is a subdiscipline of meditation. It is, in part, an exercise in nonattachment. Plot twist: ...

Trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai is now happy to entertain comparisons between his rising star Voyage Warrior and his former champion sprinter Sacred Kingdom after another awesome display on Easter Monday.

By Dwight Garner Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.

Many religious people would go even further and say that the world is sacred, or holy ... a story told in the Book of Genesis. God also gave them dominion, which means that they have authority ...

The High Abbot of Shaolin Temple sends the Ten Brothers, newly finished with their Shaolin training, as escorts to one Master Chu. Master Chu has been living in the Temple for two years waiting ...

The Resolute Desk,” a sculpture that appeared Thursday on the National Mall, is crass, tasteless and inappropriate — and all ...