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Cikitsā: Canada tops the list of yoga interest worldwide
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Friday, January 23, 2015. Canada tops the list of yoga interest worldwide. According to Google's metrics on search trends, the keyword " yoga. Is searched for more in Canada than in any other country in the world. And within Canada, the top "yoga" locations are Vancouver and then Calgary. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. RORI office, Alwar. Great blogs by others. The Teetotaller (Daniel Stender).
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Cikitsā: Good writing: transparency is the new objectivity
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Saturday, July 05, 2014. Good writing: transparency is the new objectivity. I care deeply about good writing, which I believe to be indistinguishable from good thinking. As an undergraduate, I was lucky enough to get and read two texts that turned into life-long influences:. C S Lewis, "At the Fringe of Language", in Studies in Words. George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," in Collected Essays. As a student, I internalized Orwell's six rules:. Never use the Passive where you can use the active.
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Cikitsā: Linux Mint 17, Cinnamon, Firefox 31 = freeze
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Thursday, August 07, 2014. Linux Mint 17, Cinnamon, Firefox 31 = freeze. I've been very happy with Linux Mint 17, and the Cinnamon GUI. Except for the occasional system freezes. This happened usually when I was swapping between windows (alt tab), and required a re-login. No sooner written than I found this: http:/ forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. RORI office, Alwar.
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Cikitsā: The complicated history of some editions of Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga
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Thursday, November 13, 2014. The complicated history of some editions of Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga. This is a lightly-revised version of some posts to the INDOLOGY forum sent in November 2014]. The Visuddhimagga was edited and then published twice in Roman script in the first half of the 20th century. By Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids for the PTS, published 1920 and 1921, and by Henry Clarke Warren for HOS, posthumously published in 1950. Neither edition refers to the other. 2009), 37:499–532. It's underst...
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Cikitsā: Gnu-Freefont fonts and XeLaTeX
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014. Gnu-Freefont fonts and XeLaTeX. There's been a long-standing issue about using the Gnu-Freefont fonts. With XeLaTeX. The fonts are "Free Serif", "Free Sans" "Free Mono", and each has normal, italic, bold and bold-italic versions. These fonts are maintained by Stevan White, who has done a lot of support and maintenance work on them. The Gnu Freefonts are excellent for an exceptionally wide range of scripts and languages, as well as symbols. See the coverage chart. In the last c...
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Cikitsā: Sanskrit Vidh - On alchemical transubstantiation versus piercing
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Wednesday, July 09, 2014. Sanskrit Vidh - On alchemical transubstantiation versus piercing. This reproduces a post. By me to the INDOLOGY list, earlier today]. I am trying to firm up the idea that vedh. Means convert, transmute, or (for the philosophers among us, perhaps) transubstantiate. Is a kind of late-ish nibandha. Tradition; one would expect less standardization of vocab. in earlier texts. There is a definition of śabdavedha. Tat lauhakhaṇḍaṃ svarṇādirūpeṇa pariṇatam/. Was published in Calcutta in...
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Cikitsā: The Origins of a Famous Yogic/Tantric Image (part 2)
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Saturday, July 05, 2014. The Origins of a Famous Yogic/Tantric Image (part 2). In a post in February this year. I talked about the origin and spread of the famous "lines of energy" image. I asserted that this image was created by or for Yogini Sunita. I had a memory of having seen the image reproduced in Mircea Eliade's book, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom. Or in one of Daniélou's books. I looked at the issues of Eliade's books available to me, and at Daniélou's. Paris, 1962). And look at the cover! Éditi...
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Cikitsā: Open letter to MLBD about their publishing Mein Kampf
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Monday, May 19, 2014. Open letter to MLBD about their publishing Mein Kampf. Update, 21 May 2014. Motilal Banarsidass responded graciously, rapidly and positively to this letter and the petition, and agreed to stop distributing the book. And if you wish to participate, here is a. Public petition to Motilal Banarsidass. Asking them to cease publishing Mein Kampf. Background reading: " The Paradox of the Popularity of Hitler in India. By Navras Jaat Aafreedi ( Asian Jewish Life. Borayin M. Larios.
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Cikitsā: Kuṭipraveśam rasāyanam
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Wednesday, July 09, 2014. In the Compendium of Suśruta ( Suśrutasaṃhitā. There is a passage describing rejuvenation through the use of Soma, which is taken over a period of four months while living in a special hut ( 4.29.10. The description is very dramatic, and I translated it in my book The Roots of Ayurveda. Two accounts of a parallel therapy occur in Caraka's Compendium ( Carakasaṃhitā. 2003: 76- 8.). In my discussion in Roots. I drew a parallel with the Aitareyabrāhmaṇa. Ie, the Yoga Sutras. Expand...
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Epistemology and Argumentation in South Asia and Tibet. Kai-Manuel Batsching ( "Jalasthana".
