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  • The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great Awakening) is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious ...
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  • The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great Awakening) is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious ...
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  • Chopin also wrote two novels: At Fault (1890) and The Awakening (1899 ... relationship with both her mother and her great-grandmother. She also became ...
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  • of Zen are the persistent quest for self-awakening and the sharing of Zen ... quot;At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully ...
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  • Wonhyo’s son, Seol Chong, is considered to be one of the great Confucian ... were the commentaries he wrote on the Awakening of Faith, Nirvana Sutra ...
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  • Mahavira (599 – 527 B.C.E.) (meaning: "'Great Hero" ... about the life of Mahavira, but share a great deal of common ground concerning ...
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  • The Mahabodhi Temple (Literally: "Great Awakening Temple") refers to a Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, the location where Siddhartha ...
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  • of the 1730s and 1740s known as the Great Awakening, which defined Christianity ... ==Great Awakening== In 1731, Edwards preached at Boston the "Public ...
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  • During the Buddha's life great reverence and veneration was shown ... she has discovered. They lead others to awakening by teaching the dharma ...
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  • American frontier and helped start the Second Great Awakening. Held by various Protestant denominations to minister to the spiritual needs of largely ...
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  • Treaty would require ratification by the Great Powers suggests that a world ... swept through Europe, a "national awakening" began in Bulgaria ...
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  • in this world in order to aid in the awakening (bodhi) of all beings. ... in order to quickly attain complete awakening so that they can best help ...
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  • figure at the center of the Third Great Awakening. His sermons were known ... it was soon called the "Third Great Awakening." He would preach ...
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  • revivals of Pietism (such as the Great Awakening and the Second Great ... in the United States during the Second Great Awakening in the late eighteenth ...
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  • partners. Although kāma is evidently of great importance, it is considered ... so proceeds forth unimpeded toward his awakening, and so the message is ...
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  • The First Great Awakening was a religious movement in the 1730s and ... The Second Great Awakening of the late 1820s and 1830s was a nationwide ...
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  • Linji School. Although Dahui developed a great intellectual understanding ... Tangzhou answered, "What you do not have is the awakening. Thus ...
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  • touching her forehead to the ground in great reverence. The Annals go ... meaning of the Diamond Sutra, thereby awakening Huineng to the sutra's ...
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  • During Sundar's lifetime, Great Britain ruled India, but he paid ... === Religious awakening === Before dawn, he wakened his father to announce ...
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  • These plays often dramatize the spiritual awakening and sufferings of their ... Expressionist plays often dramatize the spiritual awakening and sufferings ...
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  • of the Davis band (known as the "First Great Quintet" to distinguish ... It was a period of "spiritual awakening" that helped him return ...
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  • as the cornerstone of the world's great religions. His book was ... allegedly learned the secret of the "Great Arcanum," or White Sexual ...
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  • frequent labor strikes in the 1920s and the Great Depression in the 1930s he ... "Before I follow the great chiefs who have gone before us, Oh ...
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  • approximately 326 B.C.E. when Alexander the Great invaded India. He ruled an ... Later, Ashoka the Great would take royal patronage of Buddhism a step ...
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  • on any book, paper, or document, and upon awakening, he had the ability to ... but reverted back to paralysis upon awakening. Hart suggested that the ...
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  • tradition between 563 and 483 B.C.E. The great benefactor of Buddhism, Asoka ... Buddhas were born, achieved ultimate awakening, and finally relinquished ...
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  • of lives, and has been hailed as a great success for volcanology and eruption prediction. [[Image:River valley filled in by pyroclastic flows ...
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  • The great institution of classical dance was founded by Anna of Russia ... counsel and instruction) (1892); The Awakening of Flora (1894); The Calvary ...
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  • During the Buddha's life great reverence and veneration was shown ... *McLeod, Ken. The Great Path of Awakening - A commentary on the Mahayana ...
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  • called by historians as "Second Great Awakening." Miller preached ... or explanation for the "Second Great Awakening." The Great Disappointment ...
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  • the Samkhya system before his "awakening," putting Kapila& ... * Panch mahabhuta or five great substances - ether, air, fire, water ...
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  • body of someone who has attained complete awakening (bodhi). It is the ultimate ... The Buddhist term Mahaparinirvana, meaning "great, complete Nirvana ...
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  • According to legend, shortly after his awakening the Buddha spent several ... * Mahavibhasa ("Great Commentary," on the Jnanaprasthana) ...
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  • return to his father's court a great spiritual teacher. ... them to fuel the journey toward spiritual awakening. While in Tibet ...
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  • Zen or Chan Buddhism of a student's awakening. This one-to-one transmission ... is a valued and honored mentor worthy of great respect and a source of inspiration ...
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  • Reformed and Puritan scholars, and the Great Awakening that started from the ... supplanted premillennialism. The First Great Awakening by Jonathan Edwards ...
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  • saving her devotees from worldly dangers; great trust and reliance is placed ... Nepalese princess Tr’itsün, wife of the great Tibetan king, Songsten Gampo ...
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  • with important figures in the Negro Awakening that became the Harlem ... significant critical acclaim, if not great financial success. ...
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  • :Jayanti: Lord! Of the states of slumber or awakening, which one is better? is better, for some souls the states of awakening. Slumber is better for ...
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  • Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), often called "America's foremost revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ...
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  • him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation." ... and Geulah Cohen of Tehiya (National Awakening Party)—who argued about ...
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  • occasionally as a sailor and spending a great deal of time as an unemployed ... Christ. Yet Hickey, even after his "awakening," is no ordinary savior ...
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  • "Daniel Gavron, The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia (Rowman & ... earn over $100 million a year. A great wave of kibbutz industrialization ...
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  • valid for the historical context of the great debate between Kamalashila ... * Orofino, Giacomella, “The Great Wisdom Mother and the Gcod Tradition ...
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  • raised Protestant. Although she lived a great part of Montaigne's ... from the moment of Montaigne's awakening. An épinettier—a zither ...
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  • was a brilliant speaker, and was soon in great demand. Using the railway ... of their families. The Knowlton book caused great offence to the churches, ...
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  • systems in Europe saw the rise of great political orators; the ability ... In American history were the periods known as the Great Awakening ...
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  • As with most other psi phenomena, there is a great deal of controversy ... abilities are by-products of spiritual awakening and the elevation of human ...
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  • capabilities to discourse with some of the great minds of England, while at ... #039;s estate, which drew many of the great minds of the time, continued ...
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  • up to final saturation. In Visuddhimagga, great effort and years of sustained ... considerable difficulty is experienced in awakening such sensation, and this ...
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  • an experience of insight (kensho) or awakening. Responses by students ... refers to any experience that accompanies awakening or spiritual insight. ...
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  • his family had created, and he had made great, has been the subject of ... Regent of the University of California. His great-grandfather, Harrison Gray ...
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  • inspiring the emerging Finnish national awakening movement together with ... sail to get the Sampo. They kill a great pike out of whose jaw bone ...
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  • the meditative disciplines of Buddhism of great help in their walks of faith. ... each time moving a step closer to awakening by performing a virtuous ...
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  • by this discovery. His motto was, “the awakening of humanity to the divinity ... Inayat Khan was born into a princely Muslim Indian family (he was ...
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  • way of life, and while this allowed for a great deal of trade, it also led ... used during the initiation rituals of the great winter ceremonies (halait ...
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  • Women, the delegation told the Minister, were awakening to their civic responsibilities. She spoke on women's rights at the special session of ...
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  • disasters which had afflicted the capital city of Kyoto: the Great ... age, a time when Japan produced a number of great poets. His poetry was difficult ...
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  • , or Great Commentary, on the [[Astadhyayi| Aṣṭādhyāyī ... Patañjali is also believed to have been a great dancer, and is worshiped ...
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  • Seneca Falls was in a key location at the time, on the Great Western ... inspired by the message of the Second Great Awakening (a religious movement ...
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  • says this book presents the awakening experience as having many different ... Bechert, Ed., The World of Buddhism. (The Great Civilizations) with contribution ...
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  • east of Western Africa, and west of the Great Rift Valley. It straddles ... to international pressure (especially from Great Britain) and took the Free ...
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  • section. However, the same symphony was a great success when played in Berlin ... off the morning mist, with butterflies awakening and bees starting out for ...
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  • who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public ... As an art critic, he campaigned on behalf of the “great gods nearest ...
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  • Several Restoration Movement churches of the Second Great Awakening not only rejected infant baptism but overtly denied the notion of original ...
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  • Congress, minister to France and Great Britain, governor of Virginia ... rising fortunes: "When we view the great blessing with which our country ...
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  • the Diamond Sutra and experienced an awakening. He immediately decided ... monk, Shenxiu was well-respected and under great pressure to produce a gatha ...
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  • For her dedication to reporting the truth and awakening Americans ... ' But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic ...
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  • technology. Some more specific theories of great social theorists are listed below: ... studied the historical experience of the great civilizations in an effort ...
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  • quot; that the boy would become a great teacher. Lutyens, 1975, 21 ... It has been characterized as a spiritual awakening, a psychological ...
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  • in a Boston medical journal, it commanded a great deal of attention when it ... not always mentioning him by name. While awakening from ether induced unconsciousness ...
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  • Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening. The elephants, inspired ... for having said "every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme ...
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  • it with the word. Curiously, his theory had great success and apparently still ... dagger lying on their pillow upon awakening. This was a plain hint ...
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  • and his companion was left unharmed. Amid a great commotion in the crowd, many ... and that Judgment Day means the spiritual awakening of those who have stepped ...
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  • style of achieving this goal of awakening was not gentle and incremental ... my flesh." Daoyu said, "The four great elements are originally empty ...
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  • human body would be roughly 2,000 times as great as the body's exterior ... *Lawlor, R. 1991. Voices Of The First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal ...
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  • as he proclaimed that while Jesus was a great man, he was not God. For ... century earlier, in the sermons of the Great Awakening American preacher Jonathan ...
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  • popularity in his native country, awakening pride in Polish culture ... village Okrzeja, in a church funded by his great-grandmother. In 1858, Sienkiewicz ...
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  • This way of thinking about emotion has great consequences for the ... of mankind these secondary pleasures play a great part. The more classic one ...
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  • that are based on material desire is what great learned men call the renounced ... ) or chela. The nearest word in English for guru is "great." ...
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  • Hu Guang, and experienced a process of great awakening. He became devoted to ... Yi Hwang’s last great work, Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning, was perhaps ...
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  • spent some time studying at Varanasi, the great center of Hindu learning ... Precepts of Jesus. He depicted Jesus as a great teacher of ethics, whose ...
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  • #039;s follower. He also admired another great intellectual figure of the ... drawbacks he possessed the elements of a great painter. ...
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  • visions. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, and he claimed that his ... and pillars of light. Moses also produced a great number of automatic writings ...
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  • witnessed in the revivals of the Great Awakening and meetings of the ... wrote of a woman who would "speak at great length, and with superhuman ...
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  • Worlds for Old (1908) by H. G. Wells, The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell ... and Europe during and after the Second Great Awakening of the nineteenth century ...
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  • and other songwriters. In the 1830s, the Great Awakening led to a rise in Christian fundamentalism, especially among African Americans. Drawing on ...
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  • described as part of the existentialist awakening. Carlyle establishes that ... being to him the very womb out of which all great things are born. ...
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  • With the coming of the horse culture to the Great Plains they began to take ... role in halting Spanish expansion onto the Great Plains by defeating the Villasur ...
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  • first tribe he saw the next morning upon awakening, knowing full well that ... It happened once when Odin had gone to a great distance, and had been so ...
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  • in his Order, organize and conduct "Great Chanting Ceremonies" ... *Thich Nhat Hanh. True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart. Shambhala ...
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  • to Manicheanism was depicted both as an awakening and an illumination; and ... and eventually liberated by entrapping some great demons and causing them to ...
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  • as most abolitionists, especially in Great Britain and America, were ... was largely an outgrowth of the Second Great Awakening of the early nineteenth ...
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  • are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed ... In Buddhism, followers seek spiritual awakening through meditation ...
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  • and nationalism, it grew with the awakening of the Slavs within the ... a man who loved the truth, and he went to great pains to discover and prove it. ...
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  • and the importance of the human awakening. He remains one of the forerunners ... top many reviewers' lists of all-time great books in history. It was ...
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  • on his artistic principles, met with great success in Antwerp. In 1860 ... Psyche (1864; and a variant entitled The Awakening), Sleeping Women, The Origin ...
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  • and the importance of other people in the awakening of self-consciousness. ... Schopenhauer contended that Spinoza had a great influence on post ...
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  • status. Philip's son Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.E.) managed ... In the late seventh century, Macedonian-born Justinian the Great ...
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  • only by the monks and nuns who take five great vows: non-violence, truth ... of cyclic existence—samsara—by awakening the practitioner to the ...
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  • building in England only achieved great distinction in the 18th century ... In the early twentieth century, an awakening interest in historically ...
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