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Veena Sharma: Kailash Mansarover: A Sacred Journey, New Delhi, India Roli Books 2004 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 81-7436-329-7
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Is a physical journey the necessary path to spiritual evolution? Kailash Manasarovar: A Sacred Journey dwells on this question and perceives the possibility for three stages of inner transformation during the journey, using the Devi Mahatmayam as a metaphor.The journey shows that it takes just a shift in perspective to behold the divine in the mundane. By eroding the conditioning of our essence, the journey helps us connect with a pure centre, marking the beginning of interactions which are actions, rather than mere reactions to situations. From this point on, it is in maintaining a heightened awareness of one's emotions, memories, surroundings, companions in the journey that the journey itself could become meaningful. Printed Pages: 204. First Edition New Paperback 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; First Edition

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(Herausg.): The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East, Yale Univ Pr, ISBN: 0300108982
leichte Lagerspuren Kurzbeschreibung\nIn the early fourth century, a lawyer and public figure from the Nile valley city of Hermopolis made a six-month business related journey to Antioch. The day to day details are preserved on papyrus documents and offer a remarkable record of this journey, covering everything from distances traveled to daily food purchases, from medicinal supplies to fees paid for services. In this book, the classicist and historian John Matthews translates these important documents and places them in the wider context of the social history of the Graeco-Roman world. The memoranda relating to Theophanes' journey are presented within a historical narrative that offers an array of revelations on diet, travel, social relations, and other fascinating topics. This book creates an unprecedented account of daily life in the years preceding Emperor Constantine's rise to power in the eastern provinces of the Roman empire. \n\nSynopsis\nIn the early fourth century, a lawyer and public figure from the Nile valley city of Hermopolis made a six-month business related journey to Antioch. The day to day details are preserved on papyrus documents and offer a remarkable record of this journey, covering everything from distances traveled to daily food purchases, from medicinal supplies to fees paid for services. In this book, the classicist and historian John Matthews translates these important documents and places them in the wider context of the social history of the Graeco-Roman world. The memoranda relating to Theophanes' journey are presented within a historical narrative that offers an array of revelations on diet, travel, social relations, and other fascinating topics. This book creates an unprecedented account of daily life in the years preceding Emperor Constantine's rise to power in the eastern provinces of the Roman empire. , ISBN-13: 9780300108989

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Wu Cheng'en: Journey to the West. Translated by W.J.F. Jenner. Vol. 1-3. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1990. ISBN: 0835111036
Umschläge minimal berieben. - 3 Bände. - Dünndruck. - Bd. 2: 0835111938; Bd. 3: 0835113647. - Journey to the West is a mythological novel based on many centuries of popular tradition. It was probably put into its present form in the 1570s by Wu Cheng'en (1500-82). This lively fantasy relates the amazing adventures of the priest Xuanzang as he travels west in search of Buddhist sutras with his three disciples, the irreverent and capable Monkey, greedy Pig, and Friar Sand. The opening chapters recount the earlier exploits of Monkey, culminating in his rebellion against Heaven. We then learn how Xuanzang became a monk and was sent on his pilgrimage by the Tang emperor who had escaped death with the help of an Underworld official. The main story, the journey, takes the priest through all kinds of entertaining trials and tribulations, mainly at the hands of monsters and spirits who want to eat him. Only the courage and powers of his disciples, especially Monkey, save him from death. Monkey is the hero of the fantasy, and the reader will soon learn why he haslong been so loved in China. Will the pilgrims reach the Vulture Peak and obtain the scriptures? The answer will only be found at the end of the 100-chapter novel. The story is as full of imagination as Monkey is of magic, and packed with incident and down-to-earth humour. The illustrations are from 19th-century Chinese edition. This is the first of the three volumes of the novel. // Journey to the West Volume II This is the second) of three volumes of Journey to the West, the great fantasy novel written in the late sixteenth century on the basis of a long tradition of storytellers' tales. In this volume the four pilgrims-the Tang Priest San-zang, the former Monkey King Sun Wukong, Pig and Friar Sand-have to overcome many dangers on their way to fetch the scriptures from the Buddha's Thunder Monastery in the Western Heaven. Monsters and demons of every kind try to waylay the Tang Priest. Most, like the ferocious Red Boy, want to devour him. Some, such as the scorpion spirit of Pipa Cave, take the form of beautiful women in the hope of seducing him. Monkey has to use all his connections in the supernatural world to find the help that will enable him to defeat these and other formidable enemies, such as the Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan, or the imitation Monkey who is indistinguishable from himself. The story is told with zest, rich imagination and a lively humour. The novel is not only an exciting series of adventures; it is also full of sharp comments on life and society that make it a vivid satire. The four travellers and the people and monsters they meet are drawn with vigour and perception. The illustrations are reprinted from a nineteenth-century edition of the book. Volume III This is the third and final volume of the classic Chinese fantasy novel, Journey to the West. In it the four pilgrims - the Tang Priest Sanzang and his three powerful disciples, Monkey, Pig and Friar Sand - have to deal with many more monsters and misfortunes before they finally reach their goal: Thunder Monastery in the Western Heaven where the Lord Buddha lives. Even here their troubles are not at an end. The scriptures they are given at first are all blank. On this last part of the Journey the demons come in as wide a range of shapes and kinds as ever. Among them are spider-women who spin webs from their navels, a pride of lion monsters and a terrible female spirit who carries the Tang Priest down into her bottomless cave to marry him. These and all the other fiends test to the very limit Monkey's ingenuity, supernatural powers and connections throughout the universe. As in earlier volumes, he is hindered as much as helped by the oafish but lovable Pig. The story is told with the zest, imagination and humour that have made it one of China's best-loved novels for four hundred years. It is not just a tale of the fantastic; it is also rich in insights into human nature and human society. The illustrations are taken from a nineteenth-century Chinese edition of the book. A "Translator's Afterword" discusses this great feast of the imagination and outlines how the cycle of legends grew over many hundred years. ISBN 0835111036 - , ISBN-13: 9780835111034

(3 Bände = vollständig). / 1986. 575; 630; 646 S., Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag, mit Schuber.

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William Griffith Illustrator: . Journals of Travels: in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Afghanistan and the neighbouring countries, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2001 ISBN: 9788121510042

Fine Hardcover 15 x 23 cm. Notices of the Author from the Proceedings of the Linnaan Society, and Extracts from Correspondences 1. Proceeding with the Assam Deputation for the Examination of the Tea Plant 2. Journal of an Excursion in the Mishmee Mountains 3. Tea localities in the Muttack Districts, Upper Assam 4. Journey from Upper Assam towards Hookhoom 5. Journey from Hookhoom to Ava 6. Botanical Notes Written in Pencil, Connected with the Foregoing Chapter 7. General Report on the Foregoing 8. Notes on Descending the Irrawaddi from Ava to Rangoon, Written in Pencil 9. Journey towards Assam 10. Continuation of the same, with Notes on the Distribution of Plants 11. Journey from Assam into Bhutan, with Notes on the Distribution of Plants 12. Continuation of the Journey in Bhutan 13. Return of the Mission from Bhutan, with Meteorological Observations &c. 14. Journey with the Army of the Indus from Loodianah to Candahar 15. Journey from Candakar to Cabul 16. Journey from Cabul to Bamean-the Helmund, and Ozus Rivers 17. Journey from Cabul to Jallalabad and Peshawur 18. Journey from Peshawur to Pushut 19. On the Reproduction Organs of Acotyledonous Plants 20. Journey from Pushut to Kettore and Barowl in Kaffiiristan, and Return to Pushut and Cabul 21. Journey from Cabul to Kohi-Baba 22. Journey from Peshawur to Lahore 23. Journey from Lahore to Simla 24. Barometrical Heights and Latitudes of Places Visited throughout Affghanistan Printed Pages: 562. 5th or later edition

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