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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155027003321

Autore

Connelly Ben

Titolo

Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara : a practitioner's guide / / Ben Connelly ; with a new translation from Sanskrit by Ben Connelly and Weijen Teng ; foreword by Norman Fischer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Somerville, Massachusetts : , : Wisdom Publications, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages)

Classificazione

REL007000REL075000REL007030

Disciplina

294.3/92

Soggetti

Yogācāra (Buddhism)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"A practical, down-to-earth guide to Vasubandhu's classic work "Thirty Verses of Consciousness Only" that can transform modern life and change how you see the world. In this down-to-earth book, Ben Connelly sure-handedly guides us through the intricacies of Yogacara and the richness of the "Thirty Verses." Dedicating a chapter of the book to each line of the poem, he lets us thoroughly lose ourselves in its depths. His warm and wise voice unpacks and contextualizes its wisdom, showing us how we can apply its ancient insights to our own modern lives, to create a life of engaged peace, harmony, compassion, and joy.  In fourth-century India one of the great geniuses of Buddhism, Vasubandhu, sought to reconcile the diverse ideas and forms of Buddhism practiced at the time and demonstrate how they could be effectively integrated into a single system. This was the Yogacara movement, and it continues to have great influence in modern Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. "Thirty Verses on Consciousness Only," or "Trimshika," is the most concise, comprehensive, and accessible work by this revered figure. Vasubandhu's "Thirty Verses" lay out a path of practice that integrates the most powerful of Buddhism's psychological and mystical possibilities: Early Buddhism's practices for shedding afflictive emotional habit and the Mahayana emphasis on



shedding divisive concepts, the path of individual liberation and the path of freeing all beings, the path to nirvana and the path of enlightenment as the very ground of being right now. Although Yogacara has a reputation for being extremely complex, the "Thirty Verses" distills the principles of these traditions to their most practical forms, and this book follows that sense of focus; it goes to the heart of the matter--how do we alleviate suffering through shedding our emotional knots and our sense of alienation? This is a great introduction to a philosophy, a master, and a work whose influence reverberates throughout modern Buddhism"--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299764103321

Autore

Carpentier Pierre

Titolo

Stochastic Multi-Stage Optimization : At the Crossroads between Discrete Time Stochastic Control and Stochastic Programming / / by Pierre Carpentier, Jean-Philippe Chancelier, Guy Cohen, Michel De Lara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-18138-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling, , 2199-3130 ; ; 75

Disciplina

003.76

Soggetti

Mathematical optimization

Probabilities

Continuous Optimization

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

I Preliminaries -- 1.Issues and Problems in Decision Making under Uncertainty -- 2.Open-Loop Control: The Stochastic Gradient Method -- II Decision under Uncertainty and the Role of Information.- 3.Tools for Information Handling.- 4.Information and Stochastic Optimization Problems.- Optimality Conditions for SOC Problems -- III Discretization and Numerical Methods -- 6.Discretization Methodology for Problems with SIS -- 7.Numerical Algorithms -- IV Convergence Analysis -- 8.



Convergence Issues in Stochastic Optimization -- V Advanced Topics -- 9.Multi-Agent Decision Problems -- Dual Effect for Multi-Agent Stochastic I-O Systems -- VI Appendices -- A. Basics in Analysis and Optimization -- B. Basics in Probability -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The focus of the present volume is stochastic optimization of dynamical systems in discrete time where - by concentrating on the role of information regarding optimization problems - it discusses the related discretization issues. There is a growing need to tackle uncertainty in applications of optimization. For example the massive introduction of renewable energies in power systems challenges traditional ways to manage them. This book lays out basic and advanced tools to handle and numerically solve such problems and thereby is building a bridge between Stochastic Programming and Stochastic Control. It is intended for graduates readers and scholars in optimization or stochastic control, as well as engineers with a background in applied mathematics.