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UNINA9910459704403321 |
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Autore |
Hackett Paul G. |
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Titolo |
Theos Bernard, the white lama : Tibet, yoga, and American religious life / / Paul G. Hackett |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (519 p.) |
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Yogis - United States |
Scholars - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Religion 1901-1945 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- One. Life in the Desert -- Two. New York and New Mexico -- Three. Two Parallel Paths (I) -- Four. Two Parallel Paths (II) -- Five. On Holy Ground -- Six. Pretense and Pretext -- Seven. A Well-Trodden Path -- Eight. Tibet, Tantrikas, and the Hero of Chaksam Ferry -- Nine. "The Clipper Ship of the Imagination" -- Ten. Yoga on Fifth Avenue -- Eleven. Tibetland and the Penthouse of the Gods -- Twelve. To Climb the Highest Mountains -- Thirteen. The Aftermath -- Fourteen. Postscript: The View from Ki, Sixty Years Later -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In 1937, Theos Casimir Bernard (1908-1947), the self-proclaimed "White Lama," became the third American in history to reach Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. During his stay, he amassed the largest collection of Tibetan texts, art, and artifacts in the Western hemisphere at that time. He also documented, in both still photography and 16mm film, the age-old civilization of Tibet on the eve of its destruction by Chinese Communists. Based on thousands of primary sources and rare archival materials, Theos Bernard, the White Lama recounts the real story behind the purported adventures of this iconic figure and his role in the |
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growth of America's religious counterculture. Over the course of his brief life, Bernard met, associated, and corresponded with the major social, political, and cultural leaders of his day, from the Regent and high politicians of Tibet to saints, scholars, and diplomats of British India, from Charles Lindbergh and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Gandhi and Nehru. Although hailed as a brilliant pioneer by the media, Bernard also had his flaws. He was an entrepreneur propelled by grandiose schemes, a handsome man who shamelessly used his looks to bounce from rich wife to rich wife in support of his activities, and a master manipulator who concocted his own interpretation of Eastern wisdom to suit his ends. Bernard had a bright future before him, but disappeared in India during the communal violence of the 1947 Partition, never to be seen again.Through diaries, interviews, and previously unstudied documents, Paul G. Hackett shares Bernard's compelling life story, along with his efforts to awaken America's religious counterculture to the unfolding events in India, the Himalayas, and Tibet. Hackett concludes with a detailed geographical and cultural trace of Bernard's Indian and Tibetan journeys, which shed rare light on the explorer's mysterious disappearance. |
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UNINA9910811707203321 |
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Titolo |
Global data management / / edited by Roberto Baldoni ... [et al.] |
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Amsterdam ; ; Washington, D.C., : IOS Press, c2006 |
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6610547696 |
1-280-54769-3 |
9786610547692 |
1-4237-9756-6 |
1-60750-183-X |
600-00-0439-7 |
1-60129-486-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Collana |
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Emerging communication : studies in new technologies and practices in communication, , 1566-7677 ; ; v. 8 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Database management |
Distributed databases |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Title page; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Data Management in Dynamic Networks of Agents; Data Object Storage in Large Scale Distributed Systems; Towards Efficient Complex Data Management Services in Peer-to-Peer Networks; Data Aggregation in Large Scale Distributed Systems; Quality of Service in Publish/Subscribe Middleware; Design and Implementation of Atlas P2P Architecture; Epidemic Dissemination for Probabilistic Data Storage; Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks; Systematic Design of P2P Technologies for Distributed Systems; Semantic Interoperability in the Large |
Data Management in Peer-to-Peer Data Integration SystemsBelief Propagation on Uncertain Schema Mappings in Peer Data Management Systems; Emergent Schema Management for P2P-Based Applications; Pragmatic Distributed Type Interoperability; Applications; Towards Scalability of Similarity Searching; From Web Servers to Ubiquitous Content Delivery; CROSSFLUX: An Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming; Author Index |
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Some researcher has created the vision of the 'data utility' as a key enabler towards ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Decentralization and replication would be the approach to make it resistant against security attacks. This book presents an organic view on the research and technologies, which bring us towards the realization of the vision. |
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