[PDF] A Bride Reborn eBook

Author : Anita E Viljoen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1304197050

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A Five-Part Romance. Part I, takes place in 1454, were Elle is born as Annabelle Savoie. She finds a body washed up on the Chateau de Savoie, France, beach. She revives and finds him to be the Sovereign of a large coven, Lucien Vallianto a very powerful vampire. They fall in love, marry and he takes her and her brother, Marcus Savoie back to his villa on the Island of Sardegna, Italy. There Ella is murdered before the Sovereign could turn her. Part II, Elle, in 1690 is reborn as Isabella Savoie. Part III takes place in 1921, Ella is born as Jezebel Savage a descendent of the Savoie family. Part IV Present Day, Ellouise Conway works with the coven and together they succeed in turning Ellouise as their queen, but she looses her trust in the Sovereign and his love for her. Part V Conclusion, Elle has to trust the sovereign again, identify the murderer and accept her future as a vampire without the one she loves more than life itself. Does she finally succeed?

Author : TSI
Publisher : Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
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Category : Fiction
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Mia lost everything, even her own life, because of her sister's betrayal. Getting reborn, she took back everything, including the man she loves with his help. After reborn she has only one principle in her life” Love him unconditionally, trust him, spoil him” One day her man asked her” aren't you afraid if you trust me blindly and give me too much freedom, someone else might steal me from you? "No, I'm not afraid” she confidently answered him. Her man left speechless by her overconfidence.

Author : Bob L Lampkin
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2020-04-04
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Dive into a panoramic description of why we can never go back to the way things were, how we got here and the glory that awaits when we heed the call to leave and embrace the new.

Author : Robert DeCaroli
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2024-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1614298904

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Across Buddhist traditions, the five senses—sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch—are perceived both positively and negatively. Share our eminent scholars’ fascination and deep insight into what makes a sensuous experience good or bad. Following on the exhibition Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia at the National Museum of Asian Art, ten eminent scholars present their insights into Buddhism’s fascinating relation with the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch), which careens between delight and disgust, rarely finding a middle way. While much of Buddhist literature is devoted to overcoming the attachment that dooms us to rebirth in samsara, primarily by deprecating sense experience and showing that whatever brings us sensual pleasure leads only to physical and mental pain, in texts such as the Lotus Sutra, sensory powers do not offer sensory pleasure but rather knowledge, clear observation, and ability to teach the Dharma. Considering such religiously and historically contingent ambiguity, this volume presents each of the five senses in two instantiations, the good and the bad, opening up the discourse on the senses across Buddhist traditions. Just as the museum departed from tradition to incorporate sensory experiences into the exhibition, this volume is a new direction in scholarship to humanize Buddhist studies by foregrounding sensory experience and practice, inviting the reader to think about the senses in a focused manner and shifting our understanding of Buddhism from the conceptual to the material or practical, from the idealized to the human, from the abstract to the grounded, from the mind to the body.

Author : Andromache Karanika
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2024-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198884583

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Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greece traces the wedding song tradition, its imagery, and its tropes as a genre that became crystallized throughout the ages. It explores how wedding poetics permeates ancient Greek literature. It first analyzes how explicit or implicit matrimonial references shape archaic epic diction and become an integral part of epic discourse; orally circulating texts, such as wedding songs, could have a life of their own but, beyond their original context, could also become an integral part of a different genre, especially epic and drama. This author discusses the multiple platforms that enrich the wedding song tradition, including children's songs, hymns, paeans, and ululations, arguing for a combination of ritualized discourse with ludic childhood poetics. With an approach from cognitive and trauma studies, such references can be more revealing of the female experience than previously acknowledged. This book resists the idea that a wedding constitutes an initiation ritual, arguing that what on the surface may seem like a transition to a new phase reveals other underlying trends that work against the concept of a passage. It further considers how emotion is staged and revisits the poetics of return by looking at patterns such as the eloping, returning, failed, and dead bride. Finally, the theme of separation and return as an exemplification of a distinct female nostos is revisited in female-authored poetry, which helps us decode the complex interweaving of wedding performances and lamentation, among other types of performance.

Author : Patrick Olivelle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Asramas (Four stages of life).
ISBN : 019508327X

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The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism--Ä Å›rama and vará1‡a--Ä Å›rama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the Ä Å›rama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world and its position within Brahmanical theology, and assesses its significance within the history of Indian religion. Throughout, he argues that the Ä Å›rama system is primarily a theological construct and that the system and its history should be carefully distinguished from the socio-religious institutions comprehended by the system and from their respective histories.

Author : Leopold Damrosch Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400853737

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In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Mu Han
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1637079834

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In her previous life, her fiance destroyed her face, crippled her limbs, killed her parents, and mute her little brother for her family's property ... He was extremely vicious and shameless, but he didn't know that the most valuable thing in his corporation was her intelligence. She was reborn then. She would make all her enemies pay with their blood!

Author : Naomi Appleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139916408

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Buddhism and Jainism share the concepts of karma, rebirth, and the desirability of escaping from rebirth. The literature of both traditions contains many stories about past, and sometimes future, lives which reveal much about these foundational doctrines. Naomi Appleton carefully explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia, examining portrayals of the different realms of rebirth, the potential paths and goals of human beings, and the biographies of ideal religious figures. Appleton also deftly surveys the ability of karma to bind individuals together over multiple lives, and the nature of the supernormal memory that makes multi-life stories available in the first place. This original study not only sheds light on the individual preoccupations of Buddhist and Jain tradition, but contributes to a more complete history of religious thought in South Asia, and brings to the foreground long-neglected narrative sources.