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| | Xuanzang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Xuanzang (Chinese:玄奘; pinyin: xuán zàng; Wade-Giles: Hsüan-tsang; Cantonese IPA: jyn4dzɔŋ1; Cantonese Jyutping:jyun4zong1) (602-644/664) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk. | | | Xuanzang was fully ordained as a monk in 622, at the age of twenty. | | | The Xuanzang of the novel is the reincarnation of a disciple of Gautama Buddha, and is protected on his journey by three notorious monsters. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanzang
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| | Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: British: Gothic: Lewis, Matthew |
| | Matilda · cached · A look at the character Matilda in "The Monk." How her shifting image reflects the moral decline of the male protagonist Ambrosio. | | | Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis · cached · Multilingual bibliography on the Gothic author. | | | Mathew Lewis · cached · Literary biography of the author of "The Monk." |
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| | Matthew G. Lewis: A History of Horror |
| | Its concern with sex and violence seems so revealing of its author's darker feelings that we might expect him to want to distance himself from his creation, and the monk himself is a character who is both a criminal and a victim. | | | Such was the success of The Monk when it was published in 1796 that for the rest of his life its author, Matthew Gregory Lewis, was commonly referred to as "Monk" Lewis. | | | It was here that he claimed he wrote The Monk. |
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http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/lewis.html
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| | Anthology of World Literature : Discovery Modules : 5 : Overview |
| | By the time the Ming novelist compiled these materials, the determined Buddhist monk had been transformed into a fictional character whose journey is made possible by an enchanting group of animal-like pilgrims who collect around him and guide his way. | | | Nicknamed Tripitaka, the "three baskets" of Buddhist scriptures, the T& monk takes his identity from the holy writ he sought and found. | | | But the travel narratives of Jonathan Swift and Voltaire are carefully presented as the work of fictional characters, precisely because the real authors knew that they could be endangered by their caustic criticism of contemporary government and society, even if their observations were veiled in fiction and displaced to distant and imaginary places. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/internal/nawol/discovery_modules/dm5_1.htm
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| | Zazen: Ango & Sesshin |
| | Esoteric Buddhism was studied by the Japanese monk Kobo Daishi Kukai (774-835), who brought the Mantrayana school from China to Japan, calling it the “Shingon” school. | | | Dogen Zenji was a Dharma successor of the Ch’an/ Zen school. | | | It consists of 95 fascicles, or books, expanding over 1200 pages, explaining his philosophical and practical view on Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and Buddhist practice. |
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http://www.za-zen.net/mona-ango.html
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| | Buddhist meditation -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | While meditation is fundamental for all Buddhist monks, many... | | | Monks and devout laypeople believe that these three elements of their religion shelter and protect them in the world. | | | While celibacy has been a normal requirement of the Buddhist clergy (all of whom are monks), many of the clergy in pre-20th century Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Japan married. |
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| | Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk |
| | Maria Monk, however, refused to be shaken in her testimony, and steadfastly avowed the truth of what she had written. | | | I T was over a hundred years ago—in 1835—that Maria Monk, making her way from Canada to New York, startled the world with her "awful disclosures" of life in a Convent and, since that time, controversy has raged over her story. | | | Virulent attacks were made upon the book and every effort was made to destroy public confidence in the character of its author. |
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| | Buddhism Glossary |
| | This is where the monk attains supernormal powers, sees his past lives, and gains wisdom of the true character of reality. | | | In the earliest centuries of Buddhism, monks were itinerant, wandering for nine months of the year. | | | Theravada Buddhism, which is in the area of the monsoons, still keeps the rain retreats, even though its monks have long ago ceased to wander. |
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http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/religionet/er/buddhism/BGLOSSRY.HTM
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| | Sun Wukong |
| | Some scholars believe that the character Sun Wukong was partly based on Hanuman, the "monkey god" of Hindu described in a book by the historical Xuanzang. | | | The novel narrates his adventures from birth, in particular how he accompanied the monk Xuanzang, also known as Tangseng, to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India. | | | Son Goku, the central character in the Japanese manga Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z and anime Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT, is partly based on Sun Wukong. |
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http://www.tocatch.info/en/The_Monkey_King.htm
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| | Chinese Text Sampler: Readings in Chinese Literature, History, and Popular Culture |
| | Written in the Ming dynasty by Wu Cheng'en, this supernatural novel recounts the pilgrimage of a Chinese monk and his animal companions to India in the 7th century. | | | The determined efforts of the principal characters to sustain some degree of dignity and normalcy in their lives make for a damning critique of an intrusive political system whose methods and ideologies seem at times to border on the insane. | | | If you'd prefer to view the readings using traditional characters, click here.) In addition, one of the Sampler texts is always featured in the Chinese Text Reader, an online tool that allows you to read Chinese texts without the need for a print dictionary. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/sampler.html
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| | MCQ: News Desk: GRATIA DEI. A JOURNEY THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES |
| | Using a pocket computer, visitors select one of the four characters (the knight, merchant, monk, or peasant) and must answer questions about their character in each of the exhibition’s six sections. | | | If you’ve got the courage, you can join the military orders to defend the Church against the enemies of God or, better yet, you can go to heaven by becoming a choir monk. | | | The answers can be found among the items on display (texts, objects, images, vignettes, and sound and audiovisual clips). |
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http://www.mcq.org/presse/aagratia_jeu.html
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| | Lit. Crit. Reports |
| | "The Monk" Imagination Indulged: The Irrational in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. | | | Gose believes that Lewis' confusion of sexual roles is manifested in his character Ambrosio, because "Lewis suggested a resemblance between himself and Mrs. | | | Gose sights Lewis' dressing in his mother's clothing, and his imitating an actress's shriek, as events in Lewis' childhood that illustrate the cause of his sexual confusion. |
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http://las.alfred.edu/~egl/grove/1998/egl313/reports/cariannlitcrit.html
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| | Xuanzang (fictional character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In recent years, a mural on the wall of a mountain pass on the way to the China/India border was discovered that is purported to show the real Xuanzang flanked by a small hairy man that some scholars have theorized might have been the insipration for the character of the Monkey King. | | | Xuanzang is occasionally mistaken for Ksitigarbha, a bodhisattva, due the fact that Ksitigarbha is often portrayed with the robes and staff of a monk. | | | This page was last modified 19:33, 18 August 2005. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanzang_(fictional_character)
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| | OUP: Monk: Lewis |
| | The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal his guilt. | | | It contains many typical Gothic elements - seduction in a monastery, lustful monks, evil Abbesses, bandits and beautiful heroines. | | | `The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature', wrote Sir Walter Scott. |
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| | MARIA MONK - LoveToKnow Article on MARIA MONK |
| | 1817-1850), an adventuress and impostor, who, coming to New York in 1835, claimed to have escaped from the Montreal nunnery of the Hotel Dieu, concerning which, and the practices prevalent there, she circulated sensational charges in Awful Disclosures by Maria Monk (1836). | | | To properly cite this MARIA MONK article in your work, copy the complete reference below: | | | GEORGE, 1st DUKE OF ALBEMARLE MONK (or MONCK) » |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MO/MONK_MARIA.htm
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| | East Asian History Period 1: Traditional |
| | One of China's most popular series of stories, this novel recounts the legends of Monkey and his companions who accompanied the seventh-century Buddhist monk Xuanzang (Hsuan-tsang) on his sixteen-year pilgrimage along the silk route to India to bring Buddhist sutras back to China. | | | In Farley's fictional account, the compassionate king is inspired to create a simple system of writing to replace the complex 10,000-character Chinese method after a young boy who tends his garden expresses a deep desire to learn to read and write. | | | It turns out that creating the 28 symbols of the new alphabet is considerably easier than convincing the Korean people that using it will not anger the gods. |
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http://www.coe.ohio-state.edu/mmerryfield/global_resources/modules/EAHTraditionalEra.htm
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| | Search Results for witted - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The novel is based on the actual 7th-century pilgrimage of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang... | | | Often cast as a worldly and corrupt churchman, he appears first as a character in the Latin Ecbasis... | | | in theatre, comic female character usually in the role of a chambermaid. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=witted&submit=Find&source=MWTAB
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| | Bay Area Animation Society - News |
| | also known as Journey to the West, is a mythical novel by Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), telling of Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang's | | | character when they are nearby, if the friendship is strong between | | | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame is now accepting nominations for induction into the 2006 class of honorees. |
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http://www.dotsumi.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=182
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| | Monk (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Monk (character class), character class from the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game | | | Monks, a fictional character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | | | Meddling Monk, a character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_(disambiguation)
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| | AD&D Character Class: Monk |
| | The Monk was an original character class in the PH; but it was largely rewritten in the oriental rules. | | | At level 8, the character may choose to live on the monastery grounds at the expense of the monastery (deemed to be a prime beneficiary of the donations of all of those lower level monks). | | | During this time, the character may not adventure, but must undergo various rituals and severe self-denial to atone for his error--and a period of purification and reflection at the monastery is a vital part of character advancement. |
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http://www.mjyoung.net/dungeon/char/clas017.html
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| | Character Creation Analysis |
| | As a character advances in level, along with increases to Hit Points (HPs), Skill Points, and special Class Features (like Spellcasting, Uncanny Dodge, and Monk's Armor Class bonuses) their Saving Throws, Base Attack Bonus (BAB), maximum Skill Rank, sometimes number of Feats, and even even more rare, their Attribute Scores themselves increase. | | | This can be a class that the character has already developed in or a completely new class (to a maximum of three classes in NWN). | | | Thus, a 7th level character of Monk 4/Cleric 3 would only have an Unarmed BAB of +3 and would not add in the Cleric's BAB of +2 to their unarmed strikes. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~bretwd/NWN_Charts.htm
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| | Monk: Information From Answers.com |
| | The Monk is a character class from the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game which is typically portrayed as a master of martial arts. | | | The Monk is a character class introduced by the first EverQuest expansion, The Ruins of Kunark released April 24, 2000. | | | The Monk class also has the capability to mend wounds, which gives a small boost to his or her hit points. |
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| | You Got Chocolate in my Peanut Butter : Optimizing Your Secondary Profession - Guild Wars Forums - GW Guru |
| | Warrior secondary is a good one for characters generaly in Melee range- either one of the weapon skills for melee combat, or tactics for defense. | | | 'characters' that are built around nothing more than a collection of superior numbers and efficient ouput have always felt bland and empty to me. I'd rather be able to invest something into my character and work through challenges accordingly, then to roll over everything and feel no accomplishment in doing so. | | | You've limited your character in a fairly fundamental way, you might achieve some success but there's a big chink in your armor, so to speak. |
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http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=168
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| | Monk (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Monk (character class), character class from the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game | | | Monks, a fictional character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | | | The Monk, a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis |
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| | Blogger: Email Post to a Friend |
| | In this adventure, there is also Dalamar (Vincent's character who is a Gnome Sorceror), the Drunken Monk (Ian's character who's a half-Elvish drunken boxer Monk), Leiff (Paul's character who is a half-Elvish Ranger), Manella (Anna's character who's a Barbarian woman!) and Calchis Fallin (John's character who a death-worshipping human Clerik). | | | Fallin isn't perticularly liked by the rest of the part because he's a wierd death worshipping dude! | | | He has travelled all over the world especially in the far east where he studied under various masters learning various mental disciplines, chi control and alchemy over the past 8 years and has now found himself in midevil England. |
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