Pure Land Teachings and Tanka Poetry

Pure Land Buddhist View of Du©kha1

that any sort of reference to it falls into delusive attachment to that reality itself, which is none other than its dogmatic substantialization. In this respect, our understanding of the bodhisattva’s compassion must be in itself non-substantialistic, and, moreover, we should not consider the compassion as if there were anything more ultimate or real behind and in addition to that bodhisattva’...

Parsing And Case Analysis in TANKA

The TANKA project seeks to build a model of a technical domain by semi-automatically processing unedited English text that describes this domain. Each sentence is parsed and conceptual elements are extracted from the parse. Concepts are derived from the Case structure of a sentence, and added to a conceptual network that represents knowledge about the domain. The DIPETT parser has a particularl...

Ancient teachings, modern lessons.

The Teachings of Failure

My first duty is to thank you sincerely for the honour which you have done me in calling me to the presidential chair of this Society. If I do not proceed to enlarge upon my unfitness for a position of such responsibility, it is not that I am not conscious of it; but you are already too familiar with the expression of the sense of self-distrust which appears to be inseparable from the assumptio...

Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy: An Essay on Biblical Poetry

OETRY is not only central in the title, but for the study of the Hebrew Bible. There is no intention here of disvaluing the prose of the Bible, which constitutes the first major literary composition in that medium ever produced, so far as I am aware, whether we speak of the so-called Court History and the J source of the Pentateuch of the 10th century B.C., or the composite whole which we may c...