Robin Elliott & Gordon E. Smith (eds), <i>Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts</i> (2010)

David Gordon WHITE ( 1996 ) : The Alchemical Body . Siddha Traditions in

Although this study focuses mainly on the northern Siddha tradition, White continually returns to the commonality of intention and understanding between the geographically separate northern Naths and southern Rasa Siddhas. White draws out a number of tantalising parallels between the Rasa Siddhas and the Taoist alchemists. His study also suggests that the more monk-like Rasa Siddhas of the sout...

Animal Welfare in Different Human Cultures, Traditions and Religious Faiths

Animal welfare has become a growing concern affecting acceptability of agricultural systems in many countries around the world. An earlier Judeo-Christian interpretation of the Bible (1982) that dominion over animals meant that any degree of exploitation was acceptable has changed for most people to mean that each person has responsibility for animal welfare. This view was evident in some ancie...

IMUSIC: Programming Non-Music Applications with Music

This paper discusses the implementation of a tone-based programming/scripting language called MUSIC (the name is an acronym for Music-Utilizing Script Input Code). In a MUSIC program, input and output consists entirely of musical tones or rhythms. MUSIC is not focused on musicprogramming per se, but on general programming. It can be used for teaching the basics of script-based programming, comp...

Quran and traditions on purgatory

Purgatory life of man and the stages following it have always occupied human mind. Some verses of Quran such as Al-muminun 100-101, Al-Imran 169-170, Ya-Sin 26-27, Al-Mu`min 11 and 46, Al-Munafiqun 10 and An-Nahl 32 clearly describe purgatory world and its properties. As is understood everlasting life of martyrs of holy wars and their rewards has been regarded as a proof for purgatory and its g...

Christopher Elliott