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| Buddhist Teachers: Nanavira Thera, Vajracharya, Won Gwang, Angel Kyodo Williams, L. S. Cousins, André Bareau | ||
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| 出版日期 | 2010.09.15 |
| 頁次 | 26 |
| 出版者 | Books LLC |
| 出版者網址 | http://booksllc.net/ |
| 出版地 | Memphis, TN, US [曼非斯, 田納西州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Chapters: Nanavira Thera, Vajracharya, Won Gwang, Angel Kyodo Williams, L. S. Cousins, André Bareau. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ñavra Thera born Harold Edward Musson (January 5 1920 July 5 1965) was an English Theravda Buddhist monk, ordained in 1950 in Sri Lanka. He is known as the author of Notes on Dhamma, which were later published by Path Press together with his letters in one volume titled Clearing the Path. Harold Edward Musson was born in the military barracks in England. He spend his youth in the environs of Alton, a small town in the Hampshire Downs and was equally influenced by the nearby town of Aldershot. His father, Edward Lionel Musson, was Captain in the 1st Manchester Regiment and it is very likely that young Harold spend some time in India or Southeast Asia while Lionel Musson was on his assignments. He went to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1938, and spent that summer learning Italian in Perugia, Italy. In June 1939, he sat for Mathematics, and in 1940, for Modern Languages (in which he earned a "Class One"). Immediately after the outbreak of war, in 1939, he enlisted in the Territorial Royal Artillery. In July 1941, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps, where his knowledge of modern languages was an important asset (he was an interrogator). In October 1942, he was promoted to Lieutenant, and in April 1944, to Temporary Captain. His overseas service with the British Eighth Army was spent primarily in Italy, from 1943 to 1946. Despite his military background, a family acquaintance spoke of him as having "completely resented warfare", a sentiment borne out in one of his letters, written in 1964 in Ceylon. Included in the letter were some sardonic comments to the effect that he had much enjoyed t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15822493 |
| ISBN | 9781157232254 (pbk); 1157232256 (pbk) |
| 點閱次數 | 337 |
| 建檔日期 | 2010.12.29 |
| 更新日期 | 2010.12.29 |
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