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  Station Information - Chinese classic texts
One of the aspects of the culture that allows its continuity is the importance given to those ancient texts, that shape the philosophies of the culture.
The Classic of Poetry (詩經 Shī Jīng), made up of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs; 74 minor festal songs, traditionally sung at court festivities; 31 major festal songs, sung at more solemn court ceremonies; and 40 hymns and eulogies, sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.
The Classic of History (書經 Shū Jīng) is a collection of documents and speeches alleged to have been written by rulers and officials of the early Zhou period and before.
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 Encyclopedia: Chinese-classic-texts
The Classic of Rites (禮記 Lǐ Jì), social forms and ceremonies (also spelled Liki), a restoration of the original Lijing, lost in the 3rd century BCE, describes ancient rites and court ceremonies.
The Classic of Music (樂經) (Yueh Ching) is sometime referred to as the sixth classic, but is lost by the time of the Han dynasty.
Classic of Rites The Classic of Rites (禮記 Lǐ Jì, or Liki) was one of the Five Classics of Confucianism; it described social forms, ancient rites, and court ceremonies.
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 Conservation Ecology: Rediscovering rites of passage: education, transformation, and the transition to sustainability
Rites of passage have thus played a crucial role in helping ensure the survival of individuals and their community as a whole.
Rites of passage are an important part of human development.
Rites of passage are a category of rituals that mark the passage of a person through the life cycle, from one stage to another over time, from one role or social position to another, integrating the human and cultural experiences with biological destiny, birth, reproduction, and death.
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 Chinese classic texts
One of the aspects of the culture that allows its stability is the importance given to certain ancient texts, or classics, that shape the philosophies of the culture.
Si4 shu1 wu3 jing1 (四書五經), the Four Books and the Five Classics, were mandated study of those Confucian scholars who dreamt to become government officials.
Hsiao Ching[?] (孝經 Xiao Jing[?]), the Classic of Filial Piety
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 Steven Foster - Passage Into Manhood
In attempting to remedy this by designing a meaningful rite of passage into manhood, we must be aware that a modern passage rite does not contain the full social force of a traditional one.
One of the most important components in any model of an adequate rite of male passage is the presence of older men, or elders, who supervise and enrich the progress of the young men through the ceremonial birth canal.
The classic archetypal male is unaccustomed to self-indulgence.
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 China - Traditional Literature
The Shijing (Classic of Poetry) is made up of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs; 74 minor festal songs, traditionally sung at court festivities; 31 major festal songs, sung at more solemn court ceremonies; and 40 hymns and eulogies, sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.
The Shujing (Classic of Documents) is a collection of documents and speeches alleged to have been written by rulers and officials of the early Zhou period and before.
Subsequent writers of classical poetry lived under the shadow of their great Tang predecessors, and although there were many fine poets in subsequent dynasties, none reached the level of this period.
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 Chinese classic texts - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Classic of Changes or I Ching (易經 Yì Jīng), a manual of divination based on the eight trigrams attributed to the mythical emperor Fu Xi.
Wengu text database (http://afpc.asso.fr/wengu/wg/wengu.php) with Classic of Poetry, Analects of Confucius, Tao Te Ching and I Ching, in Chinese and translations.
Chinese classic texts, List of Chinese classic texts, The Four Books (四書 Sì shū), The Five Classics (五經 Wǔ jīng), Classics of Taoism, Classics of Mohism, Classics of Legalism, Classics of military science, Classics of the history of China, Other classics, Related topics and External links.
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 Rites (from pre-Columbian civilizations) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-25)
Classic civilization in the Maya lowlands: Tzakol phase
Many of the most important and common rites are connected with the biological stages of life—birth, maturity, reproduction, and death; other rites celebrate changes that are wholly cultural, such as...
The Antiochene rite is sometimes called the West Syrian rite to distinguish it from the...
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 QuickSearch - The Five Tibetan Rites: Chet Day's Annotated Version of Peter Kelder's Classic Tibetan Rejuvenation Rites
The five rites is by far the most effective; with the most results in the least amount of time.
The five rites are five "exercise" movements with demo illustrations that should be shown compulsorily to any illustrator of contemporary exercise teaching books.
Others practice the five rites during their lunch break as a fabulous pick-me-up that carries them through the afternoon hours when everyone else in the office is slumping like crazy;
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 Chinese literature - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Classic of History (書經, Shū Jīng) contains examples of early Chinese prose.
The Classic of Rites (禮記, Lǐ Jì) describes ancient rites and court ceremonies.
The above 4 classics are often called the Si Da Ming Zhu or the Four Classics.
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 Chinese classic texts
The Doctrine of the Golden Mean (中庸 Zhōng Yóng), the name of another chapter in the Classic of Rites.
Mo Zi, attributed to the philosopher of the same name, Mo Zi.
The Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government or Zizhi Tongjian, attributed to Sima Guang.
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 CHINESE CLASSIC TEXTS
One of the aspects of the culture that allows its continuity is the importance given to certain ancient texts, or classics, that shape the philosophies of the culture.
Sì shū wǔ jīng (四書 五經), the Four Books and the Five Classics, were mandated study of those Confucian scholars who wished to become government officials.
Book of Music (樂) is sometime referred to as the sixth classic, but is lost.
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 Chinese Cultural Studies: Ban Zhao (45-116 CE): Lessons for a Woman, 80 CE
Confucian doctrine, however, did not accord women a status equal to that of men, because women were generally regarded as unworthy or incapable of a literary education.
Therefore the "Rites" [The Classic of Rites] honor union of man and woman; and in the "Book of Poetry" [The Classic of Odes] the "First Ode" manifesrs the principle of marriage.
According to the "Rites," it is the rule to begin to teach children to read at the age of eight years, and by the age of fifteen years they ought then to be ready for cultural training.
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 Classical Chinese Literature Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-25)
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The Classic of Poetry (诗经, Shī Jīng), made up of 305 poems.
The Si Da Ming Zhu or the Four Classics of Chinese Literature:
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 Tolerance.it
The number of books included in the Confucian canon is not fixed (certain texts have been considered classics in some periods, and not in others).
One of the better-known subdivisions is the one that refers to the "Five Classics" (Wu Jing) and the "Four Books" (Si Shu).
Confucian teachings are primarily concerned with the moral rules of conduct that all persons must follow, not because they are obliged to, but because, after having learned them through rigorous study, they know exactly how to behave in society.
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 ElSEBOU
There's nothing like it dealing with rites of passage, particularly in an urban setting, in the Middle East.
This particular sebou' is celebrated for twins, a boy and a girl, in a rising middle class Muslim family in urban Egypt.
Anthropologist Fadwa El Guindi portrays the sebou' ritual as a rite of passage with the universal three phases of transition (separation, liminality, incorporation)} and as the key ceremony in an individual's life cycle until marriage.
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 Dissertations, Essays on Confucianism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-25)
The hexagrams are symbols composed of broken and continuous lines; one is selected to foretell the future based on the casting of 49 sticks.
The Ch'un Ch'iu or Spring and Autumn Annals: a history of the state of Lu from 722 to 484 BCE.
The Li Ching or Classic of Rites: a group of three books on the LI the rites of propriety
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 Chinese literature -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-25)
The (additional info and facts about Classic of Poetry) Classic of Poetry (詩經, Shī Jīng), made up of 305 poems.
The (additional info and facts about Classic of Rites) Classic of Rites (禮記, Lǐ Jì) describes ancient rites and court ceremonies.
The Classic of The Way and its Virtue or (additional info and facts about Tao Te Ching) Tao Te Ching (道德經, Dao De Jing), attributed to (additional info and facts about Lao Zi) Lao Zi.
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 Scriptures from the World's Religions
Christianity, the religion founded after Jesus Christ, recognizes only one canonical collection, although the texts it comprises vary between the different Christian branches (Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox).
or "Classic of Changes": the description of a divination system involving 64 hexagrams, symbols composed of broken and continuous lines.
or "Classic of Rites": a group of three books dealing with the rites of propriety.
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 Classic Novels - In 5 Minutes A Day: Classic Novels 6
his is a hard to find classic concerning a mysterious island where penguins rule.
Join us on this remarkable look into our own politics and society through the eyes of Anatole France.
A humorous critique of customs and laws, rituals and rites...
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 Easter Liminal Space: The tomb as liminal space: Some contemporary versions
Boundaries are an insult to this self that we have all constructed.
Classic initiation rites say that the candidate must be led into some sort of boundaried “tomb.” Apparently we don’t really know what life is until we know what death is. You can’t experience rebirth until you have somehow died.
We Americans think we are an exception to this pattern, and we create a totally new and unfounded spirituality of constant and false resurrections.
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 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | The essential Dylan Thomas
A classic rites-of-passage tale, as a young man comes of age in the grown-up environments of newspaper office and Swansea pubs.
Like The Peaches, it is collected in the book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog which is the best entry to Dylan's prose writing.
A classic piece of social observation, mixing humour, detail and pathos.
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 Last Rites (from San Francisco) - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
Last Rites had one foot in the hippie past and one foot in the grave.
That?s not to say Last Rites is a punk band, far from it, but they?ve come out of that crowd.
So it was in late ?83 or ?84 when I first heard a demo from a new band, Last Rites, called ?The Pillar of Fire?.
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 Classic Horror Triple Feature - Rites of Dracula/ Dementia 13/ Night of the Living Dead
Whether it's Voodoo or Hoodoo, critics agree there is lots of mumbo-jumbo in The Skeleton Key, a movie where Kate Hudson plays a live-in caretaker to two mysterious New Orleans residents.
Jennifer Aniston stars in two films with themes of adultery, with dramatic (Derailed) and comic (the forthcoming Rumor Has It) results.
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Classic Horror Triple Feature - Rites of Dracula/ Dementia 13/ Night of the Living Dead to receive a rating.
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 The Circle of Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-25)
One is chosen to be a Candomble initiate by an orixa, a god of the Yoruba pantheon.
Note: there are three classic parts to all rites of passage (tripartite): 1) separation from normal life, 2) liminal (on threshold) state of betwixt and between, 3) reincorporation into society with new status.
During the Candomble, initiates are separated for 6 months and their heads are shaved.
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 Vitamin Z - The Official Web Site , A comprehensive web page on 80's band Vitamin Z. Bio's,Photos, Discography and ...
Through my efforts to get their classic album "Rites Of Passage" reissued on compact disc I got to speak to David Bates the man who signed the band to Phonogram in the U.K., as well as the producer of that album Ross Cullum.
Hi-Bias continues to deliver the classic sound of the 80’s with Retro:Active 4.
cds is enjoying listening to some classic tracks that still sound amazing in the year 1999.
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 Blasphemy, catharsis, and self-initiation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-25)
Contrary to popular stereotype, rites of blasphemy are not central to most forms of Satanism.
However, occasional rites of blasphemy can be very beneficial, especially for people plagued by irrational fears and guilt feelings leftover from their upbringing, as explained in the first article listed below.
And, for new Satanists in general, I recommend a rite of blasphemy as part of self-initiation.
www.theistic-satanism.org /rituals/blasphemy/index.html   (206 words)

  
 The Five Tibetan Rites: Chet Day's Annotated Version of Peter Kelder's Classic Tibetan Rejuvenation Rites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-25)
Heidi G. Linden, NJ Chet, I have been doing the Five Rites now for about 3 weeks and I am definitely feeling more energetic.
As soon as I got it, I started to practice the Rites, and started to see dramatic results almost immediately.
It left the first day that I started practicing the Rites and has not been back since.
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