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Kim
Rudyard Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Born in India and growing into early manhood, Kim is the son of an Irish soldier born under British Imperial rule in 19th century India. Left in the care of a half-caste woman, Kim is free to explore the back allies and bazaars of Lahore. But when he meets with his father's old regiment he trades his native clothes for European suits and abandons his free wheeling life for the trappings of a secret agent. He wants to play the \"great game' of imperialism. He is also spiritually bound to the lama, an old ascetic priest. As the two men become fired by a quest that takes them across the country, Kim tries to reconcile these opposing impulses. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, Kim captures at once the opulence of India's exotic landscape and the uneasy presence of the British Raj.
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The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World
The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Set in the final days of the Qing Empire when the Russian and British empires were expanding into Central Asia, this work examines the interplay of religious, economic and political power among peoples who acknowledged the religious authority of Tibet's Dalai Lama. It focuses on diplomatic initiatives involving the 13th Dalai Lama . and other Tibetan Buddhist hierarchs . during and after his exile in Mongolia and China, as well as his relations with Mongols, and with Buryat, Kalmyk, and other Russian Buddhists. It demonstrates how these factors shaped historical processes in the region, not least the reformulations of both group identity and political consciousness.
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Who is the Dalai Lama?
\"Get to know the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader and one of the most popular world leaders today.
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Crazy for wisdom : the making of a mad yogin in fifteenth-century Tibet
Best known today as the author of the Life of Milarepa, Tsangnyön Heruka (1452-1507) was one of the most influential mad yogins of Tibet. Stefan Larsson's Crazy for Wisdom, describes Tsangnyön Heruka's life, based on narratives by his disciples, and examines an unexpected aspect of fifteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist practice.
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The Issues of the Sixth Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Qing Information System on Tibet
After having been deceived by the Géluk government about the death of the Fifth Dalai Lama for almost 15 years, the Qing empire decided to strengthen its surveillance on Tibet by deploying espionage networks operated by spy lamas based in Xining and Dartsédo on Sino–Tibetan borderlands. Accordingly, the Qing successfully intervened in the reincarnation system of Tibetan Buddhism by taking advantage of the Sixth Dalai Lama’s issues. By establishing a new system of espionage operated by a eunuch lama serving in the imperial court, the Qing finally deposed the Sixth Dalai Lama and secretly murdered him in 1706. The Sixth Dalai Lama’s death embodied the monumental transition that significantly shaped the destiny of Tibet, China, and Inner Asia in the following three centuries. By investigating the Sixth Dalai Lama’s controversies, this article sheds light on how the Qing dynasty embarked on constructing its imperial enterprise in Inner Asia based on intelligence collection and information manipulation. By using multilingual sources in Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchu, and Chinese, the present study shows how the Qing empire overcame the challenges of information deficiency and lingual differences by developing intelligence networks and multilingual mechanisms to consolidate its governance in Inner Asia.
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Evaluating Arrhythmia Risk in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Treated with Aclidinium/Formoterol Fumarate and Other Inhaled Bronchodilators: A Post-Authorization Safety Study
Cristina Rebordosa,1 Jaume Aguado,1 Jennifer Bartsch,2 Nuria Saigi-Morgui,1 Anne-Elie Carsin,1 Raquel Garcia-Esteban,1 Elena Ignatova,3 Daniel Freedman,3 Susana Perez-Gutthann,1 Elena Rivero-Ferrer1 1RTI Health Solutions, Barcelona, Spain; 2RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; 3Covis Pharma Gmbh, a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Woburn, MA, USACorrespondence: Cristina Rebordosa, RTI Health Solutions, Av. Diagonal, 605, 9-1, Barcelona, 08028, Spain, Tel +34 932 41 77 66, Email crebordosa@rti.orgPurpose: A post-authorization safety study program examined the cardiovascular safety of the long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) aclidinium bromide monotherapy and the LAMA/long-acting β2-agonist (LABA) aclidinium bromide/formoterol fumarate. We assessed frequency and risk of any cardiac arrhythmias (CA), atrial fibrillation (AF), and serious ventricular arrhythmias (SVA) in aclidinium and aclidinium/formoterol users.Patients and Methods: This population-based cohort study included adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) initiating COPD medications in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum database (Jan 2015-Mar 2021). CA, AF, and SVA incidence rate ratios (IRR) were estimated using Poisson regression models for continuous current users initiating aclidinium and aclidinium/formoterol versus LABA, and during the first episode of current single use for aclidinium versus LAMA and aclidinium/formoterol versus LAMA/LABA, adjusting for clinically relevant covariables.Results: The study included a total of 248,148 initiators. For CA and AF, respectively, adjusted IRRs (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) ranged from 0.98 (0.69– 1.41) for LAMA/LABA to 2.08 (1.36– 3.18) for aclidinium/formoterol and from 0.83 (0.55– 1.24) for LAMA/LABA to 1.85 (1.15– 3.00) for aclidinium/formoterol versus current LABA use. For current single use (first episode), adjusted IRRs (95% CIs) for CA and AF were 1.46 (0.93– 2.29) and 1.57 (0.94– 2.62) for aclidinium versus other LAMAs, and 2.15 (1.33– 3.49) and 1.79 (0.96– 3.33) for aclidinium/formoterol versus LAMA/LABA, respectively. There were few SVA events.Conclusion: CA and AF risks were increased for most study medications compared with LABA. Increased risks of CA and AF for several medications relative to LABA, LAMA, or LAMA/LABA may be driven by differences in baseline characteristics (eg, COPD severity).Keywords: aclidinium, arrhythmia, LAMA, LABA, United Kingdom
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The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World
The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Set in the final days of the Qing Empire when the Russian and British empires were expanding into Central Asia, this work examines the interplay of religious, economic and political power among peoples who acknowledged the religious authority of Tibet's Dalai Lama. It focuses on diplomatic initiatives involving the 13th Dalai Lama ‒ and other Tibetan Buddhist hierarchs - and after his exile in Mongolia and China, as well as his relations with Mongols, and with Buryat, Kalmyk, and other Russian Buddhists. It demonstrates how these factors shaped historical processes in the region, not least the eformulations of both group identity and political consciousness.
Professor Ishihama Yumiko is a tenured faculty member of the School of Education, Waseda University, Japan, and the author of a number of English and Japanese language articles in the field of Tibetan and Central Asian history.
Alex McKay is a retired lecturer and research fellow at London University SOAS, UCL, and the IIAS (Leiden). He is the author of four monographs and 45 articles on Indo-Tibetan history, and editor/co-editor of five collected works.
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The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World
The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Set in the final days of the Qing empire when Russian and British empires were expanding into Central Asia, this work examines the interplay of religious, economic and political power among peoples who acknowledged the religious authority of Tibet's Dalai Lama. It focuses on diplomatic initiatives involving the 13th Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhist hierarchs during and after his exile in Mongolia and China, as well as his relations with Mongols, and with Buriat, Kalmyk, and other Russian Buddhists. It demonstrates how these factors shaped historical processes in the region, not least the reformulations of both group identity and political consciousness. +Pre-order from Rest of the World External Link
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The Thirteenth Dalai Lama on the run (1904-1906) : archival documents from Mongolia
The Thirteenth Dalai Lama on the Run (1904-1906) is a facsmile collection comprising over 900 original archival documents from Mongolia relating to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama's exile in Mongolia in the aftermath of the British invasion of Tibet in 1904.
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