Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet; a place where peoples from Indian America; Latin America; Africa; the Caribbean; and Europe converged. Essays by Florida experts in both Spanish and English on the influence of the Spanish in Florida from the first explorers to the latest Hispanic migrations into Miami. Topics include Hernando de Soto; Menendez; Plants of the New World; Disease and the Indians; Mario Sanchez; Jos? Marti. Spanish and English on facing pages so that the book can serve in language instructions.
#140411 in Books Snow Lion 1997-01-01 1997-01-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.97 x 1.05 x 5.96l; 1.32 #File Name: 1559390727400 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of MahamudraBy Zen ElderThe Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra by the Dalai Lama: I was looking for a book on Mahamudra practice that would have some depth; but not overwhelm me. The first 90 pages are an introduction to Mahamudra practice by Alexander Berzin. Then there is a text on Mahamudra by the First Panchen Lama. The Dalai Lama comments on the text and then on the First Panchen Lama's discourse on the text. I'm still reading the first section; but the explanations are understandable; with practices to follow. As a Zen Buddhist; I'm finding the teachings helpful to my practice.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Such a simple concept; such huge explanation neededBy Edgar A. BrownI first found amusing that this relates to basically four pages of text that describe the Mahamudra tradition. Explained by HH; an explanation that was commented and expanded on again by HH; and then prefaced by the writer: Reality is as real as it can get; our thoughts are not "reality" regardless of how real these seem. This tradition is a Buddhist approach to changing our mindset into this "reality-based" one.The basis of this tradition was mostly rediscovered by a sequence of philosophers such as Descartes; Hume; Kierkergaard; etc. With empiricism at its basis; modern science continuously approaches it. The more I read of it; the more it looks like the closest we could have gotten to science 3000yrs ago. With many intervening years of superstitious thought blocking its fundamentals from view.Thankfully we live in an era were psychology might start re-discovering much of this; modernizing the language; bringing instrumentation into it; formalizing it; and introducing into common practice. (Or simply re-discovering it altogether.)1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of MahamudraBy Rex MccoyHis Holiness the Dalai Lama; has once again written and coauthored a book that is very well written and easy to understand. Mahamudra can be confusing; but as one of the most important meditations used in the Tibetan tradition of Mahayana Buddhism it could not have been presented to the Buddhist community at a better time. I highly recommend this book; the Sutra's are translated and explained; and the meditations are broken down in explicit step by step detail. Gen Rinchem
