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Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.
Hyperion offers both CDs, and downloads in a number of formats. The site is also available in several languages.
Please use the dropdown buttons to set your preferred options, or use the checkbox to accept the defaults.
From the muggy depths of the Viennese hothouse such an open-air life must have seemed attractive, for a moment or two at least. Certainly we feel that Mayrhofer is dreaming of a world where everything is straightforward and manly (often a preoccupation, Hemingway-like, of an inner struggle against what is perceived as unmanly – the overwhelmingly masculine poem Der Schiffer is another example of this). The subtext goes something like this: rather than the perils facing me in my own life, give me perilous mountain precipices any day; give me the emotional security of a stable relationship of picture-book normality and sweetness; give me, in short, an uncomplicated life. The repeated entreaty 'Give me' actually occurs in a long Mayrhofer poem which Schubert was to set in 1818 – Einsamkeit; there the poet plaintively constructs an extended shopping-list of the type of solitary, contemplative existence that he would like to live, far from the intriguing – in both senses – life of the big city.
Whether or not the Schubertians, and the composer in particular, were made for the outdoor life is another matter. The poem is prophetic of the exile of the poet Johann Senn, intimate of the Schubert circle who was unfortunate enough to be singled out and punished for his political views. In 1820 Senn was ordered back to his native Tyrol where one of his few freedoms was to contemplate life from as many mountain ridges as he pleased. It was as if he were bound to a rock like the unfortunate Prometheus. This punishment which removed him from his circle of friends, and the artistic interchange which nourishes all writers, effectively extinguished his creative abilities. When Mayrhofer wrote this poem this cruel turn of events lay in the future; but in 1817 it is clear that the huntsman's life embodies his fantasies of physical and mental freedom – impossible dreams for the freethinker who worked as a censor for the police state. It is true that this yodelling hero may fall from a great height and break his neck (this, incidentally, was to be Mayrhofer's choice of suicide) but at least he was surrounded by the beauties of nature; daily traversing the minefields of political chicanery must have seemed no less dangerous, and considerably less healthy.
Schubert chooses a 6/8 rhythm suitable for pastoral songs. As if influenced by thoughts of mountain air, the marking is 'Frisch'; this is counterbalanced with the moderating 'doch nicht zu schnell' as if to remind us that this is no elfin song – a strapping body and muscular thighs are contained within these Lederhosen. The opening aria is simple in a manner that only Schubert can carry off. He can deliberately restrict harmonic variety without impoverishing his character; rather the reverse. The music is largely grounded in tonics and dominants, and it is no doubt this 'oom pah pah' aspect of the music to which Capell objected; but this in-built banality seems entirely suitable to paint a man whose eyes traverse vast vistas, but whose imagination is limited. As with Shakespeare's stout-hearted working characters, we salute his solidity of spirit rather than his brain-power. Luckily, Schubert is easily able to differentiate between simplicity and stupidity, between lack of sophistication and philistinism: the man has a good and faithful heart. The contour of the vocal line moving up and down the stave, and occasionally plunging the octave, suggests the physical movements of a sure-footed climber, and these intervals also tell us that he can yodel into the next valley when necessary. The accompaniment employs the thirds and sixths typical of horn music. An echo is also built into the music: after 'ins Land hinab zu blicken' the descending F major arpeggio on that last word is mirrored a beat later by the piano, and the rollicking sixths (which begin after 'das nebelleicht zerrinnt') bounce back and forth between the piano's middle and high registers as if horn fanfares were reflected back to us at different pitches. We find the same echo effect in different registers in another Mayrhofer song written in the same month – Schlaflied D529.
The middle section, marked 'Ein wenig langsamer', is in F minor. If the joy of the huntsman in his work is simple, so is his unhappiness; indeed it is almost childlike in its sense of desolation. At 'Er ist der fernen Lieben, die ihm daheim geblieben' everything in this music droops downwards with plaintive echoes between voice and piano that border on petulance. It is here, if anywhere, that we can detect an affectionate chuckle on the composer's part. Despite all his bravery and bluster, when it comes to love the huntsman is a big baby. The emotional vulnerability of someone brave and impervious to danger is in itself something of a cliché. Before 'Und ist er nun am Ziele' throbbing triplets are introduced into the piano; the left hand takes up the drooping motif which has already been heard in the treble register; this takes on the character of a mournful horn obbligato resonating through the mountainous terrain. It is as if the huntsman were trying to communicate with his faraway love in the time-honoured fashion of alphorn messaging.
It is then that we hear the authentic Schubertian touch: at 'so drängt sich in der Stille' voice and accompaniment rise to a D flat underpinned by a diminished seventh chord; at 'ein süsses Bild' this changes enharmonically to a C sharp as part of a A7 chord leading to a modulation into D major. This change seems to conjure a vision of sweetness and femininity before our eyes and ears, and the singer is transformed by the radiance. It is as if a beam of healing love has ennobled this rustic soul and rendered him able to communicate in a delicate and sensitive manner. He recalls choosing his girlfriend in the valley, and Schubert conjures memories of a gathering, a village dance perhaps, where they might have met. The waltz music for the three lines of poetry beginning 'Die Sonne goldne Strahlen' is simple enough – the harmonies are tonic, dominant and subdominant – but the higher tessitura requires something new of the singer. The song as a whole is conceived for a healthy baritone, but here a high F sharp (on 'im Tal erkor') has to be limned in with a head voice which requires delicacy and tact. This successfully achieved is like seeing a rugged mountaineer execute a faultless balletic pirouette.
Poets and artists can exist in a world of dreams and fantasy (indeed Mayrhofer finishes his poem with the vision of feminine love, without the reprise which the composer deemed necessary), but real men have to work, and Schubert knows this. Pull yourself together, lad, and get on with the job. The first verse of the poem is exactly recapitulated to make a satisfying whole in conventional ternary form. After having glimpsed another, more vulnerable side of the man's character we are happy to hear his working refrain once again. It is perhaps significant that the song is dedicated to Schubert's old friend Josef von Spaun whose longstanding role in Schubert's life was that of trusty and true supporter. One can somehow imagine that Spaun would have enjoyed this uncomplicated music, and that it was for this reason that the composer, when he came to publish the song in 1822, long after it was written, dedicated it to him.
The song exists in three versions of different keys. The first is in E major, and the second, even lower, in D major. The latter bass-clef version was made for Count Esterházy during Schubert's long stay in Zseliz during 1818. When he came to publish the song Schubert chose to make a third version in F major, the one performed here. This seems to have been influenced by market considerations to do with vocal range and amateur accessibility. The other keys are lugubrious and too low for the majority of male singers. And whereas it is unlikely that many basses will be able to float a delicate high E, one has at least half a hope of finding a baritone with a soft high F sharp. As in the case of this mountaineer, dreams are sometimes reality.
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Talk:Callisto Coordinated Update Sites
- 1 Talk Page started by Kim Moir (platform-releng) :-)
- 2 Page talks tips
- 3 URL's for Callisto updates
- 4 How all-or-nothing and few-or-many-choices should Callisto be
- 5 Tool to track downloads
- 6 Sizes involved with Callisto
- 7 Concurrent Builds & Releases
- 8 Cross project requirements - best practices
- 9 Default download should be binary not SDK
Talk Page started by Kim Moir (platform-releng) :-)
I've done a bit of editing to try and keep this page organized, and show what's been resolved and what still needs some active work. If anyone ever see's I've edited too much, please say so, as I'm sure it was unintentional. Eventually we may want to move "resolved and stale" issue to some separate history page and some of the "news" topics may deserve a page of their own, eventually. And ... by all means ... all committers to Callisto should feel free to contribute to these pages by organizing the content, or provide links out to other pages, etc. The end goal is to end up with a great "main" page that everyone finds accurate and a useful reference.
-- David williams 21:49, 11 February 2006 (EST)
Page talks tips
I believe the little "+" symbol next to the edit button at top should be used for these talks. --Denis Roy 16:50, 6 February 2006 (EST)
Which will add a new level 2 section at bottom of page.
Responses to page talk sections
I think it also seems to work fairly well to add a level 3 section to "respond to" a level 2 section. I do not know if there's an easy short cut for that, I've just been doing it "manually". (with 3 equal sign's (title) 3 equal signs)
-- David williams 21:49, 11 February 2006 (EST)
author date and time
And, if you don't know if yet, 4 tildes in a row automatically gets converted to your name, and the current date and time, for easy marking of who and when. I guess the bracket(initials-username)end-bracket just shows how out of date we are with this fancy new Wiki stuff :)
-- David williams 21:49, 11 February 2006 (EST)
using del to strike out old stuff
We can also use the del tag to strikeout some stuff that we want to keep, but is no longer relevant because it's been resolved
--Denis Roy 10:37, 25 February 2006 (EST)
URL's for Callisto updates
[kmoir] There is a problem with the url http://update.eclipse.org/updates/callisto/
Currently, the platform team stores all its updates in this directory
and subdirectories such as these
http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.0 http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.1
So I don't know that this is the best url for Callisto
given that
[dmw: agreed, we should have 'callisto' first in the URL, and keep it "parallel" other Eclipse projects]
[denis: I can't host this on update.eclipse.org/callisto. How about download.eclipse.org/callisto?]
[nickb] How about: http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.2/callisto.xml (in the same folder as site.xml) ? [dmw] I think we're leaning toward http://download.eclipse.org/callisto, but wanted to comment on the comment ... I think we should avoid having version numbers in (any) directory ... isn't the long term goal to have a constant update site for all time, and just keep putting new plugins and features in there, as needed, so to speak? ... and, hopefully, there may start to be more and more that don't actually change, say from 3.2 to 3.3?]
[kmoir]Until the code to resolve this bug is implemented, we can't ensure that we can just reuse the same update site from release to release. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=123162
Resolved: URL's for Callisto updates
These issues have been resolved as best they can, and the main page updated to reflect the update URL's for Callisto will be http://download.eclipse.org/callisto/
-- David williams 21:49, 11 February 2006 (EST)
And now already changed so the "top level" one will be http://download.eclipse.org/callisto/releases
to avoid having other directories permenanently underneath the main update site directory. They should be siblings for easier management and future flexibility.
-- David williams 00:43, 17 February 2006 (EST)
How all-or-nothing and few-or-many-choices should Callisto be
[kmoir] Providing Callisto as a single download comprising all 10 projects provides better exposure to the newer projects. By the same token, it also forces people to download stuff that they may not necessarily want or ever use, thus significantly increasing the strain on the distribution infrastructure. It is also rather overwhelming for a new eclipse user. My point is, perhaps there is a better way to educate users and provide choice while simultaneously exposing the full breadth of functionality available with Callisto.
[dmw: yep, this is the question to be answered empirically and via community feedback ... but if we get one packaging working ... a few others should be easy --- though, I'd never want to get to the point of a Callisto user having more than, say, 4 or 5 choices ... those users that want more fine grained control than that will have to use project update URLs]
[nickb] I agree that making people download EVERYTHING is both overkill and will overtax the infrastructure. However, as David points out, "enabling" projects like EMF and GEF are required for the more newb-friendly projects, so could we have a set of screenshots just showing people how to use UM and the various requirements they need to check off in order to get the projects they want? I like what WTP has done for their UM site, for example.
Resolved: we'll start with the "completely selectable" approach
Since its easier, and allows better incremental approach to the end goal (e.g. there could be one failing or delayed feature, without preventing other updates). As before, we'll assess as we go, and remain open to future enhancements.
-- David williams 00:48, 17 February 2006 (EST)
Tool to track downloads
By the way, I've got a working tool for tracking download stats for EMF & UML2 (and other projects who want to implement it), which combines
- a PHP script for running SQL queries at the eclipse.org download stats database,
- a shell script to automatically run the PHP to convert SQL into XML, run every night/week/month, and
- a web UI (http://www.eclipse.org/emf/downloads/downloads.php) to display those results for trending and analysis
For more on this, see http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Project_Download_Stats
--Nick Boldt 21:40, 3 March 2006 (EST)
Responses: Tool to track downloads
Nick, thanks. First, your tool does sound very interesting ... I personally won't have time to investigate it much for a while, but I'd think we'd want these sorts of stats for all Eclipse projects, especially those in Callisto!
Sizes involved with Callisto
Since several have voiced concerned over size of Callisto, I guess we should start to estimate its size.
Here's my off hand estimates of "runtime" sizes of several components (in MegaBytes). These are mostly guesses at this point (but a few I'm "updated" recently), but if enough people provide estimate, we'll get a little better idea of what tradeoffs are.
[Callisto meisters: feel free to update your portions of table to be accurate ... using current milestones, or previous release milestones as estimates. Any rough estimate will do.]
[nickb] You can get numbers for your most recent builds like this:
- ssh email@example.com
- cd /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/tools/emf/downloads/drops/2.2.0/I200602020000
- find . -name "*.zip" -exec du -sh {} \;
If we literally included each (sub) project as a choice, that would be 15 choices ... which I think is too many for what I've thought Callisto was for. Perhaps someone could propose some concrete "groupings" that would satisfy majority of users (though, I'm pessimistic if we could reach much agreement?)
If we go that route, though, I don't think we would need to do anything, except maybe to get the platform plugin to provide all 10 "discovery sites"?
Also, maybe our friendly webmaster could comment on if these "increases in size" are of the size to be of concern .... such as is 75 Megs, say, that much different than 150? Is 150 that much different that 300? (I know "twice as big" sounds like a lot ... but .. its not like 10 times as much). And with our improved "nearest mirror" support, maybe it wouldn't matter?).
[denis: also consider that the bigger it is, the longer it will take to reach all our mirrors. The good news is that Mike okay'd an extra 200Mb (!!) of bandwidth for (but not limited to) Callisto, in addition to and separate of the 100Mb for eclipse.org, so we'll be in good shape for actual distribution.]
Project | Runtime Size | SDK Size |
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) | 3 | ? |
Data Tools Platform (DTP) | 6 | ? |
Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF, SDO, XSD) | EMF/SDO: 3.4, XSD: 1 | EMF/SDO/XSD: 23 |
Eclipse Project (Platform only) | 15 | ? |
Eclipse Project (PDE, JDT) | 60 | ? |
Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) | 3 | ? |
Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) | 6 | ? |
Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) | 10 | ? |
Visual Editor (VE, JEM) | 5 | ? |
Web Tools Platform (WTP, WST, JST) | 25 | 45 |
Totals | 150 | 300 |
Concurrent Builds & Releases
Release Train Cascade / RSS Notification & Response
[nickb] There's been a fair amount of discussion about getting the Callisto projects to align in terms of their releases (before the subject of UM was broached). Should this be a page by itself, rather than a footnote here, by all means please do. The link above shows what's been done so far in terms of building a build cascade automation scheme, along with some comments from the community. Please post comments about this plan into that bug so that I can integrate your requests into it, in order to make this solution more portable across all Callisto projects.
Responses to: Concurrent Builds & Releases
Yes, I'd agree the information in the above referenced bug report would make a good a Wiki page that spelled out the "how to" information ... step by step directions, links to example scripts, etc. I myself am not too concerned about cascaded builds, per se (we do "continuous builds", which would sort of lead to a combinatorial explosion if we and everyone followed it literally. Also, I haven't checked recently, but that discussion did not seem to address "cascading updates" ... which would be nice for developers (and by this I mean notifications of some new "weekly" update being available. That way, developers could perhaps automatically update their targets, with minimal effort.
Just agreeing (I'm not volunteering :).
-- David Williams 19:57, 11 February 2006 (EST)
True, we haven't addressed cascading updates (in terms of RSS and cron scripts, anyway), but if all the projects publish builds & UM jars at the same time (like EMF, UML2 and EMFT does), then this UM cascade could happen automatically - or at least would be available for those who want to take advantage. I'm all for putting it out there, publishing where it is, making it easy to get it, and letting whoever wants it to get it, either via download page, RSS (link to download page or directly to build 's URL), or UM site.
-- Nick Boldt 11:56, 24 February 2006 (EST)
Cross project requirements - best practices
[kmoir] On the same note, I couldn't find a document that gathered best practices for projects participating in Callisto
For instance, from the platform
http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/documents/plugin-versioning.html Using qualifiers
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-core/documents/3.1/run_from_jars.html Using jarred plugins and features
signing jars ....etc.
Responses to: Cross project requirements - best practices
Thanks Kim, I've adding the plugins-as-jars link to the main page's Callisto_Coordinated_Update_Sites#Related_Links_for_Further_Enjoyable_Reading_and_Reference
Thanks for pointing it out. (In general, all Callisto Committers should free to add references or annotations to
The versioning document was already linked there.
I didn't actually see much info in the jars document about "how to" sign plugins-as-jars. Has that effort or information moved further along?
And, by all means, I'm sure the community would use any "best practices" Wiki pages. If real general, beyond Callisto, I suggest you add pointers to them on Development_Conventions_and_Guidelines. For example, there you will find a link to a kind-of-out-of-date User_Interface_Guidelines which we in Callisto should also pay attention to.
-- David Williams 20:13, 11 February 2006 (EST)
[kmoir] 11:01, 24 February 2006 (EST)
There is a process to sign jars but it is not complete yet...releng, equinox/runtime team and foundation are working on it.
Default download should be binary not SDK
The SDK is too big. This is bad because: a) most people don't need all of that stuff, b) it wastes bandwidth, and c) it makes us look bad compared to other products. Thus I recommend that the default set of features be the Platform runtime binary plus the JDT runtime binary. The key part here being "binary". So no source, no PDE, no doc on how to develop plug-ins, just user doc.
Furthermore I recommend that the default for all other features like WTP also be "binary". The source / developer stuff should be in its own feature, listed on the update site, easy to download, but just not the default. We need to make Eclipse/Callisto look "lean and mean" not "huge and ungainly". --Ebb 10:13, 24 February 2006 (EST)


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Series: Book One in The Fixer Series
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" As part of the Carib Energy acquisition, Greg Buffington, the company's president, will join Crowley as vice president of Carib Energy, reporting to Jackson. Buffington will continue to develop and expand the company's Caribbean and Central America opportunities for small-scale LNG applications. His experience is deeply rooted within the international propane gas industry where he spent 31 years in varying capacities. He was the founder of EFG Industries, an international supplier of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) equipment, engineering and plant construction.
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Tibetan and Chinese Buddhisms
Tibetan and Chinese Buddhisms
By Indrajala (Jeffrey Kotyk)
Reading through the section entitled "Refuting Misconceptions About Meditation" in Lamrim Chenmo by Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) he discusses the erroneous idea, which as he states was common in his time, that analytical meditation is contrary to stabilizing meditation. He also states that this line of thinking is also the system of thought of the Chinese monk Ha-shang (in Chinese Heshang 和尚), who personifies in Tibetan Buddhist history the perceived inferiority of Chinese Chan. See the following quotes:
- "There are persons who have not begun to recognize that the classic scriptures and their commentaries constitute personal instructions, and who, therefore, might have the following qualm.
- Qualm: When you meditate on the path, you should do only stabilizing meditation rather than repeatedly analyzing your object of meditation, for repeated analysis with discerning wisdom is only for times of study and reflection. Moreover, repeated analysis will prevent you from future attainment of buddhahood because conceptual thought apprehends signs of true existence.
- Reply: This is nonsensical chatter of someone who is utterly ignorant of the crucial points of practice, for Maitreya's Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras states:
- Proper attention is based upon prior study. Sublime wisdom, which takes reality as its object, arises from your cultivation of proper attention.
- Here Maitreya teaches that you should use the wisdom that comes from reflection to attend properly to the meaning of what you have studied. From this there will arise the wisdom that comes from meditation and perceives reality."[1]
He draws a parallel between this wrong conception of meditation with the infamous Chinese Ha-shang. As the story goes he lost the debate at Samye Monastery to Indian monks, whereupon it was decided that Tibet would only receive and adopt Indian forms of Buddhism. Whether this debate actually occurred or not is subject to debate, but as far as Tibetan cultural memory goes it happened.
- "Moreover, to claim that all conceptual thought involves the apprehension of signs of true existence, and thus prevents enlightenment, is the worst possible misconception as it disregards all discerning meditation. This is the system of the Chinese abbot Ha-shang. I explain its refutation in the section on serenity and insight. This misconception also interferes with the development of deep respect for classic texts, because these texts are mainly concerned only with the need to use discerning analysis, whereas Ha-shang's system sees all analysis as unnecessary during practice."[2]
Reading this it occurred me that another author of note Cheng'guan 澄觀 (738-839 CE) in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), who lived in the same general era as when the Samye debate occurred where the infamous Ha-shang was brutally refuted, addresses the same issue in a rather small work of his entitled Examining the Five Aggregates 《五蘊觀》 where he outlines the practice of analyzing the five psycho-physical aggregates and in the concluding remarks refutes the same objection that Tsong Khapa does.
- 《五蘊觀》卷1:「問。夫求解脫。祗是了妄證真。但能契真如理。寂然無念則便離縛。何假興心觀蘊方求解脫。豈不乖理哉。答。離蘊真妄約何而立。且五蘊者身心之異名。行人若不識身心。真妄何能懸契。不達真妄之本。諸行徒施。故經云。若於虗空終不能成。斯之謂也。且計人我者。凡夫之執也。計法我者。二乘之滯也。故令修二觀。方能了妄證真。豈可離也。」
- 'It is asked, "Seeking liberation is only just understanding delusion and realizing the truth. It is merely being able to realize the principle of tathātā – in quietude without thoughts and then binds are removed. How does one provisionally arouse the mind, examine the aggregates and then seek liberation? Is this not in opposition to the principle?"
- We answer: with what do you stand without aggregates, truth and delusion? Furthermore, the five aggregates are a different name for the body and mind. Supposing the practitioner is not aware of the truth and delusions of body and mind, how could they completely understand them? They do not reach the source of truth and delusion and practises are vainly undertaken. Thus the scripture states, "It is like in emptiness ultimately nothing being able to be established."[3] Furthermore, the conception of a self of a person is a delusional attachment for the ordinary person. The conception of the self of a phenomenon is an obstruction for the two vehicles. Thus we have them practice the two examinations and then they are able to understand delusion and realize the truth. How could you do without this?'[4]
This is noteworthy because the Samye debate is said to have occurred in the same time period as Cheng'guan was writing (8th century). We can indeed assume that some Buddhist thinkers in China at the time, perhaps those Cheng'guan had in mind, held the view of Ha-shang, but this was by no means a universal view held east of Tibet. I gather that in Tibetan Buddhism the views of Ha-shang are commonly thought of as "Chinese Buddhist views" and hence the whole of Chinese Buddhist thought can be easily dismissed and regarded as essentially defective. However, if we should just imagine that it was the scholar and yogi Cheng'guan who attended the debate at Samye, rather than this notorious Ha-shang character, then the perception of Chinese Buddhism in the general Tibetan Buddhist perspective might have evolved into a more positive image.
Fortunately, there has been some progressive development in recent times in clarifying long-held misconceptions between Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. There was a discussion held between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Chan Master Sheng Yen in May 1998. Their discussion is recorded and translated in the publication Meeting of Minds. In the following quoted section the Dalai Lama notes the probable existence of two Chinese monks active in Tibet in the early history, and points out the source of the long-standing issue that, in general, Tibetan Buddhism has seemed to have had with Chinese Buddhism. He also notes Tsongkhapa's vocal criticism of Chan as he understood it.
- His Holiness:
- Earlier today in our private meeting, I was very impressed and pleased to hear that Venerable Sheng Yen once spent six years in solitary retreat. Listening to your presentation of Chan Buddhist teachings, my immediate and very profound feeling was that I was listening to words of wisdom from someone who is very experienced and a great practitioner. For all of us, to have knowledge of Dharma is indeed very important, but perhaps what is more important is to put that knowledge of Dharma into practice.
- Listening to your explanation of Chan Buddhism, I jotted down a few questions that I would like to ask. First, in which century did Master Huineng live?
- His Holiness:
- The reason I ask is that there is some historical connection to Chan in the origin and development of Tibetan Buddhism. We know that Lama Tsongkhapa had been one of the most vocal critics of the sudden teachings of Chan in Tibet, and there was a great debate surrounding Chan and the teachings transmitted from Indian Buddhism.
- However, in the Samye Temple during the formative era of Tibetan Buddhism in the reign of King Tri-song-Deutsen, different wings were devoted to different practices. One section is devoted to the Vajrayana practitioners-the tantricas. Another section is dedicated to the lozawas and the panditas-the translators and the scholars. The third section is called the dhyana hall, the place of meditation. This is supposed to have been the residence of a Chinese master referred to as Hoshang. It was during the eighth century, when Samye was built, that the Indian masters Santarakshita and Kamalashila were active in Tibet and were part of the development of Tibetan Buddhism.
- My feeling is that if Santarakshita built a separate wing in the Samye temple for the residence of the Chinese Chan masters, he must have welcomed that tradition and recognized it as an important element of Buddhism in Tibet. However, it seems that during the time of his disciple, Kamalashila, certain followers of Chan in Tibet perhaps promoted a slightly different version of the original doctrine. They placed tremendous emphasis on rejecting all forms of thought, not just in the context of a specific practice, but almost as a philosophical position. This is what Kamalashila attacked. Therefore, it seems to me, there were two different versions of Chan that came to Tibet.
- Venerable Sheng Yen:
- I am very grateful to His Holiness for bringing up the subject of the Chinese master Hoshang. From the story, it seems that those Chinese monks during the time of Kamalashila were not qualified to represent Chan. In the Dun Huang Caves, a place where many Buddhist texts were excavated, Buddhist scholars have found ancient texts relating a similar story about the first Chinese monk who greatly influenced Tibetan Buddhism, in particular the practice of meditation. So maybe the first Chinese master who went to Tibet wasn't so bad after all!
- His Holiness:
- In the Tibetan story, the first Chinese master was welcome; the second master supposedly lost the debate!
- Venerable Sheng Yen:
- So maybe the problem will not be with me, but with my successor who will again lose!
- His Holiness:
- Yes! From the Tibetan viewpoint, we welcome the first Hoshang. To the followers of the second Hoshang, we will have to say "good-bye!" If the Chinese masters that we encounter now are followers of the first Chinese master in Tibet, we will gladly receive them. If they are followers of the second Chinese master, we will have to say "farewell."[5]
Unfortunately, despite His Holiness' positive remarks, I do not foresee much serious interaction between Chinese and Tibetan traditions. I understand that in Taiwan Tibetan Buddhism is somewhat popular and I once met a Kagyu-pa Lama in 2010 when I was visiting the National Palace Museum in Taipei, who told me he was teaching in Taiwan. In the same afternoon I also saw some people handing out anti-Tibetan Buddhist literature, bilingual with Chinese and English, complete with shock images of tantric coupling deities, denouncing this as absolute heresy. The Dalai Lama has also been warmly received in Taiwan before, despite the objections of at least one major Buddhist leader in Taiwan, namely Venerable Xingyun of Foguangshan, objecting to his visits.
Still, while individuals themselves might take an interest and even practice Tibetan Buddhism, and there might be scholars who study Tibetan, I don't think an orthodox Chinese lineage would readily absorb many practices from their Tibetan cousins. Although at one point most of the Sinosphere (China, Korea and Japan) had its own form of Vajrayāna developed during the Tang Dynasty, it was eradicated on the mainland and only survives today in Japan with Shingon and Tendai, with small pockets of it also in Taiwan and America. However, it is yoga-tantra, and not being anuttara-yoga-tantra it lacks consort visualizations and practices. The former would be acceptable, but not the latter. Consort practices and even the artwork would not go over well, even for non-monastics, as orthodox Chinese Buddhism tends to be puritanical at times, really stressing celibacy even for ordinary laypersons. This all said, I am speaking of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism as I understand it outside of the PRC – there might be some positive interaction between the two traditions in provinces like Gansu and Sichuan where you have both Han Chinese and Tibetans living in close proximity to each other.
In any case, I hope people can realize the value in taking an ecumenical approach to Buddhism. One need not limit oneself to just one cultural development of Buddhism as there is wisdom to be found all over the world.
- ↑ Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzan-grags-pa, The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. Volume One. Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2000), 109.
- ↑ Ibid., 112.
- ↑ Citation from the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-sūtra. 《說無垢稱經》卷1〈1 序品〉:「若於虛空終不能成」(CBETA, T14, no. 476, p. 559, a25)
- ↑ (CBETA, X58, no. 1004, p. 425, b23-c6 // Z 2:8, p. 303, a17-b6 // R103, p. 605, a17-b6)
- ↑ Meeting of Minds. Translated by Wang Ming Yee, Geshe Thubten Jinpa and Guo-gu. Edited by Lindley Hanlon and Ernest Heau. Dharma Drum Mountain, 35-38.


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Is there any WebApp that allows you to publish an e-mail on the web using a script tag that protects it from robots?
To be more clear: I want to publish a post on Blogspot that prints my e-mail on the screen as a selectable and copyable text, but hides it from the HTML source code. This is an anti-spam technique.
I imagine the solution is some javascript that fetches the e-mail address from a server, or that decrypts it from existing data. I know this could be a programming question if the solution doesn't need no server-side programming, but I'm not sure about this.


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Библиотека сайта rus-linux.net
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Selecting Specific Protocols
Not every implementation of uucico speaks and understand each protocol, so during the initial handshake phase, both processes have to agree on a common protocol. The master uucico offers the slave a list of supported protocols by sending Pprotlist, from which the slave may pick one.
Based on the type of port used (modem, TCP, or direct), uucico will compose a default list of protocols. For modem and direct connections, this list usually comprises i, a, g, G, and j. For TCP connections, the list is t, e, i, a, g, G, j, and f. You can override this default list with the protocols command, which may be specified in a system entry as well as a port entry. For instance, you might edit the port file entry for your modem port like this:
This will require any incoming or outgoing connection through this port to use i, g, or G. If the remote system does not support any of these, the conversation will fail.
Andrew Anderson
Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996


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For as long as there is music, angsty singer-songwriters will also exist. From Adele to Perfume Genius to Cat Power, this is one sub-genre that's never short of a new misery guts to bolster its endless tide of woe. Given the circumstances, it's remarkable that Torres (aka. Mackenzie Scott) has managed to build a hum of appreciation around her self-titled debut.
Aside from having to compete with her footballing namesake for Google's affection, this Nashville-based harbinger of sorrow took the brave decision to release her album independently on Bandcamp. To be clear, Torres is more than deserving of a proper label's support and some old-fashioned marketing heft. Despite its initial similarities to Sharon Van Etten's Tramp - a bit lo-fi, a bit bereft of hope - there's enough raw talent here to suggest something truly great could follow.
For starters, it's a record dripping in melody. This probably reads like faint praise but when most of your songs are stripped back to their instrumental essentials, you're going to have work hard to produce a dramatic flourish. 'Moon & Back' is typically Torres, churning forward with arresting intensity from its humble finger-picked beginnings to a string-drenched crescendo. "Please don't look at this like a hit and run," she pleads, while a staccato crunch of guitar fuzz needles away to underline the contrary.
Torres' voice is delicately matched to its central role in a withering spotlight. The tortuously extended 'Waterfall' and 'November Baby' require an arduous range of notes to be traversed without breaking the tension in an outburst of Whitney Houston-like histrionics. 'Mother Earth, Father God' pushes this agonising mantra further, right to a precipice of untold heartache, before relenting so you can peer over its edge in morbid fascination. 'Intense' just about covers the experience.
Given Torres was pieced together on a shoestring with each track reportedly recorded live in a single take, its limitations are best taken as a product of circumstance. 'When Winter's Over' sounds muddy and hinges on a metaphor that's been done a hundred times over and several times better. 'Come To Terms' is also too subdued for its own good. Really, most of the album's shortcomings tease at what its creator could achieve given the opportunity.
Despite her numerous contemporaries, Torres stands out as a distinct and compelling performer. This will be obvious to anyone who listens to her. Go on then, what's stopping you?
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