CONJUGATION
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CONJUGATION. A
PARADIGM, class, or table of
VERB forms in such inflected languages as
LATIN and
FRENCH, where elements are distinguished from each other by patterns of
INFLECTION, relating to tense, person, number. French has four regular conjugations, exemplified by
parler to speak,
finir to finish,
recevoir to receive,
vendre to sell. These verb classes conjugate differently, so that for example the perfect tense (for the first person singular) is respectively
j'ai parlé,
j'ai fini,
j'ai reçu,
j'ai vendu. The term is relevant to the grammar of Old English, in which there were seven conjugations of strong verbs, but not to Modern English, although irregular verbs can be divided into a number of pattern groups.
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The original Indian Mahayana meanings of sunyata, so called 'emptiness'.(Essay)
Newspaper article from: Middle Way; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...been as misused and misrepresented as sunyata, usually rendered into English as 'emptiness...expressed the view in written work that sunyata means 'nothingness'. Other bizarre...should know better. One opinion was that sunyata resembles a 'black hole', as in astronomy...
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Transformations of "emptiness" on the idea of sunyata and the thought of Abe and the Kyoto school of philosophy.(Abe Masao)
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...their origin from the Buddhist notion of sunyata. This essay is an attempt to understand...nothingness, absolute nothingness, and sunyata as used by key Kyoto-school philosophers...by tracing the history of the idea of sunyata from its earliest uses in Buddhism through...
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Walking the Bodhisattva Path: Sunyata and the Paramitas.
Newspaper article from: Middle Way; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...states that 'among the dharmas there is no self.' Sunyata (Emptiness) and our Deluded Thinking However...transcending the opposites. This is the concept of sunyata or emptiness. Sunyata is a much misunderstood term. It is often translated...
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Emptiness, kenosis, history, and dialogue: the Christian response to Masao Abe's notion of "dynamic sunyata" in the early years of the Abe-Cobb Buddhist-Christian dialogue.(Essays)
Magazine article from: Buddhist-Christian Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Buddhist idea of "emptiness" (Skt: sunyata). While the Christians participating...especially his key notion of "dynamic sunyata," went considerably beyond Nagarjuna...thought, and Abe's idea of "dynamic sunyata" as a natural outgrowth of the history...
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ALUMNA SUNYATA SMITH EARNS PH.D. , SET TO RETURN TO CAMPUS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/23/2009; 569 words
; ...SUNY College at Old Westbury will play host to a special guest on Thursday, February 5, as the College welcomes back alumna Sunyata Smith, who recently earned her a Ph.D. from The Albert Einstein School of Medicine. During her return to campus, Smith...
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'Sunyata,' textualism, and incommensurability.
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; I. For many commentators on the subject, contemporary Western philosophy has shown distinctive signs of consensus regarding a basic understanding of the fundamental constraints covering the employment of human rationality. Essentially, the view is that human reason operates always in a specific
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Emptiness Appraised: a Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Nagarjuna's philosophy of emptiness (sunyata) to the test of critical reason. The...appraisal" of Nagarjuna's philosophy of sunyata. By giving a thorough exposition of Nagarjuna's understanding of sunyata Burton ambitiously hopes to resolve...
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NAGARJUNA'S FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE OF PRATITYASAMUTPADA.
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...which Nagarjuna speaks is the doctrine of sunyata, but that gives a paradoxical character...view of things (as some would interpret sunyata) make possible and even constitute the...disingenuous claim that to accept the truth of sunyata is to relinquish all other wrong views...
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History, transhistory, and narrative history: a postmodern view of Nishitani's philosophy of Zen. (Keiji Nishitani)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...seen from the standpoint of Buddhist emptiness (sunyata), or what Kyoto School thinkers refer to as absolute...treatment of history in the final two essays [on "Sunyata and Time" and "Sunyata and History"] has been received as the strongest...
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Jesus through Buddhist Eyes: 3rd Conference of European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies, Archabbey St. Ottilien, Germany, February 26-March 1, 1999.
Magazine article from: Buddhist-Christian Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Christian absolutism can be overcome by Nishitani's understanding of sunyata: "The last ground of 'I am,' is without ground and groundless." Sunyata is itself subject to sunyata: nihilism can only be surmounted through nihilism itself. This...
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sunyata
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sunyata [Skt.,=emptiness], one of the main tenets of Mahayana Buddhism , first presented by the Perfection of Wisdom ( Prajna...
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Om
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...is often understood as symbolizing the true "empty" character of reality, as that truth has been communicated by various historical Buddhas, celestial Buddhas, and, directly, by the true character of reality itself (see sunyata ).
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Madhyamika
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Madhyamika [Skt.,=of the middle], philosophical school of Mahayana Buddhism , based on the teaching of "emptiness" (see sunyata ) and named for its adherence to the "middle path" between the views of existence or eternalism and nonexistence or nihilism...
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bodhisattva
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...buddhas of other worlds. The most important celestial bodhisattvas are Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of compassion; Manjusri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, and Maitreya, who in heaven awaits birth as the next buddha. See also sunyata .
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Life, Religious and Philosophical Aspects
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...beings (Genesis 2:7). Eastern religious forms can be significantly different: Maya spun over Brahman, or samsara over sunyata ; but they too detect the sacred in, with, and under the profuse phenomena of life. If anything is sacred, life is sacred...
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