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Kunci pencerahan seketika : Supreme master Ching Hai
No full textJudul Asli : The Key of immediate enlightenment. Jilid 5xvi, 275 p. : il.; 19 cm
Supreme Master Ching Hai World Society
No full textAs Ching Hai initiates do not prefer to speak of their community as religious, it may be more precise to describe Suma Ching Hai as a transnational cybersect primarily composed of diasporic East and Southeast Asians. Suma Ching Hai is inseparable from a vast mediascape of online lectures, videos, chat groups, commercial enterprises and tightly-controlled official messaging. Sum Ching Hai is also a New Religious Movement that blends together aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and messianic theology. The charisma of the Supreme Leader Ching Hai, called Thanh Hải in Vietnamese, binds the community together. She is often revered by initiates as partly divine, as a perfected being who preaches the proper meditation style (Quan Yin Method) and spreads compassion and the uplift of spiritual consciousness. Born in Vietnam, raised in the West and now based in Taiwan, Ching Hai teaches a syncretistic theology. Based on her time in India, she incorporates Sant Mat traditions, Surat Shabd Yoga (emphasizing divine sound and light), and Radhasoami as practiced in Beas. There are many similar theological touch points: 2 1/2 hours of required daily meditation; spiritual progression through stages of consciousness; abilities to experience astral planes; and total devotion on the spiritual master as an aspect of divinity. Practitioners of Ching Hai are given initiation after watching and summarizing (in written essays) 90 lectures of Ching Hai (available online) and practicing vegetarianism for at least 3 months. They are initiated by either Ching Hai herself or, more likely, by about twenty disciples who are authorized to perform initiations. Children of initiates are given "half initiation" at 6 and "full initiation" at 12 based on their spiritual advancement. Practice of Ching Hai depends on region: in Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam especially) and China, governments have branded Ching Hai as an "evil cult" and news stories abound about confiscations of illegal religious material or cult-like forms of psychological manipulation of initiates. In Vietnam, for example, Thanh Hải followers in Hanoi do so surreptitiously, with fear of government reprisal. Their meditation center is secret. Conversely, Thanh Hải followers in Ho Chi Minh City are building an official meditation center and do not live under the same shroud of fearful secrecy. Besides official adherents, there are many people who practice Quan Yin Method privately and consume online material related to Ching Hai without identifying explicitly with a community or even community of faith. The global community of Ching Hai followers could be briefly summarized as bounded together by a range of theological beliefs, meditation practices and forms of digital consumption. Significant communities exist in Taiwan (called Qinghai Wushang Shijie Hui), where the main headquarters were established in 1986. Of Vietnamese origin, several thousand are practitioners and refer to Ching Hai affectionately as Chi Hai ("eldest sister" in Vietnamese). Other concentrated populations of practitioners are in mainland China (although banned officially), South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan and California. Based on five normative precepts -- which includes not taking life and eating a vegan diet -- non-initiates of a vegan persuasion may discover this NRM by visiting one of 160 or so Loving Hut restaurants -- from Prague to Hanoi to San Jose -- where they will be exposed to Ching Hai's spiritually-infused artwork on the walls and her teachings beaming through 24 hour satellite TV. A cursory glance through online and printed media highlights the importance of veganism and these restaurants in shaping the public perception of Ching Hai (which is sometimes branded a "Vegan Cult" in Vice, for example).Non UBCUnreviewedPostdoctora
First Entrance Gate to the Temple of Confucius, Ching-Hai
No full textMedium: Steel plate engraving and etching"First Entrance Gate to the Temple of Confucius, Ching-Hai" [1993.2341.000.000], Tingle, James, Allom, ThomasArtist and Role: Allom, Thomas, EngraverExtent: comp. 12.5 x 18.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
[[alternative]]The Content Analysis of The Professional Baseball Coverage in
No full text[[abstract]]國立台灣師範大學體育研究所碩士論文 台灣報紙
職業棒球新聞報導內容之分析研究 研究生：廖清海 指
導教授：胡幼偉 博士
85.6 摘 要 本研究之主要目的，在探討
台灣報紙職業棒球新聞報導型態。分 析對象為中國時報、聯合報、民生
報、大成報、中時晚報及自立晚報 等六家報紙，研究時間自八十四年一
月一日至八十四年十二月三十一 日止，採系統抽樣法，共抽取二百一十
六份樣本報紙。本研究採內容 分析法，並針對分析結果與職棒聯盟人員
與職棒記者進行深度訪談， 最後提出以下結論： 一、台灣地區報紙對職
棒新聞報導相當重視。由於地域上的關係，對 台灣職棒更是重視，
之所以會如此，商業考量是最主要的因素之 一。 二、台灣地區報
紙對職棒新聞之報導方式呈現多元化。一般新聞、照 片及圖表等報
導方式是報導重點，而各報有其各自強調的報導方 式。 三、台灣地
區報紙對職棒新聞報導之主題相當廣，幾乎包含所有運動 社會學上
討論議題，職棒可以說是運動社會的縮影。綜合日報、 專業報及晚
報在報導主題上有所區別，日報及專業報的報導主題 較為平均，晚
報則著重在比賽中球員及球隊表現的報導，及做預 測性的分析報導
。而報導主題隨著球季的轉變亦有所不同，其取 向跟著球團的動向
走，動態文字報導內容比靜態文字報導內容多 ，不過相差已不遠。
四、台灣地區報紙對職棒新聞報導之向度偏向中立及正面，某些報紙
會以比較批評的角度來看職棒運動。 五、台灣地區報紙對職棒新聞報導
之對象以球員及教練為主，並強調 個人英雄主義及勝利主義，無論
是各球隊或國籍在報導量上頗為 平衡。 六、專業化的職棒新聞報導
是目前的趨勢。 關鍵詞：職業棒球、新聞、報導、大眾傳播媒體
The Content Analysis of The
Professional Baseball Coverage in Taiwan's
NewspapersMaster's Thesis Liao, Ching-Hai
Abstract 1996.6 The
purpose of this research was to analyze the contents of
the professional baseball in Taiwan's newspapers for one
year (from January to December in 1995). The samples
were chosen from the coverage on China Times News,
United Daily News, Min Sheng Daily, China Times Express,
the Great News, and the Independence EveningPost. The
methods taken in the study were Content Analysis and
Depth Interview. The Conclusion are as follows.1. The
various newspapers in Taiwan area lay great emphasis on
the coverage of the professional baseball. The
commerical consideration is one of the main factors
contributing to such great emphasis on professional
baseball.2. There are a good variety of covering styles
in the professional baseball news, and each
newspapers has its own particular covering style.3.
The professional baseball coverage in Taiwan's newspapers
has a broad range of themes, including almost all
the possible issues in the sports sociology. The
professional baseball can be assumed to be the
miniature of the sports society.4. Most of the newspapers
in Taiwan look at the professional baseball with a
neutral or positive perspective. Some of the newspapers
may look at the professional baseball with a
critical perspective.5. The professional baseball coverage
in Taiwan's newspapers mainly focuses on the players
rather than the couches, owners or administrators.
There is no significant difference in the covering
amount of teams or races among the various newspapers.6.
Professional coverage in Taiwan's professional baseball
news is the current trend.Key Words：Professional
Baseball、News、Coverage、Mass Media
The Content Analysis of The
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