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A Rosary of Rubies: The Chronicle of the Gur-rigs mDo-chen Tradition from South-Western Tibet
No full textThe mDo-chen bKa’-brgyud-pa school represents a little known Buddhist tradition from Mang-yul Gung-thang in south-western Tibet. It goes back to a Buddhist yogin known as Ma-bdun-pa or Ma-bdun ras-chen (12th/13th c.) and was later mainly spread by members of the Gur family. Although belonging to the “Upper ’Brug” (stod ’brug) branch of the ’Brug-pa bKa’-brgyud-pa school, the mDo-chen tradition has always been deeply infused with the “spoken teachings” (bka’ ma) and “treasure teachings” (gter ma) of the rNying-ma-pa school, and the cult of the “Seven Ma-mo Sisters” (ma mo mched bdun) was particularly practised and transmitted by its members. This book presents a critical edition, an annotated translation and a photographic reproduction of a manuscript copy of a rare chronicle of the Gur-rigs mDo-chen tradition written by Brag-dkar rta-so sPrul-sku Chos-kyi dbang-phyug (1775–1837). The text provides us with an overview of the tradition’s development mainly through biographical accounts but also through prophecies, prayers and praises for individual masters. The study concludes with two appendices based on the mDo chen bka’ brgyud gser ’phreng, a lineage history composed in the 15th century, and the “records of teachings received” (thob yig) of three important members of the Gur family, thus allowing us to gain an insight into the transmissions of the mDo-chen bKa’-brgyud-pa school and the interactions of its representatives with other important Buddhist teachers up to the 18th century. The present work is a further outcome of the author’s investigations into the cultural and religious traditions of south-western Tibet and the neighbouring Himalayan valleys
Ceremony - Seungchan Ahn, Peiling Chen, Mo Ding
No full textLL.M. graduatesSeungchan Ahn, Peiling Chen, and Mo Ding receive their hoods.https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/commencement_2013/1084/thumbnail.jp
Experiencing Chen Yi’s Music: Local and Cosmopolitan Reciprocities in Ning for Pipa, Violin and Cello (2002)
No full textChen Yi’s music, particularly her Ning for Pipa, Violin and Cello (2002), constructs reciprocities in compositional and aesthetic practice, and in the social-relational dynamics of musical contrast, performative and commemorative impulses. One aim of my paper is to suggest how Chen’s music offers multiple affiliations for music listeners, such that the local emerges in the cosmopolitan and vice versa. Events and textures emerge from, and become emblematic in emotional (affective) characters, in multiple orientations and receptions. Chen counterpoints and integrates the durational patterning suggestive of irregular Chinese “Ba Ban” tunes and more regular melodic models extending from popular song (e.g., the “Mo Li Hua” tune in Ning). Moving between, displacing and traversing—these emerging associations, narratives, encounters and migrations, entangle listening experiences of self and community, borderland and nation, and trauma and place
Oxyscelio nullicarina Mo & Chen 2020, sp. n.
No full textOxyscelio nullicarina Mo & Chen, sp. n. http://zoobank.org/ 51A8DF2B-B68D-4EFD-AEFB-60D9F2A2AA8C Figures 3, 8, 219–228 Description. Female. Body length 3.01–3.30 mm (n=6). Radicle color: same color as scape. Scape color: yellowish. A4: broader than long. A5: broader than long. Antennal club in female: formed, segments compact. Interantennal process: not elongate. Median longitudinal elevation in frontal depression: absent. Frontal depression: concave. Frontal depression sculpture: without transverse or oblique carinae below submedian carina. Submedian carina: strong, formed by a sharp raised carina. Submedian carina medially: without peak. Concavity across dorsal part of frontal depression: absent. Depression extending ventrally from median ocellus: absent. Upper frons: hood-like. Malar area near antennal foramen: without carina or expansion. Malar area at mouth corner: with radiating striae. Smooth strip along posterior side of malar sulcus: absent or not consistently broad. Middle genal carina: absent. Major sculpture of gena anteriorly: rugose; umbilicate-punctate. Major sculpture of gena posteriorly: absent; umbilicate-punctate. Microsculpture of gena anteroventrally: absent. Microsculpture of gena posteroventrally: absent. Median carina extending posteriorly from hyperoccipital carina: present. Hyperoccipital carina: complete, continuous with anterior genal carina. Lateral connection between hyperoccipital and occipital carinae: absent. Area between vertex and occipital carina: irregularly rugose. Occipital carina medially: uniformly rounded. Lateral corners of occipital carina: not protruding. Lateral pronotal area: without bulge projecting towards anterior pit. Epomial corner: weak. Netrion surface anteriorly: not inflected. Mesoscutum anteriorly: steep. Mesoscutal median carina: present and complete. Longitudinal carina between median carina and notauli: absent. Major sculpture of medial mesoscutum anteriorly: umbilicate-punctate; rugose. Major sculpture of medial mesoscutum posteriorly: umbilicate-punctate; transversely rugose. Microsculpture of medial mesoscutum anteriorly: granulate. Microsculpture of medial mesoscutum posteriorly: absent. Major sculpture of mesoscutellum: umbilicate-foveate; longitudinally rugose. Microsculpture of mesoscutellum medially: absent. Microsculpture of mesoscutellum laterally: absent. Mesoscutellar apex: convex or straight. Setae along anterior limit of femoral depression: arising from rows of foveae. Number of carinae crossing speculum above femoral depression: 3. Number of carinae crossing femoral depression: more than 5. Mesepimeral sulcus pits: more than 5. Metascutellum dorsally: concave. Metascutellar sculpture dorsally: with scattered rugae. Median carina of metascutellum: absent. Metascutellar setae: with many dorsal setae. Metascutellar apex: weakly emarginate. Metapleuron above ventral metapleural area: crossed by carinae. Metasomal depression setae: absent. Lateral propodeal carinae anteromedially: strongly diverging. Anterior areoles of metasomal depression: absent. Anterior longitudinal carinae in metasomal depression: absent. Lateral propodeal areas: separated medially. Postmarginal vein: present. Fore wing apex: reaching beyond T6. T1 midlobe: with 4 longitudinal carinae. T1: without anterior bulge. T2: with straight longitudinal striae or rugae. T6: broader than long. Apical flange of T6: exposed apically. Metasomal apex: rounded. Major sculpture of T6: umbilicate-punctate. Microsculpture of T6: absent. Male. Body length 3.20–3.43 mm (n=3). A5 tyloid: carina-like, not expanded. A11: longer than broad. Median tooth of frontal depression: absent. Median lobe of T1: with 4 longitudinal carinae. Metasomal apex: with tiny rounded tubercles. Diagnosis. Both sexes: Frons without elevation between antennal foramen and eye. Hyperoccipital carina present, continuous with anterior genal carina. Medial mesoscutum transversely rugose posteriorly. Metascutellum with dorsal setae. Female: A4, A5 broader than long. T1 with 4 longitudinal carinae. Male: A5 carina-like, not expanded. Frontal depression without tooth-like median protrusion dorsally. T1 midlobe with 4 longitudinal carinae. Apex of T7 with tiny rounded tubercles. Oxyscelio nullicarina is similar to O. convergens but can be distinguished by the setose metascutellum, and the broad A4 and A5 of female. Etymology. The name nullicarina refers to the absence of middle genal carina of this species. The epithet is used as a noun in apposition. Material Examined. Holotype, female: CHINA: Zhejiang, Mt. Gutianshan, 29°15’20”N 118°9’18”E, 18.VIII.2003, Zaifu Xu, SCAU 3015454 (deposited in SCAU). Paratypes: (6 females, 3 males) CHINA: 1 female, Zhejiang, Mt. Gutianshan, 29°15’20”N 118°9’18’’E, 18.VIII.2003, Zaifu Xu, SCAU 3018700 (SCAU); 2 females, Guangdong, Mt. Chebaling, 24°43’N 114°14’E, 21–23.VIII.2003, Jingxian Liu, SCAU 3015455, 3018699 (SCAU); 2 males, Hainan, Mt. Jianfengling, 18°41’N 108°49’E, 12–14.VII.2006, Jingxian Liu, SCAU 3015456, 3018708 (SCAU); 1 female, 1 male, Guangdong, Nanling National Nature Reserve, 9–18.VII.2004, Juanjuan Ma, SCAU 20095891, 200905875 (SCAU); 1 female, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, West Lake, 25.VIII.2003, Qiong Wu, SCAU 2011000651; 1 female, Zhejiang, Gutianshan, 3.VII.2005, Min Shi, SCAU 3040395 (SCAU). Comments. Johnson et al. (2013) reported additional distribution records of Oxyscelio ceylonensis (Dodd, 1920) from China. However, when we examined the two yellowish females and one blackish male identified as Oxyscelio ceylonensis (Dodd, 1920) (deposited in SCAU), it turns out that these three specimens do not match any described species. Based on additional material collected from Zhejiang, Guangdong and Hainan, we describe them as a new species here.Published as part of Mo, Wen-Hui, Chen, Hua-Yan, Johnson, Norman F., Pang, Hong, Ma, Li & Liu, Jing-Xian, 2020, Revision of the genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) from China, pp. 251-310 in Zootaxa 4816 (3) on pages 298-301, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/395428
Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus Mo
No full text<i>Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus</i> Mo, in Chu & Chen, 1989 <p> Cao et al. (1981: 125) were the first to use the name <i>Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus</i>. They wrote “ <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> feeds mainly on fishes” and mentioned in a footnote that “…this information was provided by Mr. Huang Shunyou”. In the following sentence they stated, that “ <i>Gymnodiptychus</i> species obviously differ from <i>Diptychus</i> species in having reduced scales, especially in <i>G. integrigymnatus</i>, where the scales on the humeral region and lateral line are reduced.” These words do not diagnose the new species from its congeners and thus cannot be treated as a statement of characters purported to differentiate the taxon. Because of the lack of a diagnosis for <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> in Cao et al. (1981), the conditions for availability in this work do not satisfy those specified in Articles 13.1.1 and 13.1.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999). The name <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> Cao, Chen, Wu and Zhu, 1981 should therefore be treated as a nomen nudum.</p> <p> While Mo (1989: 319–321, fig. 298 and 299) provided the first complete description of <i>G. integrigymnatus</i>, the authorship of the name was given as Huang in Cao et al. (1981). Mo (1989) listed 12 specimens (deposited in Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ)), collected from the vicinity of Ruidian Town and Mingguang Town, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, as material examined.</p> <p> In their account of <i>G. integrigymnatus</i>, Wu & Wu (1992: 434–435, fig. 118) cite as sources “…the draft of the Schizothoracinae fishes of Yunnan” (type localities: Ruidian Town and Mingguang Town, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province) by Huang in 1980 and Mo (1989), attributing authorship of the name to Huang in the unpublished draft.</p> <p> Huang in Chen & Huang (1998: 231–233, fig. 162) described <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> as a new species, stating in a footnote that “…this is the first formal description of the species since it was cited by Cao et al. (1981) ”. The second reference Chen & Huang (1998) cited was Mo (1989). Chen & Cao (2000: 348–349, fig. 215) subsequently gave the authorship of <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> as Huang (1998).</p> <p> Mo (1989) attributed the authorship of <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> to Huang in Cao et al. (1981). According to Article 13.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999), the name <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> Mo, in Chu & Chen, 1989, is available and should be regarded as the first formal description of this taxon. Following Article 21.1 and Article 50.1 of the Code, the publication date of 1989 and the authorship of Mo should be adopted for <i>G. integrigymnatus</i>.</p> <p> According to Article 72.1 of the Code (ICZN, 1999), the 12 specimens examined by Mo (1989) and deposited in KIZ should be treated as syntypes. Some of these specimens are also listed as types by Huang in Chen & Huang (1998) in his description of <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> (the material from Mingguang Town, Tengchong County, Yunnan listed in Mo, 1989, is not mentioned by Huang in Chen & Huang, 1998). The indication in Chen & Huang (1998) that <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> was being described for the first time is therefore incorrect.</p> <p> We examined the specimens of <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> deposited in KIZ. There are a total of 39 specimens collected before 1980, of which 27 are from Ruidian Town, Tengchong, Yunnan (23 specimens collected in February 1978 and 4 specimens collected in April 1976) and 12 are from Minguang Town, Tengchong, Yunnan (in April 1976). The standard lengths (SL) range from 27.8 to 107.3 mm. Of these 39 specimens, 13 are measured 73.0–110.0 mm SL and 89.0–133.0 mm TL respectively, which corresponds to Mo (1989). The number of specimens listed by Mo (1989) should be 13, not 12 (a counting error made by Mo, 1989). According to Articles 72.1 and 73.2 of the Code (ICZN, 1999), the 13 specimens examined by Mo (1989) are syntypes. The type series of <i>G. integrigymnatus</i> are as follows: KIZ 764003–006, 4 specimens, 85.6–106.4 mm SL, April 1976, Ruidian Town, Tengchong County, Yunnan; KIZ 764178 1 specimen, 97.7 mm SL, April 1976, Mingguang Town, Tengchong County, Yunnan; KIZ 78020315–321, KIZ 78020323, 8 specimens, 74.8–107.3 mm SL, February 1978, Ruidian Town, Yunnan Province, China.</p>Published as part of <i>Yang, Jian, Chen, Xiaoyong & Yang, Junxing, 2008, Clarification of the nomenclatural status of Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae), pp. 67-68 in Zootaxa 1897</i> on pages 67-68, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/184474">10.5281/zenodo.184474</a>
Chen Chen, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textChen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was long-listed for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Bloodaxe Books published a UK edition in June. He is also the author of four chapbooks, most recently You MUST Use the Word Smoothie (Sundress Publications, 2019) and Gesundheit! (in collaboration with Sam Herschel Wein and forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press, fall 2019). His work appears in many publications, including Poem-a-Day, The Massachusetts Review, The Best American Poetry, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence and co-runs the journal, Underblong. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Gile
Review of Karl-Heinz Everding, Tibetische Handschriften und Blockdrucke. Die mTshur-phu-Ausgabe der Sammlung Rin-chen gter-mdzod chen-mo, nach dem Exemplar der Orientabteilung Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Teil 14, Bände 52-63
No full textThis is the review of Karl-Heinz Everding's "Tibetische Handschriften und Blockdrucke. Die mTshurphu Ausgabe der Sammlung Rin-chen gter-mdzod chen-mo, nach dem Exemplar der Orientabteilung Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Teil 14. This book is the fifth part of the Rin chen gter mdzod chen mo (“The Great Treasury [of] Precious [gter mas]”) catalogue of the mTshur phu edition
Ore geology, fluid inclusions and four-stage hydrothermal mineralization of the Shangfanggou giant Mo-Fe deposit in Eastern Qinling, central China
No full textThe Eastern Qinling, Central China, containing more than 20 Mesozoic porphyry +/- skarn systems, is the most important Mo province in the world. The Shangfanggou giant Mo deposit, Luanchuan County, Henan Province, is a porphyry-skam system hosted in a lithologic association comprising carbonaceous sandstone, shale, carbonate and chert within the Neoproterozoic Luanchuan Group. Mo ores are mainly altered porphyry, skam and hornfels, with minor altered gabbro. The mineralization process includes four stages, potassic alteration of the porphyry and skamization of dolomite marble in stage 1, stockworlcs of quartz + molybdenite +/- sulfide (stage 2), pyrite + quartz +/- sulfides (stage 3), and carbonate +/- quartz +/- fluorite (stage 4), respectively. Mo mineralization was generally associated with strong silicification and/or phyllic alteration. The fluid inclusions in minerals include three compositional types, i.e., CO2-bearing (C-type), aqueous (W-type) and daughter mineral-bearing (S-type). Minerals formed in stages I to 3 contain all the three types of Fls, but the stage 4 minerals only contain the W-type Fls. Oxides and Cu-phosphate are recognized as daughter minerals in S-type inclusions in minerals of stage 1, whereas the daughter sulfide and reducing gases such as CO, CH4, H2S and C2H6 can be observed in quartz of stages 2 and 3, suggesting that the ore-forming fluids were initially oxidizing and then evolved to reducing. Boiling fluid inclusion assemblages can be observed in minerals formed in stage 2 or earlier, but not in stage 3 or later. Fluid boiling caused CO2 escape, oxygen fugacity decrease and rapid precipitation of ore minerals, and was a key factor causing Mo-mineralization at Shangfanggou. Data and interpretations presented in this contribution show that the fluids forming the Shangfanggou Mo deposit evolved from CO2-rich, high-salinity hypothermal, to CO2-poor, low-salinity epithermal (low-T). The Mo mineralization at the Shangfanggou deposit mainly occurred at depth of 6.6-7.0 km, deeper than the majority of porphyry systems in volcanic arcs, which resulted from a CO2-rich magma-fluid system originating from partial melting of thickened lower crust The Shangfanggou mineral system developed during 158-134 Ma when the Yangtze-North China continental collision began to evolve from compression to extension. Magmatic hydrothermal deposits developed in a continental collision regime are generally formed by CO2-rich, high-salinity fluids. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.GeologyMineralogyMining & Mineral ProcessingSCI(E)EI11REVIEWC146-1615
DNA barcoding for molecular identification of the genus Oxyscelio (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) from southern China, with descriptions of five new species
No full textSpecies of the genus Oxyscelio Kieffer are egg parasitoids of Orthoptera. The genus is relatively diverse in China, with 34 described species. Some species of the genus are extremely morphologically similar and difficult to identify, especially in males. In this study, DNA barcoding based on sequences of the COI gene was used to discriminate Oxyscelio species from southern China. In total, 49 COI sequences belonging to 22 morphospecies were obtained. The COI sequences worked well for the identification of all the studied species, with intraspecific genetic distances ranging between 0 and 4.3%, while interspecific distances ranged between 7.1% and 19%. Based on both morphological and molecular analyses, five species are described as new: O. amalocarina Mo & Chen, sp. nov., O. apheles Mo & Chen, sp. nov., O. latheticus Mo & Chen, sp. nov., O. stenos Mo & Chen, sp. nov., and O. striae Mo & Chen, sp. nov
Supporting data used in the paper: Xi Chen, 2020, The LMARS based shallow-water dynamical core on generic gnomonic cubed-sphere geometry
No full text# Simulation results of the unstaggered shallow water model
This repository contains the supporting data used in the paper: Xi Chen, 2020, The LMARS based shallow‐water dynamical core on generic gnomonic cubed‐sphere geometry, DOI: 10.1029/2020MS002280
Organization of the repository:
The tar archive with this data submission has a:
doc directory contains a README.md with information regarding naming conventions to label the model configurations for a shallow water test simulation. Additional information can also be found in README.md. Table 4 in the paper provides additional details.
The data directory contains the supporting data files (NetCDF format).Disclaimer: "This was prepared by Xi Chen under award NA18OAR4320123 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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