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Buddhism and Tourism at Pu-Tuo-Shan, China
No full textThis thesis is a study of pilgrimage and religious tourism in a Chinese Buddhist context, with a focus on both the host monastic community and visitors. The selected research site is Pu-Tuo-Shan, one of the Four Buddhist Sacred Mountains of China. While the Western literature on pilgrimage and religious tourism in the context of Buddhism in China remains thin and the many studies in Chinese have their research focus primarily on how to make use of religions to develop tourism and stimulate economic growth, this thesis aims to present the perceptions of Buddhist monks and nuns towards receiving visitors and tourism. The perceptions of religious hosts towards tourism development, and how they cope with the subsequent challenges created by tourism in China, are subjects that have not been studied. Additionally the thesis analyses data derived from a survey of 777 visitors to the island; the quantitative analysis sheds light on the profile of visitors. As elsewhere in the world, the religious sites of China attract not only believers, but also leisure and cultural tourists. The popularity of Pu-Tuo as a tourist destination inevitably disturbs the serenity of the monastic life of the approximately thousand monks and nuns who live there in their monasteries and nunneries. The first objective of this research is to generate a typology of visitors, and this was done through a quantitative approach grounded in post-positivism. The visitor survey was used to construct a visitor typology. The second objective of this thesis, to address how Buddhist monks and nuns perceive receiving visitors and tourism, and their ways to manage visitors’ behaviours, is achieved by adopting a qualitative approach grounded in an interpretive-constructivist paradigm. In-depth interviews with 25 monks and nuns were conducted to capture rich contextual data of their understandings. The two objectives of the thesis are related in the sense that the impact of the visitors on the monastic community and how the monks and nuns perceive their presence in Pu-Tuo depend on the visitors’ reasons for their visits, their behaviour and the strength of their belief in Buddhism. The findings provide insight into how the concepts of ‘pilgrimage’ and ‘pilgrim’ are understood from a Buddhist perspective. The attitudes of the Pu-Tuo Buddhist monks and nuns towards receiving visitors and tourism are found to be mostly welcoming and supportive. This contrasts with the literature on sites belonging to religions other than Buddhism which indicates that tourism is perceived by religious hosts as a burden and as a threat to the sanctity of their religious/sacred sites. Yet, there are challenges created by the visitors in Pu-Tuo and these are noted by the monks and nuns. Their ‘Buddhist way’ of undertaking visitor management is found to be different from what is described in the existing literature about non-Buddhist sites. It is suggested that the empathetic nature of Buddhism is at the root of the visitor management strategies adopted at Pu-Tuo. The findings thereby contribute to the existing scholarly knowledge of how Buddhist sites are managed in the Buddhist way
Kenen tuo kylä näkyy (3/4 C)
No full textLaulun sanat: Kenen tuo kylä näkyy, Kenen tuo kylä näkyy, Kenen linna liglattaa, Kenen linna liglattaa
Tuo neito ihana (2/4 C)
No full textLaulun sanat: Tuo neito ihana, tuo neito ihana, kasvot sen on kaunihit ja aivan herttaiset, huraa, huraa, huraa
Tuo neito ihana (2/4 C)
No full textLaulun sanat: Tuo neito ihana, tuo neito ihana on kokonansa kaunis kuin ruusu kämmeness'. Sen tumman pruuni tukka ja kaunis katsanto, sen julkaiseva otsa ja sievä vartalo! Huraa, on nuoriso tuon neidon puoliso, huraa, huraa, huraa
Tuo neito ihana (2/4 C)
No full textLaulun sanat: Tuo neito ihana, tuo neito ihana on kokonansa kaunis kuin ruusu kämmenell'! Kasvonsa on kaunihit ja ruusunpunaiset. Silmänsä on suuret ja aivan herttaiset. Huraa, nuoriso, tuon neidon puoliso, huraa, huraa, huraa
Silkkitäkillä peitettiin Tuo sorja sotapoika (4/4 C)
No full textLaulun sanat: Silkkitäkillä peitettiin Tuo sorja sotapoika, Hei hopsansa hei farelarela, Tuo sorja sotapoika
Liian kova nuorille pojille oli tuo sotaherra (2/4 C)
No full textLaulun sanat: Liian kova nuorille pojille oli tuo sotaherra, ja herra, liian kova nuorille pojille oli tuo sotaherra
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Regolamento di procedura della Corte di giustizia - Titolo III - Capo IV - Gratuito patrocinio
No full textFlash Gas Bypass Method for Improving Performance of an A/C System With a Microchannel Evaporator
No full textThis paper demonstrates that Flash Gas Bypass (FGB) method significantly improved the performances of the microchannel evaporator and the system, compared to the conventional direct expansion (DX) system. When system in both modes operated at the same compressor speed, the system in FGB mode produces about 13% to 18% more cooling capacity at 4% to 7% higher COP than in DX mode. When compressor speed was adjusted to maintain the same cooling capacity, COP improves 37% to 55%. Based on experimental results, a detailed microchannel heat exchanger model considering the refrigerant distribution helps to identify the two mechanisms augmenting the performances: 1) improved refrigerant quality distribution and 2) the reduction of refrigerant pressure drop across the evaporator
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