DISCUSSION Esophageal carcinoma is among the most challenging oncologic problems,
and its diagnosis is often delayed until late stages. Quint and colleagues1 reported an 18% …

Diagnosis: Septic arthritis due to Scedosporium apiospermum. A filamentous fungus was
isolated from the specimen of the swelling knee, which showed whitish, downy, cottony …

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have played a significant role in the development of
any economy. However, easy access to finance from financial institutions is a prime …

This volume examines the historical basis of the debate over sudden versus gradual
approaches to enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism seeing it as part of a recurrent polarity in …

… Not only was Hsieh Shang far from bored; I, too, from time to time was mentally stimulated.
But when I turned around and looked at the two Wangs (Wang Meng and Wang Shu), they …

… ritual performances, and from the "Ch*ing Shang Yueh," which was the national music including
… " (the abbreviation of 11 Ch'ing Shang Yueh") whose instruments and musical notations …

This essay examines the two key words, one Chinese and one Tibetan, that are used to
characterize enlightenment in Chinese Ch'an and in Tibetan Buddhism. It subjects to criticism …

… szu-chi Tun-huang Han-wen wen-shu, tr. Wang K'o-hsiao, ed. Wang … by a number of Chinese
writers, including Li Shang-yin (8127858).Golygina published a book in 1980on the ch'uan-…

… Scholars, such as Steven Phillips and Chi-tun Hsu,14 have indicated that many military
officials sent to the island were often responsible for theft, threatening behavior, and individual …

… Even [the proponents of] the "extreme sudden" (chi-tun) still say, "Fundamentally there is no
evil; that original state is good." Since they are not able to take the complete [manifested] evil …