eBooks „patna“
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Nico Moonen
Vaisali - Patna - Nalanda - Rajgir
Boeddhistische plaatsen in India en Nepal. 5
- Religion
- Dutch
- 3343 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 470
In het Mahaparinibbāna sutta worden vier plaatsen als bezienswaardig en aangrijpend voor devote Boeddhisten aangewezen. Het zijn de plaatsen waar de Boeddha geboren is, waar hij de Verlichting bereikte, waar hij voor het eerst de verheven leer verkondigde en waar hij heenging in het opperste geluk van de bevrijding van lijden en onvoldaanheid. Die plaatsen zijn respectievelijk Lumbinī, Bodh-Gayā, Sarnath en Kushinagar. Behalve deze vier aangrijpende plaatsen heeft de Verhevene ook nog als bezienswaardig en aangrijpend genoemd de plekken waar een stoepa is opgericht voor de relieken van de Verhevene. Bezienswaardig zijn verder de plaatsen waar de Boeddha vaak heeft vertoefd. In 1984 bezocht de auteur de vier plaatsen die door de Ontwaakte zijn aanbevolen. In 1987, 1990, 1996, en 2004 werden weer pelgrimstochten gemaakt. Behalve de reeds bezochte steden en dorpen werden in de route toen ook opgenomen enkele plaatsen waar stoepas voor de relieken van de Boeddha zijn en plaatsen die gewijd zijn doordat de Verhevene er vaak vertoefde. Tevens was er op een van die reizen de gelegenheid om de beroemde grottempels van Ellora en Ajanta te bezoeken. In de reeks “Boeddhistische plaatsen in India en Nepal” worden die plaatsen besproken. Dit vijfde nummer ervan handelt over de plaatsen Vesali (Vaisali), Pataligama (Patna), Nalanda en Rajagaha (Rajgir). Deze plaatsen zijn een bezoek waard omdat de Boeddha er vaker vertoefde. En in Nalanda was de oudste Boeddhistische universiteit. [more]
Keywords: Boeddhisme, pelgrimstochten, Vaisali, Vesali, Patna, Pataligama, Rajgir, Rajagaha
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Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
- Fiction
- English
- 129220 Words
- Ages 8 and up
- 226
- 2
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad. Jim a young British seaman becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. The court strips him of his navigation command certificate for his dereliction of duty. Jim is angry with himself, both for his moment of weakness, and for missing an opportunity to be a 'hero'.
At the trial, he meets Charles Marlow, a sea captain, who in spite of his initial misgivings over what he sees as Jim's moral unsoundness, comes to befriend him, for he is "one of us". Marlow later finds Jim work as a ship chandler's clerk. Jim tries to remain incognito, but whenever the opprobrium of the Patna incident catches up with him, he abandons his place and moves further east.
Later, Marlow's friend Stein suggests placing Jim as his factor in Patusan, a remote inland settlement with a mixed Malay and Bugis population, where Jim's past can remain hidden. While living on the island he acquires the title 'Tuan' ('Lord'). Here, Jim wins the respect of the people and becomes their leader by relieving them from the predations of the bandit Sherif Ali and protecting them from the corrupt local Malay chief, Rajah Tunku Allang. Jim wins the love of Jewel, a woman of mixed race, and is "satisfied... nearly". The end comes a few years later, when the town is attacked by the marauder "Gentleman" Brown. Although Brown and his gang are driven off, Dain Waris, the son of the leader of the Bugis community, is slain. Jim returns to Doramin, the Bugis leader, and willingly takes a fatal bullet in the chest from him as retribution for the death of his son. [more]
Keywords: lord jim, joseph conrad, sea story, psychological thriller, modern literature, action and adventure, historical fiction
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Robin Kumar
The illustrations
- Romance
- English
- 27099 Words
- Ages 18 and up
Aarman had a childhood crush on Aakansha, a classmate from the school. He loved her madly but Aakansha didn't. He again fell in love with Sonia, who played with his emotions and dumped him. He now didn't believe in love anymore and an affair for him was for fun without any commitment. Had affair with Anupama who turned out to be a high society girl, but he was non-committal, he wasn't hurt. Few years later he had a fling on Silvia who visited for an internship in the company he worked. He established physical relationship with her but ditched her when she asked for commitment. He soon got married and had a great sex life that anybody would vouch for. Some ten years later being a complete family man, he came in contact with Aakansha, his childhood crush, on the social media. He decides to meet her in person and flies to Pune, where she now lived after her second marriage following death of her first husband due to carcinoma. On the day before he left Pune, Aarman and Aakansha got intimate and had sex for the first time. Now things changed, Aakansha was in love with him. They again met and stayed together for 3 days in a hotel in Patna, where they grew up.
Love was in the air. But question was, whether Aakansha really loved Aarman? Aarman knew she didn't. Aakansha only loved and missed her first husband. Probably she found her first husband in him. One day it revealed from archived marriage photo of Aakansha that Aarman was a look-alike of her first husband!!.
Aakansha woke up and found no traces of Aarman anywhere on earth, be it Facebook or WhatsApp. There was no profile of him anywhere. Where has he disappeared? Aakansha had a copy of the manuscript which Aarman wrote on his life and love with Aakansha. She was puzzled. She knew minutest details of him, but in reality he was no where. Aakansha tries to unravel the mystery herself and starts her search for Aarman, starting from places they had been to together. What she found in the end is the crux of the story. [more]
Keywords: Love, Romance, Lusts, Affairs
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