Amaç: Antik Hint tıbbının en önemli kitaplarından birisi olan Sushruta Samhita, döneminin ünlü cerrah hekimi tarafından yazılmıştır. MÖ 5. yüzyıldan önce yazıldığı kabul edilen Samhita'da yer alan "erken gebelik" dönemine ait bilgilerin antik Yunan-Roma eserleri ile karşılaştırılması amaçlanmıştır. Yöntem: Purva-tantra ve Uttara-tantra olmak üzere iki bölüm olup ise Sutrasthana, Nidana, Sariras...

Introduction At the outset, it is essential to clarify what these few pages are and what they are not. As the title indicates, this is only a starting point. There is a great deal more that needs to be addressed with regard to theology than what can be stated here. Having said that, however, it is my intention to set forth a few very basic definitions for students who may feel a bit overwhelmed...

Like other scholars who hold that film is an important conversation partner with the perspectives of faith, Robert K. Johnston proposes to put film and Christian Scripture—and, specifically, Ecclesiastes—in a creative two-way dialogue. What makes Useless Beauty notable and well worth reading, however, is Johnston’s effort to resist the usual methods of Christian movie critique. Frequently, he c...

I. THE TRADITION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION The history of parabolic interpretation can be divided into four relatively distinct periods. During the Period of the Early Church (to 540) a tendency toward allegorical interpretation was firmly established. Despite certain protests the three-fold method of allegorical interpretation championed by Origen dominated the exegesis not only of the par...

A close reading of the cosmogony found in preface to Ō no Yasumaro 太安萬侶’s Kojiki 古事記 (Record Ancient Matters, 712 CE) reveals ways which Japan’s early Nara period elites appropriated aspects China’s Daoist traditions for their own literary, mythological, and political purposes. This debt Daoism on part oldest Shintō 神道 scripture, turn, extent were eclectically mined content that Japanese useful...

Background: Medical doctors’ strikes are a common global phenomenon. In the recent past, a number of strikes have been reported in various developing countries including India. The objective of this ethical overview is (a) to study and describe reasons, modalities and impacts of the doctors’ strikes in India, (b) to develop an ethical reflection on doctors’ strike and (c) to evaluate the doctor...

Music in India has very ancient roots. Indian classical music is considered to be one of the oldest musical traditions in the world but compared to Western music very little work has been done in the areas of genre recognition, classification, automatic tagging, comparative studies etc. In this work, we investigate the structural differences between Indian and Western music forms and compare th...

Abstract Benjamin Disraeli has often been represented as a mercurial self-fashioner who adopted various expedient personae over the course of his public life. The biographical emphasis on eccentric personality caused many historians to distance from nineteenth-century intellectual contexts in their analysis thought. wrote within literary culture that remained invested Bible an important narrati...

This paper has three parts. In the first part, we bring to the fore an ancient Vedic concept of mesocosm and discuss its religious and cosmic significance within Indian religion. This part also brings an initial approach towards philosophy of spirituality by focusing on the role of breath within the very concept of mesocosm. In the second part, based on our preliminary analysis, we present an o...