The genetic code has evolved from its initial non-degenerate wobble version until reaching its present state of degeneracy. By using the stereochemical hypothesis, we revisit the problem of codon assignations to the synonymy classes of amino-acids. We obtain these classes with a simple classifier based on physico-chemical properties of nucleic bases, like hydrophobicity and molecular weight. Th...

This article analyzes Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol’s (1781– 1851) Tibetan Buddhist response to interreligious and intersectarian difference. While there exist numerous studies in Buddhist ethics that address the Buddhist perspective on contemporary issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and terrorism, there has been considerably less attention paid to Buddhist responses towards religious difference....

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Pathology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital and Tzu Chi College of Technology, Hualien, ...

Cultural relics represent national or even global resources of inestimable value. How to efficiently manage and preserve these cultural relics is a vitally important issue. To achieve this goal, this study proposed, designed, and implemented an RFID and Sensor Web-enabled smart cultural relics management system (SCRMS). In this system, active photovoltaic subtle energy-powered Radio Frequency I...

The author attempts to integrate the concepts of self used in psychoanalytic theory with the understanding of the nature of self as explained within the Buddhist meditative tradition. He divides different concepts of self in psychoanalytic theory into three major levels of consciousness and abstraction: self as experience, representational self and self as system. The representational level is ...

This paper queries the logic of the structure of hierarchical philosophical systems. Following the Indian tradition of siddhānta, Tibetan Buddhist traditions articulate a hierarchy of philosophical views. The ‘Middle Way’ philosophy or Madhyamaka—the view that holds that the ultimate truth is emptiness—is, in general, held to be the highest view in the systematic depictions of philosophies in T...

buddhist temples in balkh and the portrait of buddha on sassanid coins imply buddhism’s spread to khorāsān, one of the originating places of sufism. contiguity and frequent travels between islamic and buddhist regions also caused the promulgation of the buddhist beliefs and customs which influenced sufism teachings in that area. in particular, the khorāsāni narrative of ibrahim adham story show...

Journal of Buddhist Ethics 6 (1999): 219 In 1839, Robert Spence Hardy, Methodist missionary to what was then Ceylon, wrote The British Government and the Idolatry of Ceylon, a polemical pamphlet which accused the ruling British authorities of supporting a religion abhorrent to the mind of God because of its idolatry and Ògross superstitionsÓ (Hardy, 1839, p. 46). He was talking of Buddhism. Tha...