High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Namkha is a form of yarn or thread cross composed traditionally of wool or silk and is metonymic of the Endless knot of the Ashtamangala. In certain rites, the Namkha becomes a pure land 'abode' or 'temenos' of a thoughtform; where in other rites it becomes a snare for demons. It is a form of intentional process art. Weavings of a similar nature are called "God's eye" in English folk art. In the Bon and Vajrayana Buddhist traditions, a namkha is constructed as the temporary dwelling or temenos for a deity during ritual practice. The structure of the namkha is traditionally made with colored thread symbolic of the elements (blue, green, red, white, and yellow; space, air, fire, water, and earth...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Namwianga Mission was established in 1920 in Kalomo, Zambia under the Churches of Christ with the purpose of teaching the Bible and promoting Christianity. On the mission site there are six elementary schools, four junior high schools, and three high schools. Namwianga also contains the George Benson Christian College, which trains secondary teachers in the areas of Math-Religious Education or English-Religious Education, and many graduates go on to plant churches around Zambia. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fo Guang Shan Buddhism is rooted in the Mahayana tradition which emphasises that Buddhahood is within everyone's potential reach. Fo Guang Shan followers strive to bring Buddhism into daily life and describe their philosophy as "Humanistic Buddhism." It was funded by and constructed under the auspices of the Mahayana Buddhist sect known as Fo Guang Shan, and completed in 1995. The sect itself was founded in Taiwan in 1967 by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, and has 120 branches throughout the world. The site of the Australian branch's temple was reputedly chosen by Hsing Yun due to its proximity to Mount Kembla,...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nana Buluku (or Nanan-bouclou) is the Supreme Deity of the Fon from Dahomey. Nana Buluku is an androgynous deity. Like the Judeo-Christian god, Nana Buluku created the Universe and all that exists in it. Twins were born to Nana Buluku: the moon god Mawu and the sun god Lisa. Nana Buluku was also incorporated into the Yoruba religion as Yemaja, the female thought of the male creator Ashe and the effective cause of all further creation. Worship of the deity spread to the rest of the world, especially through centuries of captured slaves who were purchased and sold all over the Americas. She is celebrated as Nana...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nanamoli Bhikkhu, born Osbert Moore, (1905—March 8, 1960) was a pioneer British Theravada Buddhist monk and Pali scholar, educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He discovered Buddhism via Julius Evola's The Doctrine of Awakening (translated by H.E.Musson) while serving in Italy during World War II. He joined the BBC after the war. In 1949 he went to Sri Lanka and ordained samanera with friend Harold Edward Musson (Nanavira Thera). In 1950 he received his bhikkhu ordination at Vajirarama Temple (Colombo), then studied with Nanatiloka Mahathera at Island Hermitage, Dodanduwa, where he spent almost his entire monk...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Nanbai are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Many members of Nanbai community have migrated to Pakistan after independence and have settled in Karachi, Sindh. They specialize in baking fermented loaves, and are known to be experts in preparing tandoori breads, known as naans. This special type of baked bread is referred to as a Nan. The etymology of the word Nanbai, is those who are makers of the nan. The community is said to have evolved from the families of the cooks at the courts of the various Muslim rulers of North India. Данное издание не является...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The efforts by Arnold and James Tabor represented probably the best hope for a peaceful end to the siege. By working within Koresh's biblical system, they had suggested to him an alternative reading of critical passages in the book (Revelation). By this reading, Koresh should have written or recorded his explanation of the seven seals. The prophesied destruction of the true believers would not have taken place, in this reading, for a long time. The Davidians would have been free to leave their settlement and deal with the government to resolve their differences. Koresh evidently took this teaching and began his...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nancy J. Duff (b. May 2, 1951) is an American professor of theology. Duff is the Stephen Colwell Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she has taught since 1990. Duff is also a Presbyterian minister in the PCUSA denomination. She is married to United Methodist Minister David Mertz. She has taught courses on the Decalogue, Biomedical ethics, human sexaulity, liturgy and the Christian life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, James Cone, types of Christian ethics, and vocation in Christian tradition and contemporary life. In 1973, Duff earned her undergraduate degree in English from...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sister Nancy Salisbury, RSCJ (May 15, 1930 – September 27, 2004) was a Roman Catholic nun, educator and academic. Sister Salisbury professed her final vows as a nun in 1960. She was the longtime headmistress of New York's oldest independent school for girls, the Convent of the Sacred Heart (CSH). In her 20 years as headmistress, starting in 1980, she overhauled the school's curriculum, upgraded its facilities and nearly doubled its enrollment. In 1990, the school received a Blue Ribbon Award for Academic Excellence from the United States Department of Education. She previously taught at Sacred Heart schools in...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wilson was elected Moderator of the denomination of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) by the Church's General Conference in Calgary, Alberta in July 2005. In accordance with the Bylaws of Metropolitan Community Churches, Rev. Wilson's name was placed in nomination by the denomination's Moderators Nominating Committee and her nomination was ratified with the overwhelming endorsement of the lay and clergy voting delegates to the 2005 MCC General Conference. Wilson was installed as Moderator at Washington National Cathedral in 2005. Данное издание не является оригинальным....

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Nandwana Brahmins are a group of Nandimukh Brahmins who live in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat of India. They were priests to the Yadava Dynasty and the history is published in the 1989 edition of the Nandwana samaj sampark" Their ancestor Sukhdevji was the messenger who took the message (approx 500 years ago) from Krishna to Rukmini's parents. The current population of Nandwana Brahmins is 3500. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nantes Cathedral or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Nantes (French: Cathedrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes; Breton: Iliz-Veur Sant-Per-ha-Sant-Paol Naoned), is a Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Nantes, Brittany, France. The construction of the cathedral began in 1434, on the site of a Romanesque cathedral, and took 457 years to finish, finally reaching completion in 1891.The reconstruction of the cathedral commenced during the early to mid-15th century during a time when Nantes and Brittany were commercially prosperous, initiating such large-scale architectural projects on a wide scale, partly owing to the opportunist and skilful diplomatic policy of John VI in...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naomi Levy is an American rabbi, author and speaker. Levy was born and raised in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, New York. She attended Bialik School and Yeshivah of Flatbush. She attended Cornell University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. In 1984, she was in the first class of women to enter The Jewish Theological Seminary's rabbinical school. At the seminary, Rabbi Levy received honors as outstanding underclass student of Talmud and outstanding underclass rabbinical student. In 1989, Rabbi Levy became the first female Conservative rabbi to head a pulpit on the West Coast. She led...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naomi Harriet Ward Randall (October 5, 1908 – May 17, 2001) was a Latter-day Saint songwriter and author and a leader in the Primary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1957, Randall wrote the lyrics to "I Am a Child of God", an LDS hymn that was originally written as a song for children. Randall served as a member of the general board of the Primary Association for 27 years. As a member of the board, she was asked to write a song for children that would teach them the LDS Church beliefs on the nature of a child's relationship with God. The result was "I Am a Child of God", which has now...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naphtali Luccock (1853 — 1916) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1912. He was born on 28 September 1853 in Kimbolton, Ohio. He entered the Traveling Ministry of the Pittsburgh Annual Conference of the M.E. Church (which at that time included eastern Ohio) in 1874. Later he was transferred to the St. Louis conference.New International Encyclopedia Prior to his election to the episcopacy, Dr. Luccock served as a Pastor. His was a brief episcopal incumbency, for he died within his first quadrennium, on 1 April 1916 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was buried in the Bellefontaine...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Naples Bible is the second printed Old Testament Bible in Hebrew. The very first complete printed Hebrew Bible was published by the Soncino brothers in 1488. This was then followed by the Naples Bible in 1491–1493. It is not to be confused with a 14th century illuminated manuscript bible, in the Latin Vulgate, also known as the "Illuminated Naples Bible". Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naples Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Napoli, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta or Cattedrale di San Gennaro) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, the main church of Naples, southern Italy, and the seat of the Archbishop of Naples. It is widely known as the Cattedrale di San Gennaro, in honour of Saint Januarius, the city's patron saint, but is actually dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The present cathedral was commissioned by King Charles I of Anjou. Construction continued during the reign of his successor, Charles II (1285-1309) and was completed in the early 14th century under Robert of Anjou....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Narada or Narada Muni is a divine sage from the Vaisnava tradition, who plays a prominent role in a number of the Puranic texts, especially in the Bhagavata Purana, and in the Ramayana. Narada is the author of the P?ncar?tra a standerd book for Vaisnava's priests which contain the technical and phylisophical meanings of the temple Deity worship. This book is very important for the Hare Krsna movement, since they belong to the same Guru-Sampradaya (a very long chain of spiritual masters) as Narada. Narada is portrayed as a travelling monk with the ability to visit distant worlds or planets, lokas in Sanskrit. He carries a musical instrument known as a Tampura, which he uses to accompany his...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Naraka is the name given to one of the worlds of greatest suffering in some Buddhist cosmology.Naraka is usually translated into English as "hell" or "purgatory". The Narakas of Buddhism are closely related to Di Yu, the hell of Chinese mythology. A Naraka differs from the hells of Abrahamic religions in two respects. First, beings are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment and punishment; second, the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually very long. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Narasimha (IAST Narasi?ha, Sanskrit ), also spelt as Narasingh and Narasinga, is an avatara of Vishnu described in the Puranas, Upanishads and other ancient religious texts of Hinduism, and one of Hinduism's most popular deities, as evidenced in early epics, iconography, and temple and festival worship for over a millennium.He is often visualized as half-man/half-lion, having a human-like torso and lower body, with a lion-like face and claws. This image is widely worshiped in deity form by a significant number of Vaishnava groups, particularly in Southern India. He is known primarily as the 'Great Protector' who specifically defends and protects his devotees in times of need. Данное...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Natchitoches Parish (French: Paroisse des Natchitoches) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Natchitoches. As of 2000, the population was 39,080. This is the heart of the Cane River Louisiana Creole community. The Natchitoches Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Natchitoches Parish. Including extensive outbuildings at Magnolia and Oakland plantations, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park interprets the history and culture of the Louisiana Creoles. It was designated one of the original sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. Данное издание не является...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (NCBCPS) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of its 300-page Bible curriculum, The Bible in History and Literature, in schools throughout the United States. It has been criticised as being inaccurate, and presenting biased promotion of a particular religious interpretation of the Bible as well as an unbalanced view of American history which promoted specific religious beliefs. Use of the curriculum has been challenged in lawsuits in two school districts, which have withdrawn the course as contravening the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Данное издание не является...

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National Socialism and Occultism. Religious aspects of Nazism, Esoteric Nazism, Neo- volkisch movements, Nazism, Occult, Satan, Pseudohistory Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Christian Forensics and Communications Association is a speech and debate league for Christian homeschooled students in the United States. The NCFCA was established in 2001 after outgrowing its parent organization, the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), which had been running the league since it was originally established in 1995. NCFCA is now organized under its own board of directors with regional and state leadership coordinating various tournaments throughout the season. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (usually identified as National Council of Churches or NCC) is an ecumenical partnership of 36 Christian faith groups in the United States. Its member denominations, churches, conventions, and archdioceses include Mainline Protestant, Orthodox, African-American, Evangelical, and historic Peace churches. Together, they encompass 100,000 local congregations and 45 million adherents. The present Council was organized in 1950 as a merger of the Federal Council of Churches, formed by the Protestant denominations in 1908, and several other ecumenical organizations including the International Council of Religious Education, formed in 1905, but...

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