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111Petrarch — Infobox Writer name = Francesco Petrarca imagesize = 150 px caption = pseudonym = birthdate = Birth date|1304|7|20|df=yes birthplace = Arezzo deathdate = Death date and age|1374|7|19|1304|7|20|df=yes deathplace = Arquà Petrarca occupation =… …
112Christian mysticism — Union with Christ is the purpose of Christian mysticism. Christian mysticism refers to the development of mystical practices and theory within Christianity. It has often been connected to mystical theology, especially in the Catholic and Eastern… …
113Iamblichus — For the Greek novelist, see Iamblichus (novelist) (165 180). Iamblichus, also known as Iamblichus Chalcidensis, (Ancient Greek: polytonic|᾽Ιάμβλιχος, prob. fr. Syriac or Aramaic ya mlku , He is king , c. 245 c. 325) was a Syrian [George Sarton… …
114Jean Gebser — (August 20, 1905 ndash; May 14, 1973) was a prodigy, a student of the transformations of human consciousness, a linguist, and a poet.BiographyBorn Hans Gebser in Posen in Imperial Germany, he left Germany in 1929, living for a time in Italy and… …
115Yequan Shenxiu — Infobox Buddhist biography name = Yequan Shenxiu img size = img capt = landscape = birth name = other names = dharma name = birth date = 607 birth place = Luoyang, Henan, China death date = 706 death place = nationality = denomination = Zen… …
116Plato — /play toh/, n. 1. 427 347 B.C., Greek philosopher. 2. a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon, having a dark floor: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter. * * * orig. Aristocles born 428/427, Athens, or Aegina, Greece died… …
117religious symbolism and iconography — Introduction respectively, the basic and often complex artistic forms and gestures used as a kind of key to convey religious concepts and the visual, auditory, and kinetic representations of religious ideas and events. Symbolism and… …
118Albert Schweitzer — For the documentary film, see Albert Schweitzer (film). Albert Schweitzer Born …
119Nun — For other uses, see Nun (disambiguation). Nun in cloister, 1930; photography by Doris Ulmann A nun is a woman who has taken vows committing her to live a spiritual life.[1] She may be an ascetic who volunta …
120Mahamudra — Part of a series on Tibetan Buddhism …
