Initiation

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197553268.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 77-88

Author(s):

Patricia Sauthoff

Keyword(s):

Divine Nature ◽

The Gift

Chapter 5 turns toward the theoretical. It examines the use of mantra within initiation (dīkṣā) rites and how Sanskrit phonemes connect to the hierarchy of realities (tattva) through which one passes during initiation. This again offers an example of how the text describes the divine nature of sound. Initiation also offers a practitioner the ability to adopt a new identity. The process of initiation symbolically destroys the initiand’s body, unbinding his soul, and offering him the gift of liberation. The chapter analyzes sections of the Netra Tantra that speak to both the theoretical and practical elements of initiatory rites.

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Production of New and Revised A.A.V.S.O. Charts

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100073620 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 368

Author(s):

Clinton B. Ford

Keyword(s):

Variable Star ◽

Standard Form ◽

Original Data ◽

University Of Pennsylvania ◽

Standard Format ◽

Additional Information ◽

The Gift ◽

The University

A “new charts program” for the Americal Association of Variable Star Observers was instigated in 1966 via the gift to the Association of the complete variable star observing records, charts, photographs, etc. of the late Prof. Charles P. Olivier of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Adequate material covering about 60 variables, not previously charted by the AAVSO, was included in this original data, and was suitably charted in reproducible standard format.Since 1966, much additional information has been assembled from other sources, three Catalogs have been issued which list the new or revised charts produced, and which specify how copies of same may be obtained. The latest such Catalog is dated June 1978, and lists 670 different charts covering a total of 611 variables none of which was charted in reproducible standard form previous to 1966.

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