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  2. Sherpa (emissary) - Wikipedia

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    The sherpa is generally quite influential, although they do not have the authority to make a final decision about any given agreement. The name is derived from the Sherpa people , a Nepalese ethnic group , who serve as guides and porters in the Himalayas , a reference to the fact that the sherpa does all the heavy lifting for the principal to ...

  3. Sherpa people - Wikipedia

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    The Sherpa people (Standard Tibetan: ཤར་པ།, romanized: shar pa) are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. The majority of Sherpas live in the eastern regions of Nepal, namely the Solukhumba , Khatra , Kama , Rolwaling , Barun , and Pharak valleys. [ 4 ]

  4. List of philosophies - Wikipedia

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    Absurdism – Academic skepticism – Achintya Bheda Abheda – Action, philosophy of – Actual idealism – Actualism – Advaita Vedanta – Aesthetic Realism – Aesthetics – African philosophy – Afrocentrism – Agential realism – Agnosticism – Agnostic theism – Ajātivāda – Ājīvika – Ajñana – Alexandrian school – Alexandrists – Ambedkarism – American philosophy ...

  5. Chhewang Nima - Wikipedia

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    Chhewang Nima (Nepali: छेवाङ निमा) (c. 1967 – 23 October 2010) was a Nepalese Sherpa who climbed Mount Everest 19 times. [1] He was also called Chuwang Nima, [2] and Chuwang Nima Sherpa. [3] Nima disappeared on 24 October 2010, after being struck by an avalanche near the summit of Baruntse. [1]

  6. Timeline of Western philosophers - Wikipedia

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    Functionalist in philosophy of mind. Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989). Influential American philosopher; Albert Camus (1913–1960). Absurdist. Paul Ricœur (1913–2005). French philosopher and theologian. Roland Barthes (1915–1980). French semiotician and literary theorist. Donald Davidson (1917–2003). Coherentist philosophy of mind. Louis ...

  7. Social Theory and Practice - Wikipedia

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    Social Theory and Practice is a peer-reviewed academic journal that features discussion of theoretical and applied questions in social, political, legal, economic, educational, and moral philosophy, including critical studies of classical and contemporary social philosophers. Established in 1970, it publishes original philosophical work by ...

  8. Ethics in Progress - Wikipedia

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    The journal was on the ministerial list of scored journals, with a score of 7 for 2016, 2017, 2018. In 2019, 2020 and 2021, the journal is on the ministerial list of scored journals, with a score of 40. [1] The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, [2] listed on Directory of Open Access Journals, [3] and on SHERPA/RoMEO journal policy database. [4]

  9. Jamgon Kongtrul - Wikipedia

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    Of the Five, the Treasury of Knowledge was Jamgon Kongtrul's magnum opus, covering the full spectrum of Buddhist history, philosophy and practice. There is an ongoing effort to translate it into English. It is divided up as follows: Book One: Myriad Worlds (Snow Lion, 2003.