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  2. Sreeni Pattathanam - Wikipedia

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    Sreeni Pattathanam (born 10 June 1956) is a rationalist, activist, and writer from Kerala, India.He was born in the Pattathanam area of Kollam City in the Indian state of Kerala.

  3. The Adolescent - Wikipedia

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    Arkady Makarovich Dolgoruky is the protagonist of the novel. He took the name Dolgoruky from his aged adoptive father, even though he is the illegitimate son of the dissipated landowner Versilov.

  4. Childhood in literature - Wikipedia

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    The Sacred Child: children represented as precious, fragile, and requiring protection The Child as Radically Other: presents children as inherently different from adults rather than as a developing adult The Developing Child: depicts the progression from child to adult and the facilitation this transformation

  5. Zen scriptures - Wikipedia

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    The sacred texts — and much more so the huge exegetical apparatus that had grown up around them in the older scholastic schools — were regarded as no more than signposts pointing the way to liberation. Valuable though they were as guides, they needed to be transcended in order for one to awaken to the true intent of Śākyamuni’s teachings.

  6. Jataka tales - Wikipedia

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    The Story of Cuḍḍabodhi (Khanti, patient acceptance) The Story of the Holy Swans (Maitrī, loving-kindness) The Story of Mahābodhi (Khanti) The Story of the Great Ape (Anukampā, compassion) The Story of the Śarabha (Anukampā) The Story of the Ruru-Deer (Dayā, kindness) The Story of the Great Monkey (Anuvartinā, obedience)

  7. Sacred history - Wikipedia

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    Sacred history is the retelling of history narratives "with the aim of instilling religious faith" regardless of whether or not the narratives are founded on fact. [1]In the context of the Hebrew texts that form the basis of Judaism, the term is used for all of the historical books of the Bible – i.e., Books of Kings, Ezra–Nehemiah and Books of Chronicles – spanning the period of the ...

  8. The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents - Wikipedia

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    ALAN, The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents is a teachers organization in the United States, an independent assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Founded in November 1973, ALAN is made up of teachers, authors, librarians, publishers, teacher-educators and their students, and others who are particularly interested ...

  9. Everyday Saints and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    A few days earlier there was a presentation of the book in the Library of Congress. [6] The book has been translated into more than 17 languages, including French, [7] Chinese, [8] Serbian [9] and others. The book tells us about the life in the Pskov-Caves Monastery and about other amazing stories from the lives of ordinary people. [10]