Ānanda Mārga ( Sanskrit, m.,, ), organizationally known as Ānanda Mārga Pracaraka Samgha ( AMPS ), meaning the samgha ( organization ) for the propagation of the marga ( path ) of ananda ( bliss ), is a social and spiritual movement founded in Jamalpur, Bihar, India in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar ( 1921 – 1990 ), also known by his spiritual name, Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti.

The name Saccidānanda, Satchidananda, or Sat-cit-ānanda ( Sanskrit: सच ् च ि द ा न ं द ) is a compound of three Sanskrit words, Sat ( सत ्), Cit ( च ि त ्), and Ānanda ( आन ं द ) ( the ā is of longer vocal length ), meaning essence, consciousness, and bliss, respectively.

The word ' Ānanda ' means ' bliss ' in Pali, Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages.

Overjoyed at his precocious talent, Acyuta Prekṣa consecrated him as the head of the empire of Vedānta and conferred upon him the title of Ānanda Tīrtha ( saint of immaculate bliss ).

) where each of them is declared to be the chief in some quality, Ānanda is mentioned five times ( more often than any other ).

The name conferred on him at the time of consecration as the Master of Vedanta is " Ānanda Tīrtha ".

Ānanda was the first cousin of the Buddha by their fathers, and was devoted to him.

In the Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, the Buddha begins by describing to his attendant Ānanda a past life of the buddha Amitābha.

In the Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, the Buddha begins by describing to his attendant Ānanda a past life of the buddha Amitābha.

Devadatta ( Sanskrit and Pali: द े वदत ् त devadatta ; Sinhalese: ද ේ වදත ් ත ; ) was by tradition a Buddhist monk, cousin and brother-in-law of Gautama Siddārtha, the Śākyamuni Buddha, and brother of Ānanda, a principal student of the Buddha.

However, he used Ānanda Tīrtha or Sukha Tīrtha also to author his works.

Ānanda was one of the principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha.

Amongst the Buddha's many disciples, Ānanda had the most retentive memory and most of the suttas in the Sutta Pitaka are attributed to his recollection of the Buddha's teachings during the First Buddhist Council.

In the case of Gautama Buddha the pair of disciples were Sariputta and Mahamoggallana and the attendant Ānanda.

Because he attended the Buddha personally and often traveled with him, Ānanda overheard and memorized many of the discourses the Buddha delivered to various audiences.

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (, Ānanda Kentiś Kūmaraswāmī ) ( 22 August 1877, Colombo, Ceylon − 9 September 1947, Needham, Massachusetts ) was a Ceylonese philosopher and metaphysician, as well as a pioneering historian and philosopher of Indian art, particularly art history and symbolism, and an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West.

He was a contemporary of such famous arhats as Śāriputra, Mahākāśyapa, Mahāmaudgalyāyana, Mahākātyāyana, and Ānanda.

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It has strong informal ties to the Parti Québécois ( PQ, whose members are known as " Péquistes "), the provincial party that advocates for the secession of Quebec from Canada and its independence, but the two are not linked organizationally.

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The Police Battalions were organizationally and administratively under Chief of Police Kurt Daluege but operationally they were under the authority of regional SS-und Polizeiführer ( SS and Police Leaders ), who reported up a separate chain of command, bypassing Daluege, directly to Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler.

Ale Ebrahim, N., Ahmed, S. & Taha, Z. in their recent ( 2009 ) literature review paper, added two key issues to definition of a virtual team “ as small temporary groups of geographically, organizationally and / or time dispersed knowledge workers who coordinate their work predominantly with electronic information and communication technologies in order to accomplish one or more organization tasks ”.

The most controversial part of Chalmers ’ proposal is that mental properties are “ organizationally invariant ;” i. e., nothing over and above abstract causal organization.

" Ale Ebrahim, N., Ahmed, S. & Taha, Z. in their recent ( 2009 ) literature review paper, added two key issues to definition of a virtual team “ as small temporary groups of geographically, organizationally and / or time dispersed knowledge workers who coordinate their work predominantly with electronic information and communication technologies in order to accomplish one or more organization tasks ” Members of virtual teams communicate electronically and may never meet face-to-face.

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But it laid the groundwork for the large and organizationally complex White House staff that would emerge during the presidencies of Roosevelt's successors.

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In 1969, these congregations and others were united organizationally under the umbrella of the Society for Humanistic Judaism ( SHJ ).

The association was strengthened at all levels for a couple of years, not least organizationally and financially, with new sports director " Mr. Elfsborg " Stefan Andreasson, President-elect Bosse " Bank " Johansson and two billionaires as external funders.

As of the 2007 General Assembly, the EPC has created a temporary, non-geographic " New Wineskins Presbytery " ( NWEPC ) to provide a home for churches associated with the New Wineskins Association of Churches ( NWAC ) that are seeking to find a new denominational home after finding that their current home in the PC ( USA ) is no longer suitable to them theologically, organizationally, or missionally.

In turn, organizationally speaking, slacktivism may result in a “ waste of resources, lack of productivity and a risk of liability for the employer .” An NPR piece from 2009 also astutely asks whether " the publicity gains gained through this greater reliance on new media worth the organizational losses that traditional activists entities are likely to suffer, as ordinary people would begin to turn away from conventional ( and proven ) forms of activism.

Perhaps more controversially, WordAlone also started a body called Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ ( LCMC ) which is now legally and organizationally separate from WordAlone though there is some cooperation between the two.

The association was strengthened at all levels for a couple of years, not least organizationally and financially, with new sports director " Mr. Elfsborg " Stefan Andreasson, President-elect Bosse " Bank " Johansson and two billionaires as external funders.

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The Violent Criminal Apprehension Program ( ViCAP ) is a unit of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation responsible for the analysis of serial violent and sexual crimes, organizationally situated within the Critical Incident Response Group's ( CIRG ) National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime ( NCAVC ).

* The development of a feasibility study, involving determining whether a project is economically, socially, technologically and organizationally feasible.

Falun Gong is centralized in that spiritual authority is vested in the corpus of teachings of the founder, Li Hongzhi, but organizationally it is decentralized with local branches and assistants afforded no special privileges, authority, or titles.

To sum up: The lines of cleavage between Pablo's revisionism and orthodox Trotskyism are so deep that no compromise is possible either politically or organizationally.

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Wright-Patterson AFB is " one of the largest, most diverse, and organizationally complex bases in the Air Force " with a long history of flight test spanning from the Wright Brothers into the Space Age.

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The university is organizationally and personally interlinked with the following independent and semi-independent institutions.

It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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Massman Hall is the center of the campus, both physically and organizationally.

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