One highly popular and respected General Agency program is the “ Week of Compassion ,” named for the special offering to fund the program when it began in the 1950s.

Compassion for all life, human and non-human, is central to Jainism.

* Charter for Compassion

This process continued in Manichaeism's meeting with Chinese Buddhism, where, for example, the original Aramaic karia ( the " call " from the world of Light to those seeking rescue from the world of Darkness ), becomes identified in the Chinese scriptures with Guan Yin ( or Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit, literally, " watching / perceiving sounds the world ", the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion ).

She is an advocate for a number of charities and animal welfare groups such as Compassion in World Farming and Vegetarians ' International Voice for Animals She has won three BAFTA awards and a British Comedy Award.

The duet would also serve as a theme song for Compassion International, a Christian child advocacy ministry.

Keaggy and Stonehill would also team up with singer Margaret Becker, drummer Joe English ( former member of Paul McCartney and Wings ) and others, in 1988 for the Compassion All Star Band's album One by One.

* Tenzin Gyatso Institute for Wisdom and Compassion a Buddhist retreat center operated by Rigpa.

* World Centers of Compassion for Children International

He is also an avid spokesperson for sponsoring children through Compassion International.

The campaign to achieve the UDAW is being co-ordinated by the World Society for the Protection of Animals, with a core working group including Compassion in World Farming, the RSPCA, and the Humane Society International ( the international branch of HSUS ).

In 2000, Alexakis testified before Congress in support of HR 1488, the Compassion for Children and Child Support Enforcement Act.

The words " Wisdom, Justice, Compassion, Integrity " are woven into thistles at the head of the mace to represent the aspirations of the Scottish people for the Members of their Parliament.

* The Divine Compassion, Sacred Cantata for Tenor, Baritone, Chorus and Organ

Compassion !, with Lane and John Glover, which examines the relationships of eight gay men ; Master Class ( 1995 ); a character study of legendary opera soprano Maria Callas, which starred Zoe Caldwell and won the Tony for Best Play ; and the least-known of the group, Dedication, or The Stuff of Dreams, with Lane and Marian Seldes.

Warren Saul Hitzig co-founded the Toronto Compassion Centre ( originally the ' Medical Marijuana Resource Centre ') in 1997 to provide high quality cannabis products to those with a documented medicinal need and to act as a medical marijuana information resource for the Canadian general public.

Compassion for the brute is declared to have been the merit of Moses which made him the shepherd of his people ( Exodus Rabbah 2 ), while Judah ha-Nasi saw in his own ailment the punishment for having once failed to show compassion for a frightened calf.

Compassion is the virtue of empathy for the suffering of others.

In the Jewish tradition, God is the Compassionate and is invoked as the Father of Compassion: hence Raḥmana or Compassionate becomes the usual designation for His revealed word.

Compassion for all life, human and non-human, is central to the Jain tradition.

Compassion for social pain in others was associated with strong activation in the interoceptive, inferior / posterior portion of this region, while compassion for physical pain in others involved heightened activity in the exteroceptive, superior / anterior portion.

: Kirpa Taar Raheem :: Shower your mercy and Compassion ( on all )

She has pursued this line of thought and feeling as well as a member of Feel Tank Chicago and on the way has edited books on Compassion ( 2004 ) and Intimacy ( 2001 ), which won an award for being the best special issue among all journals in the same year from the Academy of American Publishers, and which are interlinked with her work in feminist and queer theory in essays like " Sex in Public " ( Critical Inquiry ( 1999 )), Our Monica, Ourselves: Clinton and the Affairs of State ( with Lisa Duggan, 2001 ) and Venus Inferred ( with photographer Laura Letinsky, 2001 ).

He gave cuttings of this rare plant to all his neighbors and began selling the tea under the name Tieguanyin, Iron Bodhisattva of Compassion.

The church has a diverse outreach and focuses all of its ministries on its " DNA ": Powerful Preaching, Extravagant Generosity, and Radical Compassion ..

Compassion in World Farming also supported the recommendation saying " We believe that the law must be changed to require all animals to be stunned before slaughter.

In the Faction Paradox novel Of the City of the Saved ... by Philip Purser-Hallard, Compassion established an afterlife known as The City of the Saved for all humans and human-descended sentient beings.

# Compassion ( Pāli and Sanskrit: karuṇā ): the hope that a person's sufferings will diminish ; " the wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering.

His books include Introduction to Tantra, Wisdom Energy, The Bliss of Inner Fire, Becoming Vajrasattva: The Tantric Path of Purification, and Becoming the Compassion Buddha, all of which are available from Wisdom Publications.

Compassion & Choices is a non-profit organization that supports, advocates, and educates people about health care options that can expand choice at the end of life.

Compassion and Choices has been essential in aiding the legislative process in trying to pass laws to help give terminally ill and mentally-able patients a choice in their end of life options.

Brinkley is co-founder and Board Chairman of the Twilight Brigade ( formerly called Compassion in Action ), a non-profit international organization that supports bedside volunteers who provide companionship to those who are dying, especially veterans, during the last months of life.

Kents Hill School is committed to values-based education, promoting the school's ten Core Values in every facet of school life: Altruism, Compassion, Courage, Friendship, Honesty, Perseverance, Responsibility, Scholarship, Sportsmanship, and Tolerance.

Compassion & Choices ( which was created by the merger of the Hemlock Society, briefly named End of Life Choices, with Compassion In Dying ) is a nonprofit organization in the United States working to improve patients ' rights and choices at the end of life.

By this time TARDISes have evolved to point where they appear human and reproduce sexually ( the Doctor's companion Compassion is the first such TARDIS ).

* The Flag of Compassion is a means to express the general human feeling of compassion over and above politics, legal causes, religion, race and gender.

( Facial Expression, Awareness, Compassion, Emotions ) and redeveloped as a tool to learn about identifying and recognizing facial expressions in the human face.

* the Compassion Capital fund, an initiative designed to strengthen the role faith-based organizations play in human services ;

The Week of Compassion is the disaster relief and Third World development agency.

* lines 15. 131-158 – Compassion is what separates humans from animals.

In fact the widespread worship of Guanyin as a " Goddess of Mercy and Compassion " is seen as the boundless salvific nature of bodhisattva Avalokitesvara at work ( in Buddhism, this is referred to as Guanyin's " skillful means ", or upaya ).

Compassion, a valuable virtue, can only exist if there is suffering.

The Dalai Lama is regarded as the embodiment of the Bodhisattva of Compassion.

In his paper Hospitality and Pain, Christian theologian Ivan Illich states: " Compassion with Christ ... is faith so strong and so deeply incarnate that it leads to the individual embodiment of the contemplated pain.

According to Master Hsuan Hua, the most popular example of esoteric teachings still practiced in many Zen monasteries of East Asia, is the and its dhāraṇī (), along with the Great Compassion Dharani (), with its 42 Hands and Eyes Mantras.

Compassion International is a Christian child sponsorship organization dedicated to the long-term development of children living in poverty around the world.

As of February 2010 the cost to sponsor a child through Compassion is $ 38 per month.

Gendun Drup ( 1391 – 1474 ), also known as Gendun Drub and Kundun Drup, is considered retrospectively to be the first of the Dalai Lamas of Tibet, who are believed to be reincarnations of Chenresig ( Sanskrit: Avalokiteshvara ), the Bodhisattva of Compassion.

Specializing in disaster relief, Operation Blessing was involved in relief work following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ( Indonesian tsunami ), OBI is also a national member of the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster ( NVOAD ), Combined Federal Campaign ( CFC ), Christian Service Charities, Christian Service Organizations of America ( CSOA ), the Global Compassion Network, the Virginia Trucking Association, and the American Trucking Associations ( ATA ).

The church, located transversely with respect to the outside, is called the drawer, single-deck ship with simple pair and knuckle armor, and presbytery on scallops covered with a dome decorated with paintings alluding to Christ's Passion and Compassion Mary.

There are seven primary schools in Formby ; Woodlands, Redgate CP, Our Lady of Compassion RC, St. Jerome's RC, Trinity St. Peters C. of E., Freshfield CP and St Luke's C. of E. Trinity St Peters C. of E. in Formby is the amalgamation of two former primary schools-St. Peter's and Holy Trinity-which closed down in July 2006.

Compassion is often regarded as emotional in nature, and there is an aspect of compassion which regards a quantitative dimension, such that individual's compassion is often given a property of " depth ," " vigour ," or " passion.