Contemporary Buddhist teachers and translators emphasize that while the central message of Buddhism is optimistic, the Buddhist view of our situation in life ( the conditions that we live in ) is neither pessimistic nor optimistic, but realistic.

Contemporary Buddhist teacher Ajahn Brahm emphasizes this point using a simile that compares the experience of dukkha to being in prison, and compares meditation ( Pali: jhana ) to a tunnel that leads out of the prison:

Contemporary research suggests that these works are datable to a significantly later period in Buddhist history ( late eighth or early ninth century ), but the tradition of which they are a part maintains that they are the work of the Madhyamaka Nāgārjuna and his school.

* Moreman, Christopher M. " A Modern Meditation on Death: Identifying Buddhist Teachings in George A. Romero ’ s Night of the Living Dead ," Contemporary Buddhism 9 ( No. 2, 2008 ): pp. 151 – 165.

* In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers.

On the Buddhist Truths and the Paradoxes in Population Ethics, Contemporary Buddhism, Vol.

Over the course of the fifteen years Batchelor lived at Sharpham, he became coordinator of the Sharpham Trust ( 1992 ) and co-founder of the Sharpham College for Buddhist Studies and Contemporary Enquiry ( 1996 ).

Contemporary instruction for the cultivation of loving-kindness – such as is found in the works of Sharon Salzberg, the Triratna Buddhist Community's Kamalashila, and Matthieu Ricard – is often based in part on a method found in Buddhaghosa's 5th c. CE Pāli exegetical text, the Path to Purification ( Pali: Visuddhimagga ), Chapter IX.

The Third Wave was an experiment to demonstrate the appeal of fascism undertaken by history teacher Ron Jones with sophomore high school students attending his Contemporary History as part of a study of Nazi Germany.

Contemporary with Giovanni Pisano, the Florentine painter Giotto developed a manner of figurative painting that was unprecedentedly naturalistic, three dimensional, lifelike and classicising, when compared with that of his contemporaries and teacher Cimabue.

“ Contemporary views of learning and their pedagogical applications have begun to change traditional classroom interaction patterns, shaping the communicative roles of the teacher and students as participants in a classroom learning community ,” writes David Wray & Kristiina Kumpulainen.

Bertram Turetzky ( b. February 14, 1933 ) is a contemporary American double bass ( contrabass ) soloist, teacher, and author of The Contemporary Contrabass ( 1974, 1989 ), a book that looked at a number of new and interesting ways of playing the double bass including featuring it as a solo performance vehicle with no other instrumental accompaniment.

It was undertaken by history teacher Ron Jones with sophomore high school students attending his " Contemporary World " history class as part of a study of Nazi Germany.

Sinfoni Melayu ( or Sinfoni Malaya ) is mentioned in Contemporary composers as a symphony composed by Anthony Burgess in 1956, when he was a teacher at Malay College Kuala Kangsar.

Contemporary scholar Peter D. Santina explains:

It was produced for students at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, which Paddy Scannell explains, “ largely accounts for the provisional feel of the text and its ‘ incompleteness ’” ( Scannell 2007, p. 211 ).

Contemporary t ' ai chi ch ' uan is typically practised for a number of widely varying reasons: health, external / internal martial art skills, aesthetics, meditation or as an athletic / competition sport ( sometimes called " wushu tai chi ").

Contemporary furniture that is neither Danish nor straight-line modern but has sculptured pattern, many design facets, warmth, dignity and an effect of utter comfort and livability.

Contemporary anthropology is an established science with academic departments at most universities and colleges.

Often, if the skill is being used in a functional object, people will consider it a craft instead of art, a suggestion which is highly disputed by many Contemporary Craft thinkers.

* WECR-FM 102. 3 FM is an Adult Contemporary radio station, mostly music, also University of North Carolina Tar Heels sports network, and Carolina Panthers football.

Contemporary Hindu eschatology is linked in the Vaishnavite tradition to the figure of Kalki, or the tenth and last avatar of Vishnu before the age draws to a close, and Shiva simultaneously dissolves and regenerates the universe.

Contemporary scientific research suggests that the majority of the human population is bisexual, adhering to a fluid sexual scale rather than a category, as Western society typically views sexual nature.

Contemporary Hinduism is mostly monistic, or in some instances monotheistic ( see Hindu views on monotheism ).

As part of University Museums, the Christian Petersen Art Museum at Morrill Hall is the home of the Christian Petersen Art Collection, the Art on Campus Program, the University Museums ’ Visual Literacy and Learning Program, and Contemporary Changing Art Exhibitions Program.

Contemporary Jainism is a small but influential religious minority with as many as 6 million followers in India and growing immigrant communities in North America, Western Europe, the Far East, Australia and elsewhere.

Contemporary Islamic scholar Abdullah Yusuf Azzam has argued the hadith is not just weak but " is in fact a false, fabricated hadith which has no basis.

Contemporary virtue jurisprudence is inspired by philosophical work on virtue ethics.

Perhaps the most significant difference between the Contemporary City and the Radiant City is that the latter abandons the class-based stratification of the former ; housing is now assigned according to family size, not economic position.

In 1928 the music critic Andre Coeuroy, wrote in the Panorama of Contemporary Music that " perhaps the time is not far off when a composer will be able to represent through recording, music specifically composed for the gramophone " ( Coeuroy 1928, 162 ).

The difference is mostly in the era and styles covered -- Easy Listening is mostly older music done in the style of standards from the early 20th century ( typical artists include Johnny Mathis and Frank Sinatra ) combined with Big Band music and more modern performers in the same style such as Céline Dion and Josh Groban, while Adult Contemporary focuses more on newer pop music from the 1970s on.

Perhaps the best-known Adult Contemporary station currently in operation is WLTW in New York City, better known as 106. 7 Lite FM.

Contemporary pagan ritual is typically geared towards " facilitating altered states of awareness or shifting mind-sets.

Contemporary virtue jurisprudence is inspired by philosophical work on virtue ethics.

Contemporary ethical debate is often described as " secular ", with the work of Derek Parfit and Peter Singer, and even the whole field of contemporary bioethics, having been described or self-described as explicitly secular or non-religious.

* Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea ( Galician Center for Contemporary Art ), designed by Alvaro Siza Vieira

Contemporary with the Charing Cross Hotel was a replica of the Eleanor Cross in Red Mansfield stone, also designed by Edward Middleton Barry, that was erected in the station forecourt.

The city of Durango hosts a variety of museums including Museo Regional de Durango ( Regional Museum of Durango ), Museo Arqueológico de Durango Ganot-Peschard ( Ganot-Peschard Museum of Archaeology ), Museo de Arte Moderno Guillermo Ceniceros ( Guillermo Ceniceros Art Museum ), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Angel Zárraga ( Angel Zagarra Museum of Contemporary Art ), Museo Temático de Cine " Museo del Cine " ( Thematic Film Museum ), Museo de la Revolución en Durango ( Museum of the Revolution in Durango ), Mueseo de Arte Sacro ( Museum of Sacred Art ) and a museum designed especially for children: El Bebeleche-Museo Interactivo de Durango ( Bebeleche-Interactive Museum Durango ).

The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, the city's main landmark, was designed by the famous Brazilian modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer.

* Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh-featured all 13 typographic labels designed for the Historia type specimen in the exhibit " Deep Surface: Contemporary Ornament and Pattern "

According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide it is designed for solo, duo / groups or collaborative ( vocal or instrumental ) gospel or Contemporary Christian music ( CCM ) and its subgenres ' recordings and is limited to singles or tracks only.

Contemporary architecture characterizes the majority of Pitzer's buildings, several of which were designed by Gwathmey-Siegel following major donations from Eli Broad, a board member emeritus and former chair of the Pitzer College Board of Trustees.

The four-story building designed by Josef Paul Kleihues, which was five times larger than its predecessor, made the Museum of Contemporary Art ( MCA ) Chicago the largest institution devoted to contemporary art in the world.

Journal of Contemporary Art, a low-cost, desktop-published art journal, 1988. In New York City, in 1988, collaborating with the painter, John Zinsser, Philip Pocock co-founded, co-published, co-edited, and designed on an Apple Macintosh Plus and Laserwriter, the early low-cost, interview-based, desktop-published Journal of Contemporary Art, announced in the New York Times 1988-01-22.

Contemporary Fashion gives a preview of the creation of the LV trunks: " the craftsmen line up the leather and canvas, tapping in the tiny nails one by one and securing the five-letter solid pick-proof brass locks with an individual handmade key, designed to allow the traveler to have only one key for all of his or her luggage.

His recent projects include an architectural commission at Naoshima Contemporary Art Center in Japan, for which Sugimoto designed and built a Shinto shrine.

The Contemporary was designed as a 14-story steel A-frame with a monorail running through the building.

Over the years, Imagineering has conceived a whole range of retail stores, galleries, and hotels that are designed to be experienced and to create and sustain a very specific mood – for example, the mood of Disney's Contemporary Resort could be called “ futuristic optimism ,” and it ’ s readily apparent given the resort ’ s A-frame structure, futuristic building techniques, modern décor, and the monorail gliding quietly through the lobby every few minutes.

The largest artworks to date by Langlands & Bell are, the 2004 Paddington Basin Bridge, designed in association with Atelier One ( structural engineers ), an 8 metre high x 45 metre long white metal and glass pedestrian bridge linking Paddington station and the new Paddington Basin Development, London, with a capacity of up to 20, 000 people per day ; Moving World ( Night & Day ) 2007, two 6 x 18 metre permanent outdoor sculptures of steel, glass, and digitally controlled neon at London Heathrow, Terminal 5 ; and China, Language of Places 2009, the 18 metre wall painting exhibited in English Lounge at Tang Contemporary Art, 798, Beijing in 2009.

In October 1997, P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center reopened to the public after a three-year, $ 8. 5 million renovation project designed by Los Angeles-based architect Frederick Fisher, who had been working closely with Heiss and supervised by the New York architect David W. Prendergast.

The complex has been designed and built to the same standards of quality as Tehran City Theater, Vahdat Hall and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts.

* Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl

His work was included in the ' First Sale of Contemporary British Crafts ' at Sotheby's in 1980 and in 2002 at the Centenary exhibition celebrating the Hill House designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In 1989 he gained The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers Ambrose Heal Award for his craft documentary films.

The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art ( SECCA ), located at 750 Marguerite Drive in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a gallery designed to involve audiences in the art of our time.

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, designed by Gunnar Birkerts, 1992-1994.