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 scholar Micheal Carrithers also emphasizes the need to examine one's life.

Contemporary life coaching can be traced to the teachings of Benjamin Karter, a college football coach turned motivational speaker of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

" Contemporary society may be described as a knowledge society based on the extensive penetration of all its spheres of life and institutions by scientific and technological knowledge " ( Stehr 2002b: 18 ).

Contemporary Malayalam poetry records the encounter with problems of social, political, and economic life.

Contemporary readers also enjoyed these novels because they gave a glimpse into the life of important society figures.

Contemporary arguments for the ' right ' to assistance to commit suicide are based on ideas of each individual's autonomy over his or her life.

Contemporary reviews described the game as a " humorous romp through modern life " and praised the graphics and clever wordplay, but noted it was essentially a computerised board game.

This comprehensive collection of American art includes prominent holdings of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, Geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field painting, Minimalism and Contemporary Art.

After this turning point in his life, he drifted from job to job for several years, arriving eventually in Lahore in the mid 1870s, where he began to compose his epic poem, the Musaddas e-Madd o-Jazr e-Islam (" An elegiac poem on the Ebb and Tide of Islam "), at the request of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, under the new pseudonym of Hali (" The Contemporary ").

Contemporary reports state that Giffard was a handsome, happy and genial man who was fond of luxury — as a result of this in later life he grew fat which affected both his health and his temper.

Contemporary alternatives include " HZ ", " life zone ", and " Goldilocks Zone ".

Contemporary Brazilian literature is, on the whole, very much focused on city life and all its aspects: loneliness, violence, political issues and media control.

In the last year of his life, Levy commuted up the Hudson River from New York City to teach a class at the Levy Institute, “ Contemporary Developments in Finance ,” in which he focused on his belief that investing is as much a psychological as it is an economic act.

Contemporary documents about Rennyo's life and his hermitage were thus the first to refer to this place by the name Osaka.

The Warp, based on the real life experiences and adventures of author Neil Oram, is a dizzying trek through the nether reaches of gurudom and tireless post-sixties mind-expansion, directed by Ken Campbell, and opened at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in January 1979.

" Contemporary reviewers, often influenced by nostalgia for the earlier period represented in Bede, enthusiastically praised Eliot's characterizations and realistic representations of rural life.

# Contemporary media including television, film, print, and the Internet, which are responsible for blurring the line between products that are needed ( in order to live a life ) and products for which a need is created by commercial images.

Contemporary scholarship, however, is more likely to more strongly restrict or even forbid abortion, on the grounds that modern technology has permitted us to perceive life in the womb earlier than was previously possible.

" While the song is well recognized today, it was all but ignored by typical Top 40 radio during its chart life, making only the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

Contemporary Mayanism places less emphasis on contacts between the ancient Maya and lost lands than in the work of early writers such as Godfrey Higgins, Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg and Augustus Le Plongeon, alluding instead to possible contacts with extraterrestrial life.

Entrants are asked to interpret ‘ Contemporary life in Australia ’, with an emphasis on Australian ’ s going about their day-to-day lives.

Off-campus study programs include the Washington Journalism Internship at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D. C .; the James C. Quayle Journalism Intern Program ; Hillsdale College Professional Sales Intern Program ; Hillsdale in Seville, Spain at The Center for Cross-Cultural Study ; the Hillsdale / Oxford Scholars Program ; Hillsdale College / Universität des Saarlandes, at Saarbrücken, Germany ; Hillsdale College Intensive Language Summer School in Tours, France ; Hillsdale College Intensive Language & Culture Summer Program in Würzburg, Germany ; Hillsdale College at Regent's College, London ; Hillsdale College at the University of St. Andrews, at St. Andrews, Scotland ; and the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program ( WHIP ), where students reside one semester in Washington, D. C., studying Political Science by working 35 – 40 hours per week in government or private sector positions, and take two classroom courses in either American Politics or Public Policy, and either Contemporary American Foreign Policy or National Security.

In recent decades, the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan has had increasingly close ties with the Tsinghua University on the mainland, and of all universities on Taiwan, the NTHU has arguably one of the strongest cooperations with universities in mainland China in terms of academic research, projects, and with the creation of programs such as the " Center for Contemporary China.

Bell ( 2003 ) presented more evidence of this lacking third stage and described the " Contemporary Adventure Model of a Rites of Passage " as a modern and weaker version of the rites of passage typically used by outdoor adventure programs.

Contemporary perception of public space has now branched and grown into a multitude of non-traditional sites with a variety of programs in mind.

Contemporary qualitative data analyses are sometimes supported by computer programs, termed Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software.

Berklee Valencia campus focuses primarily on graduate programs in the following areas: Contemporary Studio Performance ; Contemporary Writing and Production ; Electronic Production and Design ; Global Entertainment and Music Business ; Symphonic Band Studies ; and Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games.

Most programs require that the recitals include advanced-grade pieces that are drawn from the different eras of music history, such as Baroque-era solo suites ( late 17th century to mid-18th century ); Classical-era ( mid-to late 18th century ) sonata or concerto ; a Romantic-era ( 19th century ) concerto or solo ; and a Contemporary era ( 20th and 21st century ) The specific components of the recital vary between schools.

AJC's programs and departments include the Asia and Pacific Rim Institute, the Belfer Center for American Pluralism, the Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, Contemporary Jewish Life, Government and International Affairs, Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, the Latino and Latin American Institute, Middle East and International Terrorism, National and Legislative Affairs, Project Interchange, Russian Affairs and UN Watch.

Achievements in collegiate a cappella recording are recognized by awards programs ( most notably the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards, awarded by CASA ) and compilation albums, such as the long-running Best of College A Cappella series.

The college has ten Bachelor of Fine Arts majors: Communication Design, Contemporary Animated Arts, General Fine Arts, Illustration, Intermedia, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video and Sound ; and five Master's programs: a mentor-based MFA in Visual Studies, a Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies, an MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research, an MFA in Applied Craft and Design, and an MFA in Collaborative Design.

Annual events and programs include Kids Art in the Park, Arts on Tour, Brown Bag Lecture Series, theatrical productions, the Full Moon Gallery of Fine Art and Contemporary Craft, public art projects and many others.

The Graduate Studies programs offers post-graduate diplomas and masters degrees in the following fields: Contemporary Arabic Studies ; Arabic Islamic History ; Education ; Sociology ; International Studies ; Democracy and Human Rights ; Economics ; Law ; Community and Public Health ; Water and Environmental Engineering ; Water and Environmental Sciences ; Gender, Law and Development ; Business Administration ; Applied statistics ; Scientific Computing ; Urban Planning And Design ; and Medical Laboratory Sciences.

In 2004 Brown became active with the website Foetry. com, a movement started by Alan Cordle that criticized the incestuousness of American MFA literary programs and corruption in literary contests, particularly at the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, University of Iowa fiction and poetry contests and the University of North Texas Vassar Miller Prize contest.

The School at Jacob's Pillow ’ s conservatory-style curriculum includes five programs: Ballet, Cultural Traditions, Contemporary Traditions, Jazz / Musical Theater, and Choreographers ’ Lab.

KPNO airs a format consisting of Christian Contemporary Music, as well as a variety of Christian Talk and Teaching programs including ; Back to the Bible, Focus on the Family, In the Market with Janet Parshall, Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll, Truth for Life with Alistair Begg, Turning Point with David Jeremiah, Break Point with Chuck Colson, and Unshackled !.

The Clear Channel Communications-owned station programs a Hot Adult Contemporary format.

In the summer of 1985, WAOK revamped its programming format-it now aired an Urban Adult Contemporary music format while gospel programs were now heard from 5: 00 a. m. until noon.

As well as playing Adult Contemporary and Christian music, Life FM offers news, sport, music programs and talk programs.

Contemporary Christian theologians have provided explanations for " born from above " being a more accurate translation of the original Greek word transliterated anōthen.

Contemporary systems of categories have been proposed by John G. Bennett ( The Dramatic Universe, 4 vols., 1956-65 ), Wilfrid Sellars ( 1974 ), Reinhardt Grossmann ( 1983, 1992 ), Johansson ( 1989 ), Hoffman and Rosenkrantz ( 1994 ), Roderick Chisholm ( 1996 ), Barry Smith ( ontologist ) ( 2003 ), and Jonathan Lowe ( 2006 ).

Contemporary filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Girish Kasaravalli, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, and Juraj Jakubisko have cited Fellini's influence on their work.

Contemporary practitioners, accordingly, have varied and often conflicting practices.

Biographer Philip Heselton suggested that through the nudist scene Gardner may have also met Dion Byngham ( 1896 – 1990 ), a senior member of the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry who propounded a Contemporary Pagan religion known as Dionysianism.

Contemporary harmonicists Howard Levy, Jason Ricci, Carlos del Junco and the late Chris " Buddha " Michalek have pushed the envelope of the instrument.

Contemporary legal positivists have long abandoned this view, and have criticised its oversimplification, H. L. A. Hart particularly.

Contemporary chroniclers argued that John had fallen deeply in love with Isabella, and John may have been motivated by desire for an apparently beautiful, if rather young, girl.

Present-day translations have " morning star " ( New International Version, New Century Version, New American Standard Bible, Good News Translation, Holman Christian Standard Bible, Contemporary English Version, Common English Bible, Complete Jewish Bible ), " daystar " ( New Jerusalem Bible, English Standard Version, The Message ), " shining one " ( New Life Version ) or " shining star " ( New Living Translation ).

Contemporary paganism has therefore been prone to fakelore, especially in recent years as information and misinformation alike have been spread on the Internet and in print media.

Contemporary artists have been greatly influenced by René Magritte's stimulating examination of the fickleness of images.

Contemporary debates have centered on issues such as secularization, civil religion, and the cohesiveness of religion in the context of globalization and multiculturalism.

Contemporary chroniclers suggested that Henry argued that it would be in Stephen's own best interests to release the Empress and concentrate instead on attacking Robert, and Stephen may have seen Robert, not the Empress, as his main opponent at this point in the conflict.

Contemporary ideas from systems theory have grown with diversified areas, exemplified by the work of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, ecological systems with Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum and Fritjof Capra, organizational theory and management with individuals such as Peter Senge, interdisciplinary study with areas like Human Resource Development from the work of Richard A. Swanson, and insights from educators such as Debora Hammond and Alfonso Montuori.

Contemporary social theorists associated with the Frankfurt School have remained largely critical of Heidegger's works and influence.

According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘ someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country ’.

Contemporary tracts and accounts such as that of Francesco Guicciardini have been found to allude to active same-sex relations – alleging Count Ludovico Rangone and Galeotto Malatesta among his lovers.

" Contemporary directors like Sidney Lumet, a former student, have intentionally used actors such as Al Pacino, a former student skilled in " Method ".

Therefore the genre field and some categories have been renamed as Gospel / Contemporary Christian Music.

Contemporary crayons are purported to have originated in Europe where some of the first cylinder shaped crayons were made with charcoal and oil.

Contemporary VLIWs typically have four to eight main functional units.

Contemporary Greek literature is represented by many writers, poets and novelists: Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, Demetrius Vikelas, while George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Contemporary composers have utilized the unique sound of the marimba more and more in recent years.

Contemporary designs of this style also have a pressure-activated interlock mechanism that prevents the lid from being removed while the cooker is pressurized.