Promoters of Zen to the West record its ancestry, and recognize that Zen grew out of a combination of Taoism and Indian Mahayana Buddhism.

Their work was principally responsible for the diffusion of the Indian system of numeration in the Middle East and the West.

* West Indian Americans-Caribbean cuisine, Jamaican cuisine

It was only with the return of the English team and the subsequent use of Bodyline against English players in England by the touring West Indian cricket team in 1933 that demonstrated to the country the dangers it posed.

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM ( born 2 May 1969, in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago ) is a former West Indian international cricket player.

When he was 15 years old, he played in his first West Indian under-19 youth tournament and that same year, Lara represented West Indies in Under-19 cricket.

Later that year, his innings of 182 as captain of the West Indies under 23 XI against the touring Indian team further elevated his reputation.

In 2001 Lara was named the Man of the Carlton Series in Australia with an average of 46. 50, the highest average by a West Indian in that series, scoring two half centuries and one century, 116 against Australia.

In 2009, Lara was made an honorary Member of the Order of Australia ( AM ) for services to West Indian and Australian cricket.

** He has the most centuries for a West Indian

11. 0 % were of Irish, 7. 2 % English, 6. 9 % Italian, 5. 5 % West Indian and 5. 3 % German ancestry according to Census 2000.

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

These dialects have roots in 17th-century English and African languages ; unlike most native varieties of English, West Indian dialects often tend to be syllable-timed rather than stress-timed.

The Indian indentured servants that were brought over from India by different European powers, brought this dish, as well as their culture, to the West Indies.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

The Maritimes also have a black population who are mostly descendants of African American loyalists or refugees from the War of 1812, largely concentrated in Nova Scotia but also in various communities throughout southern New Brunswick, Cape Breton ( where the black population is largely of West Indian descent ), and Prince Edward Island.

Other prominent European pop and disco groups were Luv ' from the Netherlands and Boney M, a group of four West Indian singers and dancers masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian.

According to a popular West Indian belief, Dominica is the only New World territory that Columbus would still recognize.

* 1966 – Carl Hooper, former West Indian cricket player and captain

* 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.

The West Indian Wharehouse at Rapenburg ( Amsterdam ), constructed in 1642.

Spain refused to sign the peace treaty, if a West Indian Company would be established.

In 1619, his opponent Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was beheaded, and when two years later the truce expired, the West Indian Company was established

In 1826 Johnston graduated eighth of 41 cadets in his class from West Point with a commission as a brevet second lieutenant in the 2nd U. S. Infantry.

In the East abbots, if in priests ' orders and with the consent of the bishop, were, as we have seen, permitted by the second Nicene council, AD 787, to confer the tonsure and admit to the order of reader ; but gradually abbots, in the West also, advanced higher claims, until we find them in AD 1489 permitted by Innocent IV to confer both the subdiaconate and diaconate.

In 1999, Arizona won 100 games in only its second season to win the NL West title.

Though a losing season, this was a 26-game improvement over 2004, and sufficient for second place in a woefully weak NL West, five games behind the San Diego Padres.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

In his second first-class match he made 92 against a Barbados attack containing Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall, two greats of West Indies teams.

In the second Test at Kingston he scored 213 while in the third Test he scored 153 * in the second innings as West Indies chased down 311 with one wicket left.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

The season ended with a 77 – 67 record, good for second place in the West division and the club's first playoff appearance as the Wild Card winner.

Instead, the Rockies dropped even further, finishing 72 – 90 and in last place in the West as the Diamondbacks won the division in just their second year of existence.

A second reason Soviet missiles were deployed to Cuba was because Khrushchev wanted to bring West Berlin — the American / British / French-controlled democratic zone within Communist East Germany — into the Soviet orbit.

West Indies won a second consecutive World Cup tournament, defeating the hosts, England, by 92 runs in the final.

The second point of transfer was near the Caprivi Strip and the Okavango River, where it was apparently the Yeyi language which borrowed the clicks from a West Kalihari Khoe language, and which in turn passed on a reduced click inventory to the neighboring Mbukushu, Kwangali, Gciriku, Kuhane, and Fwe languages in Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia.

Cão then coasted down along the present Angola ( Portuguese West Africa ), and erected a second pillar, probably marking the termination of this voyage, at Cape Santa Maria ( the Monte Negro of these first visitors ).

The second, began in western Pennsylvania and Virginia ( now West Virginia ), led by Thomas Campbell and his son, Alexander Campbell.

It is a trade language in West Africa and is spoken by millions of people, either as a first or second language.

They next went on to achieve their second best result in the 1990 World Cup by finishing fourth – losing again to West Germany in a semi-final finishing 1 – 1 after extra time, then 3 – 4 in England's first penalty shoot-out.

* " The Stackhouse Filibuster ", episode seventeen of the second season of The West Wing, used the framing device of emails sent by C. J.

2007 was a much better season for Essendon, in which, despite significant wins over Adelaide ( twice ), Fremantle, St Kilda, Sydney ( by one point in Sydney ), the previous year's premiers West Coast ( their second successive win by a solitary point ) and Carlton, they missed the finals for the third year running.

In September 1995, Israel and the PLO signed a second peace agreement, extending the Palestinian Authority to most West Bank towns.

At club level, Banks came up with his second most famous save when spectacularly palming a vicious penalty from his England team-mate Hurst over the crossbar as Stoke defeated West Ham United in the semi final of the 1972 League Cup.

West Ham won the FA Cup in 1964 with Hurst scoring the second equaliser in a tight and exciting 3 – 2 victory over Preston North End at Wembley.

Both terms were used in East Germany with an increasing emphasis on the abbreviated name, especially since East Germany considered West Germans and West Berliners to be foreigners following the promulgation of its second constitution in 1968.