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Miaoshan and marriage
According to the story, after the king asked his daughter Miaoshan to marry the wealthy man, she told him that she would obey his command, so long as the marriage eased three misfortunes.

Miaoshan and should
Miaoshan, realising the fate that the executioner would meet at her father's hand should she fail to let herself die, forgave the executioner for attempting to kill her.

Miaoshan and ease
When her father asked who could ease all the above, Miaoshan pointed out that a doctor was able to do all of these.

Miaoshan and was
When Chiang penned the work, he believed that the Guanyin we know today was actually a princess called Miaoshan ( 妙善 ), who had a religious following on Fragrant Mountain.
Another tale says that Miaoshan never died, but was in fact transported by a supernatural tiger, believed to be the Deity of the Place, to Fragrant Mountain.

Miaoshan and people
Given that bodhisattvas are known to incarnate at will as living people according to the sutras, the princess Miaoshan is generally viewed as an incarnation of Avalokitesvara.

Miaoshan and they
He tried to shoot Miaoshan down with arrows but they all veered off.

Miaoshan and .
The monks forced Miaoshan to work all day and all night, while others slept, in order to finish her work.
Miaoshan put out the fire with her bare hands and suffered no burns.
A variant of the legend says that Miaoshan allowed herself to die at the hand of the executioner.
The legend of Miaoshan usually ends with Miaozhuangyan, Miaoshan's father, falling ill with jaundice.
When asked, Miaoshan willingly offered up her eyes and arms.
The story concludes with Miaoshan being transformed into the Thousand Armed Guanyin, and the king, queen and her two sisters building a temple on the mountain for her.

explained and first
An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.
The doctor agreed, but explained that it would be necessary first to check Fred's blood to ascertain whether or not it was of the same type as Papa's.
* baio-warioz: the first component is most plausibly explained as a Germanic version of Boii ; the second part is a common formational morpheme of Germanic tribal names, meaning ' dwellers ', as in Anglo-Saxon-ware ); this combination " Boii-dwellers " may have meant " those who dwell where the Boii formerly dwelt ".
The first theoretical description of metals was given by Paul Drude in 1900 with the Drude model, which explained electrical and thermal properties by describing a metal as an ideal gas of then-newly discovered electrons.
By simply denying that an efficient first cause is problematic, being easily explained as the creative action of an omnipotent God, medieval theologians re-purposed and enhanced Aristotle's argument, as if the intention had been to prove God's existence.
George Hayward Joyce, SJ, explained that "... where the light of the candle is dependent on the candle's continued existence, not only does a candle produce light in a room in the first instance, but its continued presence is necessary if the illumination is to continue.
When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.
* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.
) When Thomas Young first demonstrated this phenomenon, it indicated that light consists of waves, as the distribution of brightness can be explained by the alternately additive and subtractive interference of wavefronts.
The field-effect transistor was first patented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925 and by Oskar Heil in 1934, but practical semi-conducting devices ( the JFET ) were only developed much later after the transistor effect was observed and explained by the team of William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947.
As his first wife, actress and dancer Betsy Blair explained: " A sailor suit or his white socks and loafers, or the T-shirts on his muscular torso, gave everyone the feeling that he was a regular guy, and perhaps they too could express love and joy by dancing in the street or stomping through puddles ... he democratized the dance in movies.
Indeed, amongst many ancient writers, Moses himself was seen as an Egyptian rather than a Jew, and two manuscripts likely dating to the 4th century, both of which purport to be the legendary eighth Book of Moses ( the first five being the initial books in the Biblical Old Testament ), present him as a polytheist who explained how to conjure gods and subdue demons.
De Arte Gymnastica also explained the principles of physical therapy and is considered the first book on sports medicine.
Albert Einstein first explained the wave – particle duality of light in 1905.
" Behe specifically explained that the " current definition puts the focus on removing a part from an already functioning system ", but the " difficult task facing Darwinian evolution, however, would not be to remove parts from sophisticated pre-existing systems ; it would be to bring together components to make a new system in the first place ".
Tony West, his lawyer, explained it as follows :" One of the first things he told Army interrogators when they questioned him on December 3 of last year was that after 9 / 11 happened, he wanted to leave the front lines but couldn't for fear of his life.
When Murgatroyd explained he was a kluge maker, the admiral asked him what a kluge wasthe first person ever to do so.
Morita's methods lead his ' students ' through experiments, and in each assignment, the lesson is not explained by a master, but learned first hand, through the doing or ' taiken ', that knowledge gained by direct experience.
This last step is best explained first in a certain limit.
In the chapter nine of the first part of the Cosmographiae Introductio, written by Mat ( t ) hias Ringmann ( died in Sélestat in 1511 at the age of 29 ), it is explained why the name America was proposed for the then New World, or the Fourth Part of the World:
Henri Bergson, with his L ' évolution créatrice ( 1907 ), was one of the first to propose evolution is ' creative ' and cannot necessarily be explained solely by Darwinian natural selection.
The first two, unlike scattered disc objects, have perihelia outside the gravitational reach of Neptune, and thus their orbits cannot be explained by perturbations from the gas giant planets.
At the same time we adopt the principle: not to employ any of the other expression of the discipline under consideration, unless its meaning has first been determined with the help of primitive terms and of such expressions of the discipline whose meanings have been explained previously.
Mr Bingley is soon well received, while his friend Mr Darcy makes a less favorable first impression by appearing proud and condescending at a ball that they attend ( this is partly explained in that he detests dancing and is not much for light conversation ).

explained and misfortune
The esteem in which Mar Samuel was held appears from the fact that no one thought of attributing his misfortune to any sin committed by him ; it was explained rather as being in consequence of some offense committed in Babylon by R. Ḥananya, the nephew of R. Joshua ( Yer.

explained and marriage
The literal meaning is explained in a 16th-century passage quoted by Du Cange as, " a marriage by which the wife and the children that may be born are entitled to no share in the husband's possessions beyond the ' morning-gift '".
Pope Pius IV explained to one of his cardinals: the greater part of the nobility of that island take ill the marriage which the said queen designs to enter with the Lord Robert Dudley ... they fear that if he becomes king, he will want to avenge the death of his father, and extirpate the nobility of that kingdom.
" Ours was a love story in spite of the marriage ," Caven explained in an interview, adding about her former husband's sexuality: " Rainer was a homosexual who also needed a woman.
As he explained to church members a year later, the choice was between, on the one hand, continuing to practice plural marriage and thereby losing the temples, " stopping all the ordinances therein ," and, on the other, ceasing plural marriage in order to continue performing the essential ordinances for the living and the dead.
Chad Griffin, a political adviser to Hollywood executives and same-sex marriage supporter explained the intent of the campaign by saying, " Any individual who has held homophobic views and who has gone public by writing a check, you can expect to be publicly judged.
" Zhao Yun explained later why he did not agree to the marriage, " Zhao Fan was forced to succumb, his intentions are not yet clear.
The 30-year-old King explained to Holmes that he intended to marry Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the King of Scandinavia ; the marriage would be threatened if his prior relationship with Adler should come to light.
Queen Elizabeth's anger at Bishop Fletcher's second marriage, to a beautiful young woman, becomes more understandable after taking into account her loose character explained in Davies ' writings.
Dorman-Smith then went to see her and explained that their living together without marriage would be disastrous for Browning's career.
' The whole thing has to be a kind of partnership — a marriage between writer and performer ,' he explained, ' If there is no marriage — well you know what the brainchild has to be '.
If the power of the love potion is irresistible, how can Tristan's marriage to Isolde of the White Hands be explained?
While on a sojourn in the neighbourhood of village Sankara in Singhbhum, he found suitable companion, presented her parents with jewels and explained to her his idea of marriage.
The universal call to holiness is explained as more fundamental than the vocational discernment to particular ways of life such as priesthood, marriage, or virginity.
One discussion of sampling bias is by Philip Zimbardo, who explained that women in Hite's study were given a survey about marriage satisfaction, where 98 % reported dissatisfaction, and 75 % reported having had extra-marital affairs, but where only 4 % of women given the survey responded.
" Sex is for after marriage ," she explained.
As the wife and ex-wife of two unfaithful men, she explained her marriage philosophy to the Times in 1987: " I can never understand the wives who really mind, the wives who set such store by fidelity.
The way Louis XIV explained this, Maria Theresa, daughter of the first marriage of Philip IV, should inherit the Spanish Netherlands because Philip's son, Charles II was from Philip's second marriage.
The five non-negotiable issues explained and discussed were abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, same-sex marriage and human cloning.
In the face of tittle-tattle that had reached even France, Lady Leicester — she continued to be styled thus — explained her choice with being a defenceless widow ; like her marriage to Leicester, the union proved to be a " genuinely happy " one.
Writing from a position of deep religiosity ( that he had explained in his Confession in 1882 ), he points out that not Christ, but the Church ( which he despises ) instituted marriage.
Jones said he had only recently learned of Haggard's true identity, and explained his reasons for coming forward by saying, " It made me angry that here ’ s someone preaching against gay marriage and going behind the scenes having gay sex.

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