• Geoffrey Samuel (born 22 November 1946) is an emeritus professor of religious studies at Cardiff University. He is known for his ethnographic studies...
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    are separate methods with separate goals. As the British Indologist Geoffrey Samuel notes, while the kāmasāstra literature is about the pursuit of sexual...
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    patronage however, Buddhism survived and thrived in Tibet. According to Geoffrey Samuel this was because "Tantric (Vajrayana) Buddhism came to provide the...
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    body, esoteric anatomy, sidereal body and etheric body. According to Geoffrey Samuel and Jay Johnston, professors of Religious studies known for their studies...
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    postgraduate named Joanne Pearson and two professors, Richard H. Roberts and Geoffrey Samuel. In his study of Wicca, the Pagan studies scholar Ethan Doyle White...
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    ISBN 978-0691140865. Samuel, Geoffrey (2008). The Origins of Yoga and Tantra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-69534-3. Samuel, Geoffrey (2010), The...
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    Buddhism has been a subject of debate. According to the modern scholar Geoffrey Samuel, while Bon is "essentially a variant of Tibetan Buddhism" with many...
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    Samuel, Geoffrey (2010). The Origins of Yoga and Tantra. Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. Samuel, Geoffrey; Johnston...
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    mind in this life, but also as a means to end rebirth. According to Geoffrey Samuel, "the Four Noble Truths [...] describe the knowledge needed to set...
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  • Geoffrey Samuel Scott (31 October 1956 – 17 October 2018) was an English professional footballer who made 176 appearances in the Football League playing...
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  • Geoffrey Beene (born Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr.; August 30, 1924 – September 28, 2004) was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most...
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    singing. In "The Varieties of Ritual Experience" (ed. Jan Weinhold & Geoffrey Samuel) in the series "Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual", Volume...
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    Coningham lacks the necessary expertise on the history of early Buddhism. Geoffrey Samuel notes that several locations of both early Buddhism and Jainism are...
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    been much debated, and sometimes disputed over the following decades. Geoffrey Samuel, writing in 2008, finds all attempts to make "positive assertions"...
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  • based on an understanding of causality and empiricism. According to Geoffrey Samuel, some of these modernists even "suggested that Buddhism was barely...
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    Turnstone Press Limited. 1984. Roberts, Richard H., & Joanne Pearson, Geoffrey Samuel, Nature Religion Today: paganism in the modern world, Edinburgh University...
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  • Paganism in the Modern World. Eds. Joanne Pearson, Richard H. Roberts and Geoffrey Samuel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998: p.89. Whitmore, Ben....
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    pp. 11–12, 294–295. ISBN 978-0-313-32463-5. Connor, Linda; Samuel, Geoffrey; Geoffrey Samuel (2001). Healing powers and modernity traditional medicine...
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    the study and practice of different cycles of texts. According to Geoffrey Samuel, the Sakyapa specialize in the Hevajra Tantra, the Nyingmapa specialize...
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    Heissig, Walther (1980) [1970]. The Religions of Mongolia. Translated by Geoffrey Samuel. London; Henley: Routledge; Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0520038578. Hesse...
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  • The by-election was held on 18 January 2024, following the death of Geoffrey Samuel. The election took place on 5 May 2022. The election took place on...
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  • religious studies scholars Joanne Pearson, Richard H. Roberts and Geoffrey Samuel which was published by Edinburgh University Press in 1998. Containing...
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    Witchcraft and Holy Hermeneutics". In Pearson, Roberts & Samuel (1998), pp. 143–156. Samuel, Geoffrey. "Paganism and Tibetan Buddhism: Contemporary Western...
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  • promote as Tantra. Responding to criticism of modern Western Tantra, Geoffrey Samuel, a historian of Indian and Tibetan Tantra writes: 'Tantra' as a modern...
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    South Asia, and entered the Iron Age around 700 BCE. According to Geoffrey Samuel, following Tim Hopkins, the Central Gangetic Plain was culturally distinct...
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    Archived from the original on 2013-07-19. "Prof Geoffrey Samuel". Archived from the original on 2014-08-13. Samuel 2012, p. 48. Schopen 1997, p. 24. Damien Keown...
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    that they had the same meaning." The scholar of religious studies Geoffrey Samuel wrote that the multiple interpretations "certainly cannot all be right"...
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    and neo-pagan ritual.[citation needed] Robert Goss comments that Geoffrey Samuel, Reginald Ray, and Judith Simmer-Brown have traced the Shambhala lineage...
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  • singing. In "The Varieties of Ritual Experience" (ed. Jan Weinhold & Geoffrey Samuel) in the series "Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual", Volume...
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    Shankara's writings was one of three bodies (physical, subtle, and causal). Geoffrey Samuel notes that theosophical use of these terms by Blavatsky and later authors...
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