Although each has its own variation, most ancient philosophies incorporate these four elements: examples include the classical Hindu, Buddhist, and Greek elemental traditions.
"Tender Napalm," which was first staged in London last year and is expertly directed here by Paul Takacs, belongs to the modern tradition of elemental battle-of-the-sexes plays, which reaches back to Strindberg and runs through Pinter and Albee.
You have a long tradition here of exploring the elemental in art -- the Light and Space movement, for example.
Alexander Wynne, author of The Origin of Buddhist Meditation, observes that formless meditation and elemental meditation might have originated in the Upanishadic tradition.
The author, an expatriate from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, writes about his homeland and its dying traditions, in tales that marry the elemental themes of Gaelic song (loneliness, sorrow, work, death) with a simple but deceptively modern narrative style.
Fans and drivers protective of the sports' traditions look warily on efforts to tinker with something as elemental as fuel.
Recently, Irigaray's explorations of the meaning of spirit/breath as the elemental force of life have put her in touch with eastern religious traditions such as Hinduism (Irigaray 2002).
Not an angry man but a streetwise cynic, Rickles is an equal-opportunity debunker of all culture, tradition, religion, habit, and social practice, which he mocks as fronts for the elemental drives for sex, money, and power.
It may thus be expected that the elemental compositions of the glass finds from Pergamon reflect the different major glass-making traditions (natron versus plant ash).
"Elemental, elemental," he said.
