No matter what your religious persuasion, or whether you are religious at all, it's hard not to be captivated by the pervasive Buddhist traditions and age-old rituals when visiting Tibet.
That is the pervasive, somewhat pathological tradition of the New Year's Eve kiss, as seen in no less than 23,002 Lifetime movies.
"Not exactly... but you'd never believe the story that she told!" It is hard to believe the stories of miracles that seem so pervasive in Jewish tradition.
The use of inscriptions for the dating of historical events is most pervasive when the historical tradition itself is "timeless," as in ancient India; the entire Indian chronology comes to be anchored around the Ashokan inscriptions.
It helped to shape the Emersonian world-view, which gave rise to process philosophy and American pragmatism, as well as to a literary tradition so pervasive that Yale's Harold Bloom called the Sage of Concord "the mind of America".
Mr. Jantsannorov is at work on an opera about Zanabazar, the revered 17th-century artist and "god king," which he hopes will promote Buddhist music in opera as a counterbalance to the pervasive influence of Christian traditions.
The links between various theoretical traditions, the pervasive influence of Rameau's harmonic thinking, and the harmonic theories of Koch are just some of the numerous topics given their first full treatment here.
") In the end, you come to feel that the real continuity is so pervasive that it needs no tradition to feed it; people torture other people everywhere for any reason at hand.
It can be troubling to consider just how pervasive and not-new this tradition of feminist storytelling really is; after all, if telling these stories had the power to change the way women are treated, why do we still have so many stories to tell?
