What a mournful year it has been for those of us who grew up in or around New York without ESPN or WFAN, and whose primary sports enlightenment came rolled up in the back pockets of our fathers as they returned home from work.
Therefore, during his long and active lifetime, Gotama Buddha himself forbade the making of his image in polytheistic India; yet within a single generation after his passing, human nature and its attachment to forms and images prevailed, creative images arose, and a religion whose primary goal was enlightenment arose around the memory of his teachings, instructions, and personal example.
His subtitle, "Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance," conveys the burden of his thesis: to build is to edify in its primary sense, incorporating elevation as well as enlightenment.
As he sees it, the standard account of the history textbooks — with the Renaissance giving rise to the Scientific Revolution and thus preparing the way for the Enlightenment — fails to identify the primary causal relationship.
A more famous way that this movement is displayed is through one of the primary themes of Dialectic, viz. that "myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology" (p. xviii).
All of which only goes to prove that there are many French men and women who feel their primary attachment is to Islam, not to the Enlightenment values of post-18th Century Europe.
Classical education as a primary engine of modern knowledge, a faith born of the Age of Enlightenment, collapsed long ago.
Its primary importance lies in its justification of Indian drama as a vehicle of religious enlightenment.
While modest Buddhist monk and mystical Hindu sages certainly knew about the health benefits that arise from meditation, their primary purpose for practice has always been to move closer towards the spiritual state of enlightenment.
The primary object of philosophical inquiry in the Golden Garland is the unity of the perceiving subject in enlightenment, a topic that reflects the language and concerns of the Yogācāra-svātantrika-madhyamaka school.
Any enlightenment appreciated".
