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unusual facts about Sheng-yen


Sheng-yen

In Taiwan, he was one of four prominent modern Buddhist masters, along with Masters Hsing Yun, Cheng Yen and Wei Chueh.


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2007 Japanese Grand Prix

The event was afflicted by poor transportation, poor facilities including some reserved seats without a view, lack of organization, and expensive meals that meant a simple lunch-box was sold for 10,000 yen (US$87) at the circuit.

Abenomics

Specific policies include inflation targeting at a 2% annual rate, correction of the excessive yen appreciation, setting negative interest rates, radical quantitative easing, expansion of public investment, buying operations of construction bonds by Bank of Japan (BOJ), and revision of the Bank of Japan Act.

Adeline Yen Mah

The Yen family later moved to Hong Kong when Yen Mah was eleven, and she transferred to Sacred Heart School and Orphanage (Sacred Heart Canossian College).

Anuta

Ethnobotanist Douglas Yen, along with archaeologists Patrick Kirch and Paul Rosendahl, spent about two months there in 1971, and anthropologist Richard Feinberg lived on Anuta for almost a year in 1972-73.

ASAHI Net

;:ASAHI Net subscribers have the option of donating 100 yen to the effort to end world hunger through the World Food Programme organization as part of the United Nations.

Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of New York

The ensemble performs on "silk and bamboo" (sizhu) instruments—a classical instrumental grouping dating from the Qing Dynasty (1636-1911) that includes various dizi (bamboo flutes), sheng (mouth organ), pipa (lute), zhongruan (alto lute), guzheng (zither), huqin (fiddles), and yangqin (hammered dulcimer).

Banknotes of the Japanese yen

The 2000 yen note was first issued on July 19, 2000 to commemorate the 26th G8 summit in Okinawa and the 2000 millennium year as well.

Bright Sheng

In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by President Bill Clinton.

Censorship in Japan

When he appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Japan on arguments that the manga was not as indecent and explicit as much material on the Internet and that Article 175 violated the Japanese Constitution's protection of freedom of expression, the Court upheld the ruling and the fine was tripled to 1.5 million yen.

Chang Chun-Yen

2009: Exclusive interview by New Scientist, titled "Gene for memory and IQ gives students low grades"

Chen Sheng

Chen Sheng, setting his capital at Chen County (陳縣; in present-day Huaiyang, Henan), then commissioned various generals to advance in all directions to conquer Qin territory.

Cold-Food Powder

Based upon numerous hanshisan recipes, Wagner's (1973:111-113) "Das Rezept des Ho Yen" lists 13 ingredients: First, 2.5 liang (兩 "tael") of six ingredients: zhongru (鐘乳 "stalactite"), baishiying (白石英 "milky quartz"), haige (海蛤 "oyster shell"), zishiying (紫石英 "amethyst"), fangfeng (防風 "Saposhnikovia divaricata"), and gualou (栝樓 "Trichosanthes kirilowii fruit").

Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus

The Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus (fondly called "Sagrado", Abbreviation: CSCJ; Mandarin Chinese: 圣心学院; Pinyin: Shèng Xīn Xué Yuàn) is a private, Catholic, co-educational institution of learning owned and administered by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul located at General Hughes St. Iloilo City, Philippines.

DDRC

Dharma Drum Retreat Center, a retreat center in New York founded by Ch'an Master Sheng-yen

Dharma Drum Retreat Center

Its faculty includes resident teachers such as the abbot, Guo Xing, and a native New Yorker monk, Chang Wen; monastic Dharma heirs such as Guo Ru and Chi Chern; and lay Dharma heirs, mostly Sheng-yen's western disciples, including John Crook, Simon Child, Zarko Andricevic, and Gilbert Gutierrez.

Edward Castronova

It claims, for example, that Norrath has a GNP per capita somewhere between that of Russia and Bulgaria, higher than that of China and India, and that a unit of EverQuest currency is worth more than the Yen or Lira.

Gayathrie

Her debut film, N. Krishna's Yen Ippadi Mayakkinai remains unreleased, though she made a breakthrough after featuring in the cult comedy Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom.

Guan Sheng

Guan Sheng confronts Shan Tinggui outside Lingzhou (凌州; present-day Ling County, Shandong), where the two engage in man-to-man combat.

When the Liangshan outlaws attack Daming Prefecture (in present-day Handan, Hebei) to rescue Lu Junyi and Shi Xiu, Cai Jing recommends Guan Sheng to lead the imperial army to attack the outlaws.

Gust Co. Ltd.

On 7 December 2011 the financial news source Nikkei reported that Tecmo Koei had bought all shares of the company from the stakeholders for 2.2 billion yen with the intention to make social games of Gust's Atelier console role-playing game franchise.

Huang Sheng Shyan

At the age of 60 Huang Sheng Shyan again demonstrated his abilities in taijiquan by defeating Liao Kuang-Cheng, the Asian champion wrestler 26 throws to 0 in a fund raising event in Kuching Malaysia.

Humanistic Buddhism

This was to be carried out by a younger generation: Hsing Yun, Sheng-yen, Wei Chueh and Cheng Yen.

Ishibutai Kofun

Bicycle rentals are also available at numerous points around the station, and cost approximately 1000 yen a day.

Jay Zhong

Renowned musicians who have openly acknowledged Zhong's talents include pianist Constance Keene, Robert Koenig, Yuan Sheng, violist Hong Mei Xiao, violinist Daniel Phillips, Pierre Amoyal, Elmar Oliveira, Nathan Milstein (as mentioned above) among others.

Jeff Sheng

Sheng attended Harvard University and studied under the mentorship of British photographer and Harvard professor Chris Killip in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department.

Jimwat

Other songs he has worked on are Mpaka Che with Pilipili, Tunakatika (Sheng for We're Dancing) with Wambo-E and Chakula Kinywaji (Kiswahili for Food Drink) with Jua Cali, which was featured in his album Ngeli ya Genge.

JNR dismissal lawsuit

On December 5, 2006, at the Tokyo District Court, more than 500 Kokuro members, the union itself, and relatives of workers who died since the privatization planned to launch a 30 million yen damages lawsuit over the refusal to rehire the workers, making a total of 540 plaintiffs suing the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency.

Karakuri Circus

The story starts when Masaru's father dies and leaves 18 billion yen of inheritance solely to him.

Kim Ho-shang

Tibetan King Khri srong lde btsan (742–797) invited the Ch’an master Mo-ho-yen (whose name consists of the same Chinese characters used to transliterate "Mahayana") to transmit the Dharma at Samye Monastery.

Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy

A Kyoto laureate is awarded a gold medal, a diploma, and a prize money of 50 million yen (US$530,000 or €413,000 as of March 2013), making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world.

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

In the film, Donnie Yen's character Chen Zhen disguises himself as a masked vigilante (based on the Green Hornet's sidekick Kato) to stop the Japanese from assassinating people.

Ma Shaowu

In 1937, during the Xinjiang War (1937), Ma Shaowu was accused by the Soviet puppet Sheng Shicai of being part of a "Fascist-Trotskyite" network, including Khoja Niyas Hajji, Ma Hushan, along with other totally ridiculous claims, which Sheng Shicai used as an excuse to conduct his own purge in Xinjiang along with Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

Master Lu

Lu Sheng-yen (born 1945), commonly referred to by followers as Grand Master Lu (師尊) is the founder and spiritual leader of the True Buddha School, a new Buddhist sect with teachings taken from Sutrayana and Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhism), as well as Taoism

National Hsin-Feng Senior High School

On April 28, 2008, Hsin-Feng alumnus Lin Chia-sheng exposed in his blog the school's decision of stopping the football team.

Pai Ping-ping

In 1997 Pai Hsiao-yen, then 16 years old, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered.

Penn effect

New York for one dollar as in Tokyo for 360 Yen, the pegged nominal exchange rate at the time.

Phạm Thị Yến

Phạm Thị Yến (born October 20, 1985) is a member of the Vietnam women's national volleyball team.

Samurai bond

A samurai bond is a yen-denominated bond issued in Tokyo by non-Japanese companies, and is subject to Japanese regulations.

Sangeetha Rajeshwaran

Songs produced under their combination include "Yen Enakku Mayakkam" (Naan Avanillai), "Dailamo" (Dishyum), "Karikalan" (Vettaikaaran), "Mayam Seidhayo" (Velayudham) and "Ichu Ichu" (Vedi).

Sheng

Provinces of China, administrative divisions called shěng in Mandarin

Tartary

According to Sheng-Wu-Chi's Ming dynasty chronicle ("Our dynasty is informed by military realizations"), in this land the Tungus Weji, Warka and Kurka tribes were established.

The Story of the Western Wing

It was a released as a silent film Romance of the Western Chamber (1927 film) in China in 1927, directed by Li Minwei and Yao Hou, and in 2005, the TVB series Lost in the Chamber of Love made a twist in the tale and had Hong Niang, played by Myolie Wu, falling in love with Zhang Sheng, played by Ron Ng, while Cui Yingying, played by Michelle Ye, would marry Emperor Dezong of Tang, played by Kenneth Ma.

Turkmen alphabet

When it was first reintroduced it was supposed to contain some rather unusual letters, such as the pound (£), dollar ($), yen (¥), and cent signs (¢), but these were later replaced by more orthodox letter symbols.

Wu Guang

After Chen Sheng set up his capital at Chen County (陳縣; in present-day Huaiyang, Henan), he appointed Wu Guang as acting-'King of Chu' and ordered Wu to head west toward Qin proper.

Xiao Tao Sheng

The publications about his work namely Collection of Sketches by Xiao Tao Sheng and Collection of Oil Paintings by Xiao Tao Sheng had been included in the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress, New York's Columbia University Library and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Zenkaren

In 1996, Zenkaren constructed the 2 billion yen Heartpia Kitsuregawa in Sakura, Tochigi Prefecture, a hot spring (spa) hotel with a vocational rehabilitation facility.


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