Convention on Biological Diversity in Egypt.
28 November 2018 Nele Marien explains the scale and cost of financial lobbying against biodiversity efforts. Corporate pressure has been strong during the past two weeks of negotiations at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Egypt.
Indonesia
Country in Southeast Asia Coordinates: 5°S 120°E / 5°S 120°E / -5; 120 Indonesia ( IN-də-NEE-zhə, -NEE-zee-ə; Indonesian: [ɪndoˈnesia]), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia [reˈpublik ɪndoˈnesia]),[a] is a country in Southeast Asia, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It is the world's largest island country, with more than seventeen thousand islands,[12] and at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles), the 14th largest by land area and 7th in the combined sea and land area.[13] With over 267 million people, it is the world's 4th most populous country as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island,[15] is home to more than half of the country's population.
TIBETAN BUDDHIST GODS, BODHISATTVAS AND BUDDHAS
Maitreya The pantheon of gods in Tibetan Buddhism is derived mainly from Hinduism, Indian Buddhism and the Bon religion. In many cases characteristics of gods from all three faiths are merged into a single god. A Buddhist god, for example, may have been derived from Hinduism and given characteristics of a Bon religion spirit. Moreover, the gods are intended to show the many sides of enlightenment: a particular god may have a wrathful, vengeful side as well as a peaceful and beneficent side. Himalayan Buddhists recognize several thousand gods and demons, many of which, like their Hindu counterparts, take on many forms. Each village and sect has its own pantheon of gods, spirits and demons.
Java
island of Indonesia Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese: ᮏᮝ) is an island of Indonesia, bordered by the Indian Ocean on the south and the Java Sea on the north. With a population of over 141 million (Java only) or 145 million (including the inhabitants of its surrounding islands), Java has 56.7 percent of the Indonesian population and is the world's most populous island.[1] The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is located on its northwestern coast. Much of Indonesian history took place on Java. It was the centre of powerful Hindu-Buddhist empires, the Islamic sultanates, and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies.
Spiritual health scale 2011: defining and measuring 4 dimension of health. - Abstract
In the midst of physical comforts provided by the unprecedented developments in all spheres of life, the humanity is at cross roads and looking at something beyond these means. Spirituality has now been identified globally as an important aspect for providing answers to many questions related to health and happiness. The World Health Organization is also keen at looking beyond physical, mental and social dimensions of the health, and the member countries are actively exploring the 4(th) Dimension of the health i.e. the spiritual health and its impact on the overall health and happiness of an individual.
Kakawin Bhāratayuddha
First page of Gunning's kakawin Bhāratayuddha (1903) in Javanese characters. The poem was started by Sedah in 1157, and finished by Panuluh. Panuluh also wrote the Kakawin Hariwangsa.[1]:168
The meanings of Baraka (C)
The Quran uses baraka as follows: A natural understanding of ‘baraka’ can be found in 41/10 in which Allah is the one who brings baraka to the earth. This statement is nestled by between the statement that Allah placed mountains on the earth as anchors of stability and the statement that Allah measured for the earth everything in due proportion therefore intuiting to us that baraka comes after stability then gives proportion to the created world. A second occurrence, this time of the word mubarak (something which brings baraka) in 50/9 tells us that the rain from the sky comes with baraka, as it brings about the fertilisation of gardens and harvests. The garden is used in the Quran to symbolise a state of heavenly bliss.
Dharmawangsa
Dharmawangsa (also spelled Dharmavamsa), stylized regnal name Sri Maharaja Isyana Dharmawangsa Teguh Anantawikramottunggadewa of Isyana dynasty was the last raja of the Kingdom of Medang reigned from 990-1016 CE. He also known in his posthumous name Wijayamreta Wardhana which means "powerful in glorious death", which refer to his fight to the death. Reign[edit] He succeeded Sri Makutawangsa Wardhana. Dharmawangsa was the patron of the translator of the Mahabharata text into Old Javanese. Dharmawangsa was either the son or son-in-law of Sri Makutawangsawardhana, preceding King of Medang and grandson of Mpu Sindok.[1]
UNESCO 'deeply regrets' Turkey's conversion of Hagia Sophia into mosque
The UN's cultural agency UNESCO said it deeply regretted Turkey's decision to turn the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul from a museum into a mosque, lamenting there had been no prior dialogue on the status of the former Byzantine cathedral. UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay "deeply regrets the decision of the Turkish authorities, taken without prior dialogue, to modify the status of the Hagia Sophia," the UN agency said in a statement, It added that she had expressed her concern to the Turkish ambassador to the body.
