Tag: Laughing

Free Download Wang Wei, "Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei"
English | ISBN: 0874515645 | | 244 pages | AZW3 | 267 KB
Wang Wei was one of the most celebrated poets of China’s Tang Dynasty (618-907). An influential painter and practitioner of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, many of his poems contain concise and evocative descriptions of nature whose elegant minimalism offers subtle expression of a transcendence from everyday life. While this purity of poetic expression is what Wang Wei’s reputation is built upon, he lived a courtly life of highs and lows in a tumultuous era, suffering demotions and exile, imprisonment and rehabilitation, all of which are evidenced in his verse. Wang Wei’s poems grapple with the trappings of worldly life and the quest for enlightenment, painting a complex picture of both his psyche and his Chan discipline. Laughing Lost in the Mountains includes translations of poems running the spectrum of Wang Wei’s subjects, as well as an extensive introduction that sheds light on Wang Wei’s craft, spirituality, and historical context.

Free Download Tricycle Magazine, "Buddha Laughing: A Tricycle Book of Cartoons"
English | 1999 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 060980409X | EPUB | 4,9 mb
These eighty-five cartoons provide a hilarious perspective on everything from reincarnation to mindful-or perhaps mindless-ness. Over the centuries, Buddhism has offered the world a clear-eyed, down-to-earth approach to life and death. This irresistible little book of teachings is no exception. It demonstrates that wisdom can-and often should-be taught through humor. Buddha Laughing is a healthy recipe for lightening up, the path to true enlightenment.

Free Download W. S. Penn, "Raising Bean: Essays on Laughing and Living "
English | ISBN: 0814349307 | 2022 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 662 KB + 6 MB
Offered in the oral traditions of the Nez Perce, Native American writer W. S. Penn records the conversations he held with his granddaughter, lovingly referred to as "Bean," as he guided her toward adulthood while confronting society’s interest in possessions, fairness, and status. Drawing on his own family history and Native mythology, Penn charts a way through life where each endeavor is a journey―an opportunity to love, to learn, or to interact―rather than the means to a prize at the end.

Free Download Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions (The CBC Massey Lectures) by Tomson Highway
English | September 27, 2022 | ISBN: 1487011237 | True EPUB | 200 pages | 0.6 MB
Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.

Free Download Juan Felipe Herrera, Karen Barbour, "Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0062444891 | EPUB | pages: 48 | 4.8 mb
From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, one of the most prominent Chicano poets writing today, here are poems like sweet music

Free Download Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy (From the Creator of Laugh-In) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNDX9SKH | 2023 | 8 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: George Schlatter, Jon Macks
Narrator: P.J. Ochlan
In 1967, producer George Schlatter pitched an idea for a quirky new television show: one inspired by the hippie counterculture, which would take the idea of sit-ins, love-ins, and be-ins, and manifest that politicized, sexualized, consciousness-raising energy into pure comedy. Much to the surprise of NBC executives, Laugh-In soon became the #1 show on American TV, and the careers of beloved stars like Lily Tomlin and Goldie Hawn were born. Still Laughing features never-before-told stories from the creation of one of the most groundbreaking shows in television history.

Free Download Giorgio Baruchello, "Laughing Matters: Prolegomena "
English | ISBN: 3110760096 | 2023 | 245 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
The present book addresses the background, rationale, general structure, and particular aims and arguments characterizing our third and last volume about "humor" and "cruelty". A guiding foray is provided into the vast expert literature that can be retrieved in the Western humanities and social sciences on these two terms. Pivotal thinkers and crucial notions are duly identified, highlighted, and examined. Apposite subsidiary references are also included, especially with regard to psychodynamics and clinical psychology, existentialism, feminism, liberalism, Marxism, and representative recent studies in the philosophy of humor and its cognates. The stage is thus set for the exploration and assessment of the

Free Download C.W. Marshall, George Kovacs, "No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy"
English | 2013 | pages: 370 | ASIN: B00G99NDN2 | EPUB | 5,8 mb
No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and methodologies that will appeal to Classics and Theatre scholars while still remaining accessible to students. By including discussions of fragmentary authors alongside Aristophanes, the collection provides a broad understanding of the richness of Athenian comedy. The collection showcases the best of the new scholarship on Old and Middle Comedy, using the most up-to-date texts and tools.