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Baptismal grace and the indwelling of the holy spirit- the foundation of the christian life according to the teaching of mark the monk

January 2015
Studia Monastica 57(2):289-304

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Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

For the Orthodox tradition the whole act of salvation appears like a revelation and activation of this treasure hidden in the depths of our hearts, like a perpetual updating of the death and resurrection with Christ, Whom we have clothed ourselves with at the Baptism. The patristic theology has always admitted to the connection between the Holy Spirit and the man's freedom. The human being is totally involved in its restoration; it eventually finds its place in the new Creation restored in Christ. The gift of the Holy Spirit given at Christmation is undetachable from the baptismal gift, and life in Christ proves to be a life in the Spirit. These are not two distinct forms of spirituahty, but complementary aspects of the path to the eschato-logical deification. © 2015 Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat. All rights reserved.

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April 2011 · Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

The paper proposes a universal noise removing filter capable of removing a mix of salt and pepper, random and Gaussian noise. In addition, the filter can also remove degradations like scratches, streaks, grids etc. that may corrupt images in real time. The algorithm exploits the fact that noise is a violation of spatial coherence of image intensities. In the detection phase, the corrupted and ... [Show full abstract] uncorrupted pixels are identified by computing the successive difference of the sorted pixels in the detection window. The correction phase uses the adaptive median filter that is iterated through the image until all the noise pixels are restored. The iteration with the window dimension not exceeding 5 x 5 ensures better preservation of image details. For an image that is corrupted with Salt and Pepper noise of density 60%, Random noise of density 20% and Gaussian noise of Standard Deviation 20, the image restored by this filter has a PSNR as high as 22 dB. The best feature of the proposed Successive Difference Detection Based Adaptive Iterative Median Filter (SDD-AIMF) is the graceful degradation in performance as the noise density increases, which is not the case with popular algorithms. The quantitative and qualitative results clearly prove that the proposed algorithm has better image restoration capabilities than many other popular techniques in literature.

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Jichihan and the Restoration and Innovation of Buddhist Practice

May 1999 · Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

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The various developments in doctrinal thought and practice during the Insei and Kamakura periods remain one of the most intensively researched fields in the study of Japanese Buddhism. Two of these developments concern the attempts to restore the observance of traditional Buddhist ethics, and the problem of how Pure Land tenets could be inserted into the esoteric teaching. A pivotal role in both ... [Show full abstract] developments has been attributed to the late-Heian monk Jichihan, who was lauded by the renowned Kegon scholarmonk Gyōnen as the restorer of the traditional precepts and patriarch of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. At first glance, available sources such as Jichihan's biographies hardly seem to justify these praises. Several newly discovered texts and a more extensive use of various historical sources, however, should make it possible to provide us with a much more accurate and complete picture of Jichihan's contribution to the restoration and innovation of Buddhist practice.