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Editorial Kairos Felicidad: Prácticas Esenciales de Mindfulness
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£15.64
Editorial Kairos Las Palabras de Mi Maestro Perfecto
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£26.11
Editorial Kairos Acción Y Meditación: Cambiarse a Sí Mismo Para
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£16.35
Editorial Kairos Tres Pasos Para El Despertar: La Práctica del
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£14.96
Editorial Kairos Siéntate Como Un Buda: Guía de Bolsillo Para
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£11.65
Editorial Kairos Shobogenzo
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£22.97
Editorial Kairos La Vaca Que Lloraba: Y Otros Cuentos Budistas
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£16.51
Editorial Kairos El Cuarto Giro: Evolucionando Hacia Un Budismo
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£14.10
Editorial Kairos Un Nuevo Sendero Budista
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£15.49
Editorial Kairos Therigatha: Poemas Budistas de Mujeres Sabias
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£16.17
Editorial Kairos Rescate Emocional: Cómo Trabajar Con Tus
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£17.95
Editorial Kairos Después del Budismo: Repensar El Dharma Para Un
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£19.26
Editorial Kairos Las Tres Joyas: El Buda, Su Enseñanza Y La
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£18.38
Editorial Kairos En Palabras del Buddha: Una Antología de
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£29.95
Editorial Kairos Las Cuatro Nobles Verdades: Una Guía Para La Vida
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£19.09
Editorial Kairos El Futuro Es Libre: Buen Karma, Mal Karma Y Más
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£16.35
Editorial Kairos Un Buda En La Oficina: El Antiguo Arte del
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£14.79
NIAS Press Monks and Magic: Revisiting a Classic Study of Religious Ceremonies in Thailand
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1975, B.J. Terwiel's Monks and Magic remains a widely cited text. This is an absorbing study of Buddhism as practised at that time in a community in rural Central Thailand. It describes how esoteric spells and magical diagrams were the main interest of children and adolescents but full ritual knowledge was obtained in adulthood and tempered by life experiences. As death approaches, the Buddhist world-view stimulates merit-making. This fourth edition of the work is a major revision that updates the original text, adds new material and offers a contemporary perspective on the original study.Trade Review'This book deserves a welcome from both sides of academic life, teaching and research. Teachers of subjects dealing with Thai language and culture will welcome a clear account of the religious preoccupations - of country people in the central region. The author has come to treat what is normal and respectable there - The hope is thereby to emphasize the main thesis, viz. that there is such a thing as 'animistic Buddhism' and that it is common in rural areas.' - P.J. Bee, "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements A Note on Transliteration 1. Two Orientations in the Practice of Buddhism 2. The Setting and the Fieldwork 3. Children and Religion 4. Adolescents, Amulets and Tattooing 5. The First Period in the Sangha 6. Leaving the Order, Courtship and Marriage 7. Building a House 8. The Precepts and Ritual 9. The Pursuit of Beneficial Karma 10. Old Age, Death, and the Hereafter 11. Conclusions Postscript Glossary of Thai, Pali and Sanskrit Words Bibliography Index
£23.76
NIAS Press Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and Beyond in
Book SynopsisLong regarded as a peripheral state in mainland Southeast Asia, Laos has attracted far less scholarly attention than richer and more powerful neighbours like Thailand and Vietnam. This has meant, however, that in Lao studies there is a greater potential for individual scholars to make significant contributions to their field. One such scholar is Australia's Martin Stuart-Fox, in honour of whom this festschrift has been produced with contributions from colleagues, former doctoral students and friends. The volume is more than a hagiography, however. Its chapters on Laos all make significant contributions to Lao studies. These range from the writing of Lao prehistory in Laos, to early Lao-Thai relations, from French colonial archaeology to medical practices and gun-boat diplomacy, from the `invention' of Laos as a modern state to its revolutionary transformation and present politics. Though the main focus is on the history, politics and national identity of Laos, essays also point `beyond' Laos, both geographically and metaphorically. In the first instance, the volume provides a welcome comparative perspective, from precolonial relations between Southeast Asian polities and European courts to colonial policies within French Indochina, to the structure of communist power in Vietnam. Three concluding essays point beyond Laos in a metaphorical sense in directions indicated by Professor Stuart-Fox's wider intellectual interests - to cultural legitimation and identity, to Buddhism and Buddhist meditation, and to how the principles of Darwinian evolution apply to historical change. Engaging Asia is thus a volume that will stimulate and satisfy, while at the same time honouring a scholar whose unusual career took him from marine biologist to war correspondent to respected scholar of Southeast Asian politics and history.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Desley Goldston) • Contributors • 1. Martin Stuart-Fox: Evolution of a Worldview (Jessica Harriden) • 2. On Writing Volume One of The History of Laos (Souneth Phothisane) • 3. The Half Millennium Quandary: Establishing the Ayutthaya–Lan Xang Frontier 1357–1827 (Pheuiphanh and Mayoury Ngaosrivathana) • 4. The La Grandière, 1894–1910: A French Naval Presence on the Upper Mekong (Kennon Breazeale) • 5. The Birth of French Research into the Prehistory of Laos (Lia Genovese) • 6. Nurse Khamphanh and His Dead Horse: The Practice of Biomedical Science in Early Twentieth Century Laos (Kathryn Sweet) • 7. The Invention of French Laos (Geoffrey Gunn) • 8. Laos in the 60s (Tim Page) • 9. The Lao Long of Cambodia: Ethnic Lao in the Cambodian Revolutions (Martin Rathie) • 10. Marxist Leninist Ideology Drove the Lao Revolution (Desley Goldston) • 11. Mobilizing Hearts and Minds: Reconciliation Politics in Laos (Soulatha Sayalath) • 12. Photographing Laos (Steve Northup) • 13. The Ethno-Religious Identity of the Tai People in Sipsong Panna and Its Resurgence in Recent Manuscripts (Volker Grabowsky) • 14. An Embassy from Banten at the Court of Charles II (Sarah Tiffin) • 15. Tonkinese Migrant Labour in Cambodia: A Coolie History (Margaret Slocomb) • 16. Decentralization in Vietnam: Resolving Central–Provincial Relations (Timothy McGrath) • 17. What is the First jhāna? The Central Question in Buddhist Meditation Theory (Roderick S. Bucknell) • 18. Biological and Cultural Evolution: A Proper Analogy (Juan Ramón Álvarez) • Afterword (Martin Stuart-Fox ) • Publications of Martin Stuart-Fox • Index
£90.00
NIAS Press Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State,
Book SynopsisThis remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as their farmer neighbors - even while handling new geopolitical challenges. The focus is mainly on marginal people and their navigation between competing forces over the decades of massive change since their incorporation into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1975. The sea, however, plays a major role in this study as does the location: a once-peripheral area now at the center of a global struggle for sovereignty, influence and control in the South China Sea. The coastal fishing communities at the heart of this study are peripheral not so much because of geographical remoteness as their presumed social 'backwardness'; they only partially fit into the social imaginary of Vietnam's territory and nation. The state thus tries to incorporate them through various cultural agendas while religious reformers seek to purify their religious practices. Yet, recently, these communities have also come to be seen as guardians of an ancient fishing culture, important in Vietnam's resistance to Chinese claims over the South China Sea. The fishers have responded to their situation with a blend of conformity, co-option and subtle indiscipline. A complex, triadic relationship is at play here. Within it are various shifting binaries - e.g. secular/religious, fishers/farmers, local ritual/Buddhist doctrine, etc. - and different protagonists (state officials, religious figures, fishermen and -women) who construct, enact, and deconstruct these relations in shifting alliances and changing contexts. Fishers, Monks and Cadres is a significant new work. Its vivid portrait of local beliefs and practices makes a powerful argument for looking beyond monolithic religious traditions. Its triadic analysis and subtle use of binaries offer startlingly fresh ways to view Vietnamese society and local political power. The book demonstrates Vietnam is more than urban and agrarian society in the Red River Basin and Mekong Delta. Finally, the author builds on intensive, long-term research to portray a region at the forefront of geopolitical struggle, offering insights that will be fascinating and revealing to a much broader readership.
£64.00
NIAS Press Dieties and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in
Book SynopsisIn central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar’s largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married to a possessing female spirit; he believes she will offer more support for his gay lifestyle than the path of LGBTQ activism. The only son of a Chinese trading family in Bangkok finds acceptance for his homosexuality and crossdressing when he becomes the medium for a revered female Chinese deity. And in northern Thailand, female mediums smoke, drink, flaunt butch masculine poses and flirt with female followers when they are ritually possessed by male warrior deities. Across the Buddhist societies of mainland Southeast Asia, local queer cultures are at the center of a recent proliferation of professional spirit mediumship. Drawing on detailed ethnographies and extensive comparative research, Deities and Divas captures this variety and ferment. The first book to trace commonalities between queer and religious cultures in Southeast Asia and the West, it reveals how modern gay, trans and spirit medium communities all emerge from a shared formative matrix of capitalism and new media. With insights and analysis that transcend the modern opposition of religion vs secularity, it provides fascinating new perspectives in transnational cultural, religious and queer studies.
£77.00
NIAS Press Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia:
Book SynopsisIn dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are witnessing an upsurge of spirit possession cults and diverse forms of magical ritual. This is found in many social strata, including the urban poor, rising middle classes and elite groups, and across the different political systems of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This volume reveals both the central historical place of spirit possession rituals in the Buddhist cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and their important contemporary roles to enhance prosperity and protection. This book examines the increasing prominence of spirit mediumship and divination across the region by exploring the interplay of neoliberal capitalism, visual media, the network cultures of the Internet, and the politics of cultural heritage and identity. It advances beyond critiques of the “secularization” and “disenchantment” theses to explore the processes of modernity that are actively producing magical worldviews and stimulating the rise of spirit cults. As such, it not only challenges the assumptions of modernization theory but demonstrates that the cults in question are novel ritual forms that emerge out of inherently modern conditions.
£77.00
NIAS Press Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia:
Book SynopsisIn dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are witnessing an upsurge of spirit possession cults and diverse forms of magical ritual. This is found in many social strata, including the urban poor, rising middle classes and elite groups, and across the different political systems of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This volume reveals both the central historical place of spirit possession rituals in the Buddhist cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and their important contemporary roles to enhance prosperity and protection. This book examines the increasing prominence of spirit mediumship and divination across the region by exploring the interplay of neoliberal capitalism, visual media, the network cultures of the Internet, and the politics of cultural heritage and identity. It advances beyond critiques of the “secularization” and “disenchantment” theses to explore the processes of modernity that are actively producing magical worldviews and stimulating the rise of spirit cults. As such, it not only challenges the assumptions of modernization theory but demonstrates that the cults in question are novel ritual forms that emerge out of inherently modern conditions.
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Buddhist Translation Practices in Medieval China:
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Peeters Publishers Bouddhisme Et Lettres Dans La Chine Medievale
Book SynopsisEntre le IIIe et le VIIe siecles, la Chine, morcelee en plusieurs royaumes dont certains furent au mains des "barbares", construit son identite face notamment a la penetration du bouddhisme. Ce recueil presente certaines incidences du bouddhisme en Chine sur la pensee, la societe et la culture.Sur le plan doctrinal, le bouddhisme a certainement influence des penseurs plus tot qu'on ne l'imagine, comme Wang Bi par exemple, et certains themes firent l'objet de debats et d'interets certains, tel celui de la non dualite, etudie ici a travers le commentaire de Jizang du Soutra de Vimalakirti.Les rapports entre les moines et les lettres sont evoquees a partir de la presentation des joutes poetiques qui ont pu se disputer dans les monasteres a l'occasion de fetes bouddhiques du baguanzhai ou encore de l'importance du vegetarisme et de sa diffusion. Les rapports avec l'Etat du clerge et les moyens que ce dernier employa pour asseoir son autorite sont egalement abordes notamment par l'intermediaire d'une etude sur le culte des reliques du Bouddha et celle d'un texte sans doute apocryphe, le Zui miaosheng ding jing qui vante les merites de la meditation-concentration (chanding), qui a exerce une profonde influence sur les grand maitres bouddhistes chinois.L'analyse de la personalite des defenseurs du bouddhisme, a partir des auteurs d'un recueil apologetique de cette doctrine, le Hongming ji, fait ressortir le role predominant des laics et des lettres dans cette apologie. Certains activement participe des controverses et debats entre representants des trois courants de pensee (bouddhisme, taoisme, confucianisme), comme Dao'an, auteur du "Erjiao lun", usant de son savoir de lettre pour persuader et convaincre l'empereur et la cour de la valeur du bouddhisme.
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Peeters Publishers Le Neant Evide: Ontologie et Politique Chez Keiji
Book SynopsisThe author studies the thought of the Japanese philosopher Nishitani. He examines the contradictory relationship existing between his political engagement in favour of ultra-nationalism and his religious ontology based on buddhist and christian values.
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Peeters Publishers Acte Retributif, Renaissance Et Transmigration
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage se propose, a l'aide de textes du bouddhisme qui s'echelonnent de ses origines jusqu'aux premiers siecles de notre ere, d'illustrer les trois dogmes qui sont partie integrante de la pensee indienne en general, et du bouddhisme en particulier: l'acte retributif (karman), les renaissances (jati) et la ronde universelle et eternelle de celles-ci (sansara ou "transmigration").La premiere partie s'interesse au bouddhisme doctrinal. Sans taire les difficultes, voire les contradictions que ces dogmes offrent pour les esprits occidentaux, notamment parce que le Buddha soutient simultanement la sanction morale des actes et l'inexistence d'une ame substantielle et personnelle, on veut montrer l'omnipresence et la continuite des ces croyances dans les enseignements du fondateur lui-meme, dans les oeuvres qui debattent a leur propos, ainsi l'"Objet des discussions" (Kathavatthu) ou les "Questions du roi Menandre" (Milindapanha) puis dans des sources plus tardives comme Buddhaghosa ou l'un ou l'autre penseur du "Grand Vehicule". Au stock des questions fondamentales qui reste la meme d'age en age et qui concerne par exemple le passage de la mort a la renaissance, qu'elle soit humaine, celeste ou infernale, on a ajoute quelques breves considerations sur la causalite karmique, sur karman et instinct ou sur l'equivalence samsara-nirvana.La deuxieme partie porte sur les dogmes precites tels qu'ils sont vus par le bouddhisme populaire. On aborde des lors une litterature d'un type tres different: un enorme repertoire de recits et de contes moraux enrichi au long des siecles et ou se detachent les Jataka's, c'est-a-dire ces "[recits par le Buddha lui-meme de ses] naissances anterieures". On peut y suivre les odyssees transmigratoires de personnages tantot fameux (le Buddha lui-meme, ses disciples, ses contemporains, ses adversaires ideologiques), tantot anonymes, a qui leurs actes moraux ou immoraux, pieux (envers le Buddha et ses moines) ou impies ont valu de renaitre heureux ou malheureux ici-bas, dans les cieux ou les enfers, comme animaux ou fantomes. Cet ensemble narratif destine a instruire et edifier moines et laics bouddhistes permet aussi des remarques diverses, par exemple sur l'anamnese des vies anterieures ou sur la duree des diverses renaissances et sejours dans les spheres cosmiques.
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Peeters Publishers Sino-Mongol Relations During the Ming, I. the
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Peeters Publishers La Concentration De La Marche Heroique
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Peeters Publishers Sino-Mongol Relations During the Ming, III. Trade
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£37.57
Peeters Publishers Le Materiel Mongol du Houa I I Iu de Houng-ou
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Peeters Publishers Buddha Mind - Christ Mind: A Christian Commentary
Book SynopsisThe Bodhicaryavatara (“Entering the Course towards Awakening”) is an Indian Mahayana Buddhist companion to the path of a Bodhisattva, someone motivated by the altruistic “spirit of awakening”. Unlike many other Buddhist scriptures, much of this text is written in the very touching form of personal reflections. Despite its late composition (7th-8th cent. CE), the Bodhicaryavatara quickly gained widespread recognition and high appraisal in various parts of the Buddhist world and even beyond. Today it is one of the most widely translated Buddhist texts. The 14th Dalai Lama has emphasized the special impact of this scripture on his own spirituality, and a number of Western scholars have praised it as a true gem among the world’s religious classics. After many commentaries by Buddhist scholars throughout the centuries, this is the first commentary from a Christian perspective, exploring the deep resonances between the “spirit of awakening” and the “spirit of Christ”.
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Peeters Publishers Buddhism and Daoism on the Holy Mountains of
Book SynopsisThis volume sheds new light on the matter of religious mountain culture in China – a theme of great relevance to the Chinese civilization. Already during the Chinese antiquity, mountains had specific ritual functions. This may be seen as a precursor to the importance mountains gained when in medieval China Buddhism and Daoism emerged as dominant religions. Adepts of both religions often went into retreat on mountains to practice spirituality, and as a result monastic communities often formed on mountains. In the further course, certain mountains began to attract pilgrims, since they were associated with famous practitioners who had lived there, or since they were seen as the seat of particular Buddhist or Daoist deities. As it would be impossible to cover this wide field in total, the present volume is designed to offer specialized studies of selected segments. Contributing scholars include Bart Dessein, Susan Andrews, Huang Chi-chiang, Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Thomas Jülch, Stephen Eskildsen, Jan de Meyer, and Louis Komjathy.
£146.44
Peeters Publishers Melanges Chinois Et Bouddhiques 6: 1938-1939
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Peeters Publishers Sino-Mongol Relations During the Ming, II. The
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Alpha Edition Buddhist parables
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Alpha Edition The Sacred Books of the East (Volume XLIX):
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£16.39
Alpha Edition Hand-book of Chinese Buddhism, being a
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£26.71
Alpha Edition The MahaVastu (Volume III)
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Alpha Edition The Mahavastu (Volume II)
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£16.39
Double 9 Booksllp The Light of Asia
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£11.69
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian
Book SynopsisThe interdisciplinary volume Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, offers a new transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It looks at the region as an integrated (religious) whole rather than from the perspective of fragmented sub-disciplines and analyses the spread of Buddhism as a driving force in a societal and cultural change of pan-Asian importance. One particular dimension of this Buddhist globalisation' was the rise of local forms of Buddhism.
£63.18
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion
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Sharada Prakashan Buddhism:: Heritage and Hermitage
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£145.79
Sharada Publishing House Buddhist Heritage of Nepal: History, Art and
Book SynopsisSociety of Nepal is also discussed in a chapter and finally the contribution of Nepali peoples to the Indian territory is also described with well supported facts.Hope, this book will get love from not only the Nepali people but also by the nature lovers, anthropologists, art-historians and indologists.
£154.79
Aleph Book Company No Mud, No Lotus
Book SynopsisSerene and wise, No Mud, No Lotus is an immensely practical guide to overcoming lifeâs big and little problems.
£13.33
Pentagon Press Ji Xianlin: A Critical Biography
Book SynopsisJi Xianlin: A Critical Biography reconstructs the academic, professional and personal journey of the doyen of Indology, Buddhism and Orientalism in China. Though his On a Long Journey of life remains full of trials and tribulations, and an emotional world buried deep under the familial and professional obligations, nonetheless, true to the evaluation, he remains indispensable as far as China’s translation, comparative literature, Dunhuang-Turfan studies and cultural exchanges are concerned. India runs through his veins throughout this journey, whether it is his path breaking textual research on the dissemination of paper and silk from China to India or the sugar from India to China, or the Indian Literature in China and translation of Ramayana, Panchtantra, Shanakuntla etc. from Sanskrit, or the reminiscences of his visits to India, one and all have been supplemented with credible primary sources from historical records. It is not easy to weave a tapestry of the life and works of a person as versatile as Ji Xianlin, but the authors have done a remarkable job in mirroring Ji Xianlin’s journey through the Qing, Republican and the People’s Republic. I believe this tapestry will be woven uninterrupted, for Ji Xianlin remains a link between the past and the future.
£110.50
