A resource for those who desire to create a contemplative garden or to better understand what it is to follow a contemplative path. The book should be of interest to landscape architects and designers, and anyone interested in the fusion of East and West in cultural expression.
The thesis explores continuous group cohomology of representations from separable locally compact groups on Banach spaces, emphasizing compact groups. It introduces a recursive definition of cohomology to establish vanishing theorems, particularly when certain fixed points exist. The relationship between cohomology of connected Lie groups and their Lie algebras is also examined. Additionally, for cocompact closed subgroups, it demonstrates the injectivity of the restriction map, linking this to the complete reducibility of representations.
Contemplative design and Zen teachings--a look at how we can transform our lives and our work through the lens of Japanese garden design. Garden design is the way of discovering the garden. And the garden is a metaphor for life itself. Part garden design philosophy and part Zen Buddhism, this book eloquently shows us how the principles of garden design are the same guidelines we can follow to design our life. Intentional living is the subject of design. When we approach our work in the garden, or in our life, through the practice of contemplative design, we can elevate the whole; we can unite the spiritual with the ordinary; we can join heaven and earth.