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Manas
Manas may refer to: Philosophy and mythology *Manas, the Pali and Sanskrit term for "mind"; see ** Manas (early Buddhism) ** Manas-vijnana, one of the eight consciousnesses taught in Yogacara Buddhism *''Ramcharitmanas'', a retelling of the Ramayana *'' Epic of Manas'', a Kyrgyz epic poem with 500,000 lines Toponymy * Manas River (Drangme Chhu) in southern Bhutan and northeastern India **Royal Manas National Park, a national park in Bhutan ** Manas National Park, a national park in the state of Assam, India *Manas (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Karabudakhkentsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation *Manas, Drôme, a commune in Drôme département in France *Manas-Bastanous, a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France * Manas District, a district of Talas Province, Kyrgyzstan **Manas International Airport, an international airport near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan *** Transit Center at Manas, a United States Air Force base at the airpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Of Manas
The Epic of Manas ( ky, Манас дастаны, Manas dastanı, ماناس دستانی), is a traditional epic poem dating to the 18th century but claimed by Kyrgyz tradition to be much older. Manas is said to be based on Bars Bek who was the first khagan of the Kyrgyz Khaganate. The plot of Manas revolves around a series of events that coincide with the history of the region in the 9th century, primarily the interaction of the Kyrgyz people with other Turkic and Chinese people. The government of Kyrgyzstan celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of Manas in 1995. The eponymous hero of Manas and his Oirat enemy Joloy were first found written in a Persian manuscript dated to 1792–93.Tagirdzhanov, A. T. 1960. "Sobranie istorij". Majmu at-tavarikh, Leningrad. In one of its dozens of iterations, the epic poem consists of approximately 500,000 lines. Narrative The epic tells the story of Manas, his descendants, and their exploits against various foes. The Epic of Manas is divid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transit Center At Manas
Transit Center at Manas (formerly Manas Air Base and unofficially Ganci Air Base) is a former U.S. military installation at Manas International Airport, near Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It was primarily operated by the U.S. Air Force. The primary unit at the base was the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing. On 3 June 2014 American troops vacated the base and it was handed over back to the Kyrgyzstan military. The base was opened in December 2001 to support U.S. military operations in the War in Afghanistan. The base was a transit point for U.S. military personnel coming from and going to Afghanistan. Recreation facilities included internet cafes, wireless internet, pool tables, free video games, and telephone lines via the DSN that allowed coalition forces to call their homes at little or no cost. The base had a large dining facility, a gymnasium, and a chapel. There was also a library where books and magazines were available for active duty airmen. It also hosted for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas Lake
The Manas Lake () is a salt lake in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. It is located in the western part of the Dzungarian Basin, within the Gurbantünggüt Desert. Administratively, the lake is in Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County; the closest urban settlement is Urho District of Karamay City, some to the northwest of the lake. The Manas Lake used to be known as the Yihehake Lake () in the past. Notionally, Lake Manas is considered the end point of the Manas River, flowing from the Tian Shan mountains. In practice, however, the river bed is usually dry where it reaches the lake (), and little river water reaches the lake. The Manas Lake area is characterized by arid climate with hot summers; the average annual precipitation of merely , as compared to the average annual evaporation of ; which means that without an inflow of water from outside, the lake's water level can drop very quickly. Over the second half of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manasarovar
Lake Manasarovar (Sanskrit: मानसरोवर), also called Mapam Yutso (;) locally, is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The lake along with Mount Kailash to its north are sacred sites in four religions: Bön, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. Etymology The Sanskrit word "''Manasarovar''" (मानसरोवर) is a combination of two Sanskrit words; "''Mānas''" (मानस्) meaning "mind (in its widest sense as applied to all the mental powers), intellect, intelligence, understanding, perception, sense, conscience''" while "''sarovara''" (सरोवर) means "''a lake or a large pond deep enough for a lotus''". Geography It is located about 50 kilometers to the northwest of Nepal, about 100 kilometers east of Uttarakhand, and in the southwest region of Tibet. The lake lies at above mean sea level, a relatively high elevation for a large fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas Family
The Manas Family were an Ottoman-Armenian family that provided Imperial Portraitists to the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire in the later half of the 19th century. Some were also chief secretaries to the Ottoman Embassy in Paris and others were music composers. The family The family were Armenians who settled in Istanbul in the 16th century and is believed to be originally from Cappadocia near Kayseri. The family eventually provided successive imperial portraitists in the following years. Family members such as Sebuh Manas (1816–1889), a brother of Rupen, and another Manas named Jozef (1835–1916) both served as imperial artists during the reigns of Mahmud II (1808–1839), Abdulmecid I (1839–1861), Abdulaziz (1861–1876) and Abdulhamit II (1876–1909). Since the brothers were assigned to the Ottoman Embassy in Paris, their portraits were distributed to other embassies throughout Europe. Rafael and Manas Rafael Manas (1710–1780) is the first member of the family to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas National Park
Manas may refer to: Philosophy and mythology *Manas, the Pali and Sanskrit term for "mind"; see ** Manas (early Buddhism) ** Manas-vijnana, one of the eight consciousnesses taught in Yogacara Buddhism *''Ramcharitmanas'', a retelling of the Ramayana *'' Epic of Manas'', a Kyrgyz epic poem with 500,000 lines Toponymy * Manas River (Drangme Chhu) in southern Bhutan and northeastern India ** Royal Manas National Park, a national park in Bhutan ** Manas National Park, a national park in the state of Assam, India *Manas (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Karabudakhkentsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation * Manas, Drôme, a commune in Drôme département in France *Manas-Bastanous, a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France *Manas District, a district of Talas Province, Kyrgyzstan **Manas International Airport, an international airport near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan *** Transit Center at Manas, a United States Air Force base at the airp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Manas
Edgar Manas Effendi ( hy, Էտկար Մանաս; April 12, 1875 in Istanbul – March 9, 1964 in Istanbul) was a Turkish composer, conductor and musicologist of Armenian descent. He is one of the three co-authors of the Turkish National Anthem, as he made the arrangements for orchestra. Family Of Armenian people, Armenian descent, Edgar's father, Alexandre Manas, was the chief translator for the Ottoman Public Debt Administration. The family lineage may be traced back to Caesarea (now Kayseri), where it originated in the mid-sixteenth century. Raphael Manas (c.1710 - 1790), an official painter of the Ottoman Empire, was arguably the most outstanding figure of the Manas dynasty: he made the portraits of Mahmud I, Osman III and Mustafa III. Early life Edgar Manas was born on April 12, 1875, in Istanbul. Artistically gifted young Edgar was sent to Italy at the age of 13 to attend the Murat-Raphaelian Armenian School to study commerce. While in Venice he also took piano lessons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas-vijnana
Manas-vijnana (Skt. "'मानस-विज्ञान"'; mānas-vijñāna; "mind-knowledge", compare '' man-tra'', jñāna) is the seventh of the eight consciousnesses as taught in Yogacara and Zen Buddhism, the higher consciousness or intuitive consciousness that on the one hand localizes experience through thinking and on the other hand universalizes experience through intuitive perception of the universal mind of alayavijnana. Manas-vijnana, also known as klista-manas-vijnana or simply manas, is not to be confused with ''manovijnana'' which is the sixth consciousness. Overlapping Pali terms for "mind" According to Bhikkhu Bodhi, the post-canonical Pali commentary uses the three terms ''viññāa'', ''mano'' and ''citta'' as synonyms for the mind sense base (''mana- ayatana''); however, in the Sutta Pitaka, these three terms are generally contextualized differently: * ''Viññāa'' refers to awareness through a specific internal sense base, that is, through the eye, ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas International Airport
Manas International Airport ( ky, Манас эл аралык аэропорту, Manas El Aralyk Aeroportu ; russian: Международный аэропорт «Манас») is the main international airport in Kyrgyzstan, located north-northwest of the capital Bishkek. History The airport was constructed as a replacement for the former Bishkek airport that was located to the south of the city, and named after Kyrgyz epic hero, Manas, suggested by writer and intellectual Chinghiz Aitmatov. The first plane landed at Manas in October 1974, with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin on board. Aeroflot operated the first scheduled flight to Moscow–Domodedovo on 4 May 1975. When Kyrgyzstan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the airport began a steady decline as its infrastructure was neglected for almost ten years and a sizable aircraft boneyard developed. Approximately 60 derelict aircraft from the Soviet era, ranging in size from helicopters to full-sized airli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas District
Manas ( ky, Манас району) is a district of Talas Region in north-western Kyrgyzstan. Its area is , and its resident population was 37,505 in 2021. The administrative seat lies at Pokrovka. The district is named after the mythical Kyrgyz national hero, Manas, who is said to have been born in the Alatau mountains in the raion. A few kilometers outside Talas lies a mausoleum, supposedly that of Manas, called the '' Kümböz Manas''. However, the inscription on its richly-decorated facade dedicates it to "...the most glorious of women Kenizek-Khatun, the daughter of the Emir Abuka". The building, known as "Manastin Khumbuzu" or "The Ghumbez of Manas", is thought to have been built in 1334. It now contains a museum dedicated to the epic. A ceremonial mound also lies nearby. Population Rural communities and villages In total, Manas District include 22 settlements in 5 rural communities (). Each rural community can consist of one or several villages. The rural communiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas County
Manas County is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of and census it had a population of 170,000. The county seat is the old town of Manas (), located on the Manasi River just east of Shihezi Shihezi is a sub-prefecture-level city in Northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. It has a population of 380,130 according to the 2010 census. The city is also home to Shihezi University, the second-largest comprehensive university under .... Manass has been called: "the biggest city (after Urumchi) in the biggest oasis on the biggest river of the North Road, and the chief centre of the T’ung-kan (Т′уң-кан, Dungan) population."Lattimore, Owen (1930) ''High Tartary'' Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 43. Climate See also * 1906 Manasi earthquake References Transport Manas is served by China National Highway 312, the Northern Xinjiang and the Second Ürü ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas University
) , type = Public Research university , president = Alpaslan CEYLAN Asilbek Kulmirzayev , city = Bishkek , country = Kyrgyzstan , students = 5500 (all campuses) , undergrad = 5000 , postgrad = 200 , administrative_staff = 700 , faculty = 300 , campus = Djal (500 acres/2.00km² Cyngyz Aitmatov Campus) , colors = Red, White, Yellow , website=www.manas.edu.kg Manas University was founded according to an agreement between the governments of the Republic of Turkey and the Kyrgyz Republic about establishment of Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University in Bishkek, which was signed in Izmir on September 30, 1995. The agreement was afterward approved by the competent authorities of both countries. The university began operation in the 1997-1998 academic year. To be accepted to the university, students from the Kyrgyz Republic must pass a university entrance examination, while students from Turkey a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
