robinet
Noun
Meaning
The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.
A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
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Robinet (1997), p. 3 Kohn (2000), p. xi It is contested by hermeneutic (interpretive) difficulties in the categorization of the different Taoist schools, sects and movements.
In early March, after at least four Los Angeles police officers could not immediately resolve a situation with homeless man Charley Saturmin Robinet, one of them shot him to death in broad daylight.
Robinet (1997), p. 103. Sinologists Isabelle Robinet and Livia Kohn agree that "Taoism has never been a unified religion, and has constantly consisted of a combination of teachings based on a variety of original revelations."
Robinet (1997), p. 132. Other texts While the Tao Te Ching is most famous, there are many other important texts in traditional Taoism.
Robinet (1997), p. 63. Maspero (1981), p. 41. The pantheon tends to mirror the bureaucracy of Imperial China ; deities also may be promoted or demoted for their actions.
To put that into perspective, Robinet said, “The National Partnership for Women and Families argues that if full-time working women in Ohio were paid as much as men, they could afford nine more months of mortgage and utility payments.”