Sixteen Stone a remastered edition of the album was released on 14 October 2014. In the UK, a stone is a unit of weight that equals 14 pounds. Therefore, sixteen stone means 224 pounds or about 102 kilograms. When asked why lead singer Gavin Rossdale chose the name "Sixteen Stone" for the name of their album, he said: "Once upon a time there was a lonely man... my friend, who called a phone number advertising a '21-year old Scandinavian beauty, new in town.' When she arrived, she was forty years old and sixteen stone..." In the booklet of "Sixteen Stone", there is
Sixteen characteristics Sixteen characteristics The sixteen characteristics are an extended elaboration of the Four Noble Truths. For each truth, they describe four characteristics. The Tibetan tradition emphasizes the study of the sixteen characteristics of the Four Noble Truths, as described in the "Abhisamayalamkara". The Mahayana text "Ornament of Clear Realization (Abhisamayalamkara)" identifies four characteristics of each truth, for a total of sixteen characteristics, which are presented as a guide to contemplating and practicing the four noble truths. The "Ornament of Clear Realization" is a key text in the curriculum of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and study colleges, and this method of study and