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Enquête interdisciplinaire autour du bodhisattva des Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxelles

open access: yesCeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2014
Since its acquisition by the museum, the bodhisattva of RMAH had been identified as a Buddhist sculpture from the 10th century made of dry lacquer, a barely known Asian technique. However, a precise observation of the artwork raised doubts regarding this
Audrey Dion
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Elusive Notions of Bodhisattvas: Personified, Idealized, Mystified, Naturalized, and Integral

open access: yesReligions
This paper aims to juxtapose bodhisattvas, awakened beings recognized in various Buddhist traditions and contemporary philosophies, as viewed through different lenses: as personified symbols, idealistic visions, mystical manifestations, naturalized ...
Sabine Grunwald
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Fictioning the Futures of Climate Change

open access: yesFafnir, 2022
Fictionality, at a basic level, is a heuristic invitation. It achieves its effects using a combination of worldbuilding and speculative potential, the former the design and the latter the openings afforded by the conditions of the design. Within climate
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
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Dazzling Displays and Hidden Departures: Bodhisattva Pedagogy as Performance in the Biographies of Two Twentieth Century Tibetan Buddhist Masters

open access: yesReligions, 2017
This article, part of a special issue on pedagogy and performance in Tibetan Buddhism, explores two closely-related yet apparently opposite Tibetan repertoires of virtuoso Buddhist mastery as sites of performative pedagogy. One of these modes of Buddhist
Annabella Pitkin
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Clearing the Course: Folio 348 of the Nepalese Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra in the Cleveland Museum of Art

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The final 15 folios of the Nepalese illuminated palm-leaf manuscript of the Sanskrit Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra of c. 1100 have more paintings per page, larger picture planes, and different types of scenes than are found on the leaves surviving from the first 340 ...
Sonya Rhie Mace
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Craftsmanship and materials: painted Bodhisattva sculptures in the Fengguo Temple dated to the year 1020 in Yi County, Northeast China

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2021
As a royal temple, the Fengguo Temple has profound historical, artistic, scientific and social values. With a thousand-year history, it is one of the three existing temples of the Liao Dynasty in China.
Jiahang Song   +4 more
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Emotional (Dis/Un)entanglement in Becoming an Academic in the Neoliberal Era: Dialogising Transnational Accounts of Being, Thinking and Feeling

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1031-1041, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the complex emotions and affective challenges that academics might experience in their journey of becoming within neoliberal higher education contexts transnationally. These are examined in entanglement with intricate social, ideological, political and racial factors across different stages of academic careers.
Mahtab Janfada   +3 more
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Buddhist Perspectives on Death

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy
The study deals with some of the central issues concerning the notion of death as discussed in Theravāda (Pāli Buddhism) as well as Mahāyāna Buddhism. What is the sense that death is regarded as an instance of duḥkha (Sanskrit) or dukkha (Pāli)?
Pradeep P. Gokhale
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Emperor Wu of Liang’s Reinterpretation and Elevation of the Precepts as the Bodhisattva Ideal

open access: yesReligions
This paper examines Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty (r. 502–549) and his efforts to reform the Buddhist saṅgha through the establishment of the bodhisattva precepts and the proclamation of the Prohibition of Alcohol and Meat.
Yoon Kyung Cho
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How Can Religion Shape Pro‐Environmental Behavior in a Materialistic World? Contrasting Idealism With Realism Religious Epics

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 1300-1326, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the influence of religion on pro‐environmental behavior, little attention has been paid to the role of religious epics—that is, narratives that embody the core beliefs and moral values of religious traditions—as a mechanism for promoting such behavior.
Manish Das   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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