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Elusive Notions of Bodhisattvas: Personified, Idealized, Mystified, Naturalized, and Integral
ReligionsThis 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
Fafnir, 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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Heritage 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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, 2022 Although the complete sculpture is now lost, the facial features, wavy hair, and mustache of this head, as well as the gray stone, help to identify this sculpture as a Gandharan work.
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Clearing the Course: Folio 348 of the Nepalese Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra in the Cleveland Museum of Art
Religions, 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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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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Kṣānti in the bodhisattva path of Śāntideva
, 2021 Śāntideva, an Indian Buddhist monk who flourished in the 8th century C.E., was the author of two works, the Bodhicaryāvatāra and the Śikṣāsamuccaya. These texts concern the practices of the bodhisattva and have an important place in the Mahāyāna Buddhist
Nelson, Barbara Elizabeth
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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Trauma and loss constitute recurring themes in both Murakami's fictional and non‐fictional writing. In the short story Tony Takitani, Murakami portrays a father and son confronting trauma and loss in the aftermath of the Second World War and the nuclear devastation of Japan.
David Potik
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Buddhist Perspectives on Death
RUDN Journal of PhilosophyThe 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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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