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Crossing and Questioning Boundaries: Five Influential Books in Mahayana/East Asian Buddhism

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 333-336, June 2025.
Matthew Mitchell
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Silent suasions: interpersonal mediation in Thai meditation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue S1, Page 61-76, April 2024.
Abstract Discourse is the typical modus operandi for persuasive practices, but silence also has an important role to play in many religious contexts. In this essay, I examine how silence works as a mechanism of persuasion in Thailand, where Buddhist logics of meditation permeate social life.
Julia Cassaniti
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Thousand Hands Bodhisattva: Aesthetics, Affect, Sensational Disability

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2017
This project examines the performance Thousand Hands Bodhisattva by hearing impaired dancers and the ways in which the invisible disability might provoke divergent viewing experiences and feelings contingent upon how the performance is contextualized ...
Weisong Gao
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The art of jieyuan: ethical affinity and the cultivation of Chinese Buddhist spirituality in Tanzania

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue S1, Page 96-114, April 2024.
Abstract Ethical encounters in cross‐cultural contexts have been a major concern in the anthropology of morality and religion, yet the dominant view assumes that processes of ethical transformation and conversion emphasize the centrality of texts and beliefs.
Yu Qiu
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Художественные особенности корейских зеркал с изображениями бодхисаттв периода Корё (918–1392)

Искусство Евразии
Статья посвящена исследованию корейских бронзовых зеркал периода Корё (918–1392), украшенных изображениями бодхисаттв и других персонажей буддийского пантеона.
Симонова, А.В.
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The Study of Practice in the Vehicles of Men and Gods and the Bodhisattva Vehicle: Perspectives from Master Taixu to Master Hsing Yun

Religions
This paper explores the perspectives of Master Taixu (太虛, 1890–1947) and Master Hsing Yun (星雲, 1927–2023) on the practice of the Buddhist Five Vehicles (五乘), particularly focusing on the relationship between the Vehicles of Men and Gods (人天乘) and the ...
Chienhuang Chen
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William Wainwright on the Rational Assessment of the Christian Worldview: Between Rationalism and Relativism

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 35-77, March 2025.
Kai‐man Kwan
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Vows without a self

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 108, Issue 1, Page 42-61, January 2024.
Abstract Vows play a central role in Buddhist thought and practice. Monastics are obliged to know and conform to hundreds of vows. Although it is widely recognized that vows are important for guiding practitioners on the path to enlightenment, we argue that they have another overlooked but equally crucial role to play. A second function of the vows, we
Kevin Berryman, Monima Chadha, Shaun Nichols   +2 more
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Bodhisattva Jizō and Folk Religious Influences: Elements of Folk Religion in Jizō’s Understanding in Japan

Asian Studies, 2016
In this paper I will focus on religious meanings that surround Bodhisattva Jizō and their connection with Japanese traditional folk religious beliefs and practices that have greatly influenced the present-day interpretation of the Jizō phenomena in Japan.
Iva LAKIĆ PARAĆ
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Hail and Farewell: An Interview with Fafnir’s Departing and Arriving Editors-In-Chief

Fafnir, 2021
The only constant is change, and thus we at Fafnir are both excited to welcome a new editor-in-chief – Dr. Essi Varis – and sorrowful at the departure of a much-valued and long-serving member of the editorial team – Dr. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay.
Laura E. Goodin
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