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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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American Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 350-362, August 2024.Abstract In Thailand, the volatile period from 2019 to 2023 was marked by changing material and political atmospheres. Air pollution, the COVID‐19 pandemic, and government restrictions on speech transformed how Thai citizens breathed and how they related to the monarchy. Understanding this period as a history of breath reconceptualizes the citizen‐body
Eli Elinoff
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ReligionsThis 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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A Conversation With Marc Hallin
International Statistical Review, Volume 92, Issue 2, Page 137-159, August 2024.Summary Marc Hallin was born in Ghent, Belgium, on 23 April 1949. He holds a Licence en Sciences mathématiques (1971), a Licence en Sciences actuarielles (1972), and a Doctorat en Sciences (1976) from the Université libre de Bruxelles. He then rose through the professorial ranks at the same institution, being successively Premier Assistant (1977–1978),
Christian Genest
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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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The Stoicism of Śāntideva: Comparisons between Stoic and Buddhist philosophy
Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 4, Page 377-399, August 2024.Abstract Recently, due to various geopolitical events, a movement for 'decolonisation' has taken shape. In essence, this movements seeks to right the wrongs of Western colonialism. This desire has been expressed in many diverse ways depending on the context.
Lee Clarke
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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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Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 186-205, June 2024.Abstract Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world‐making.” The article focuses on one ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
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Nalanda: Ancient Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara
, 2019 This ancient Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was found at Nalanda. The Amida Buddha is shown in the crest on the head, and the small figures above the head of the Bodhisattva show the Buddha in various ...
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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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