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Amida Worship and Religious Practices: Women’s Role in Nara Period Buddhist Art
Global Perspectives on JapanArt is a powerful medium for communicating with the divine, expressing the inexpressible, and enhancing religious rituals. Buddhism was introduced to Japan in the 6th century, profoundly enriching this connection and fostering a vibrant ...
Selin Özdemir
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Buddhist meditation as art practice: art practice as Buddhist meditation [PDF]
This thesis explores the impact of meditation on art practice. Its basic hypothesis is that Buddhist meditation can expand creative capacity by enabling the practitioner to transcend the limits of everyday sense experience and consciousness. Artists engaging in meditation develop a closer, more aware relationship with their emptiness mind (kongxin ...
Hsieh, Su-Lien
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Buddhism, Diversity and ‘Race’: Multiculturalism and Western convert Buddhist movements in East London – a qualitative study [PDF]
This study considers the development of convert Buddhism in multicultural environments. Its focus is on the encounters of people of colour (defined for the purposes of this study as people of African, Asian and Caribbean descent) with Western convert ...
Smith, Sharon Elizabeth
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The Neuroscience of Religious and Spiritual Practices: A Systematic Review of Neurotheological Evidence. [PDF]
Brain BehavSystematic synthesis of 105 neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies demonstrates that religious and spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer, chanting, worship, and mystical experiences, produce practice‐specific neuroplastic changes in brain networks governing attention, self‐referential processing, emotion regulation, connectivity ...
Husain W +10 more
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet +2 more
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Almost a proper Buddhist : the post-secular complexity of heritage Buddhist teen identity in Britain [PDF]
, 2014 This qualitative study explores how Buddhist affiliation relates to practice, how Buddhist teens define and experience their religious identity and which sociological paradigms are helpful in understanding the dynamics of Buddhist teen identity.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas +1 more
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Research on the early Buddhist architecture in the Ayeyarwady Basin
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023 As the major architectural system in Myanmar, the Buddhist architectural heritage in the Ayeyarwady Basin is a concrete representation of the collision and integration of river basin cultures in time and space.
Yicun Pang, Wei Dong, Xihui Wang
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article provides an overview of Buddhist paintings stored by the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS. The object of research is the traditional pictorial art of Kalmykia.
S. G. Batyreva
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article provides an overview of Buddhist sculpture in the museum collection of the KIH of the RAS. The object of the study is the traditional art in the form of devotional articles. The author considers the sculptural images and reveals the structure,
S. G. Batyreva
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China-Thailand Buddhist mural research: To create the visual art work of the “Three worlds” [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesA study of Sino-Thai Buddhist murals: research for the creation of a visual art work on the theme of The Three Realms The purpose of the study was to examine the development and artistic characteristics of Sino-Thai Buddhist murals as well as the content
Feng Junxian +2 more
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