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Presence, Power, and Agency: Donor Portraits in Early Gandharan Art
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2023 The aim of this paper is to shed light on locally constructed sculptural representations of donors and devotees from Butkara I in Swat valley – one of the earliest Buddhist sites in the Greater Gandhara region.
Elahi, Moizza S.
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The theme of article is Buddhist art of modern Kalmykia. Cult art of the Kalmyks was formed in the course of Buddhist fi ne art canon by the infl uence of traditional culture. Buddhist iconography in interpreting of nomads is syncreatic.
Svetlana Garrievna Batyreva
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The Heritage Buddhist Manuscripts of Ladakh Tibetan Buddhist Canons and the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra [PDF]
, 2020 The history of the earliest transmission of Indian Buddhism to Tibet in the 7th– 8thcenturies is in essence the story of the transmission of its scriptures.
Halkias, Georgios T .
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Mining the Mind: Linear Discriminant Analysis of MEG source reconstruction time series supports dynamic changes in deep brain regions during meditation sessions [PDF]
Brain Topography 34, 840-862 (2021), 2021 Meditation practices have been claimed to have a positive effect on the regulation of mood and emotion for quite some time by practitioners, and in recent times there has been a sustained effort to provide a more precise description of the changes induced by meditation on human brain. Longitudinal studies have reported morphological changes in cortical
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Pagoda Desecration and Myanmar Archaeology, 1853–86 [PDF]
, 2013 Examination of the British occupation of the Shwedagon pagoda in 1853 CE in the context of the formation of the Epigraphic Office from which today's Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Culture has ...
Moore, Elizabeth Howard
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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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The Posture of Lalitāsana: Buddhist Posing Hierarchy in a Tang-Dynasty Chinese Bronze Sculpture
Religions, 2022 The rubric of the presence of Buddhist sculpture in the absence of an actual deity represents an admirable aspect of Buddhist art, especially sculpture, where the best works have drawn on this paradox in an astounding fashion. An important element in the
Bing Huang
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From Ancient Contemplative Practice to the App Store: Designing a Digital Container for Mindfulness [PDF]
Proceedings of DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference
2020, 2020 Hundreds of popular mobile apps today market their ties to mindfulness. What activities do these apps support and what benefits do they claim? How do mindfulness teachers, as domain experts, view these apps? We first conduct an exploratory review of 370 mindfulness-related apps on Google Play, finding that mindfulness is presented primarily as a tool ...
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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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Crafting Cinema in the Buddhist Contemplative Gaze
Religions, 2019 In this essay, I discuss the evolution of my approach to creating Buddhist contemplative cinema. I begin, by way of personal anecdotes, defining my approach to Buddhist life and the evolution of what I will call the “Buddhist contemplative gaze ...
Edward A. Burger
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