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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“Art world” of yunnan theravada buddhist murals from the perspective of art sociology: A case study based on murals in Jingzhen buddhist temple [PDF]
MATEC Web of ConferencesFrom the perspective of art sociology, this article adopts the research paradigm of “art world” and “cultural production” to carry out a case study on murals in Jingzhen Buddhist Temple in Xishuangbanna and explore the “production” and “autoproduction ...
Zhang Qiuying
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“Ritual and Magic” in Buddhist Visual Culture from the Bird Totem
Religions, 2022 Despite numerous research findings related to medieval Chinese Buddhism, the witchcraft role of bird totems in Buddhist history has not received sufficient attention.
Zhilong Yan, Aixin Zhang
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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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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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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 Image of the Buddha: Buddha Icons and Aniconic Traditions in India and China
The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2011 This is a study of aniconic Buddhist art in India and China that refers back to the iconoclasm (Bilderstreit) of the 8th and 9th centuries in the Byzantine empire and the subsequent development of an image theory that justified the already well ...
Claudia Wenzel
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