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Brahmā at the Ajapāla Banyan Tree: Re-Examining Paintings at the Sulamani Temple, Bagan
Religions, 2020 This article examines how the literary evidence corroborates with the visual evidence for the unusual presence of Brahmā with the Buddha at the Ajapāla banyan tree of the goatherd symbolizing the Fifth of the Seven Weeks after the Enlightenment of the ...
Osmund Bopearachchi
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteEthical 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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Art. IX.—The Sects of the Buddhists [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1891 We find in the Dīpavamsa (Chapter V. 39–48) a list of the eighteen sects (or schools rather) into which the Buddhists in India had, in the course of the second century of the Buddhist era, been divided. In the Mahāvamsa (Chapter V.) there is a similar list, evidently drawn from the same sources, but omitting (in Tumour's texts) numbers 1–7 of the older
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, 2015 This collection features papers on Buddhist art, new forms of architecture and traditional thanka painting, as well as the problem of coexistence between tradition and innovations within sacral Buddhist art in modern global world.
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Does Leaders’ Mindfulness Benefit Followers? A Meta‐analytic Review and Research Agenda
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract Within leadership research, mindfulness is increasingly viewed as being critical for leadership effectiveness. Central to leadership is the ability to support, motivate, and engage followers – that is, the capacity to have influence. Mindfulness has been proposed as a valuable enabler of effective leadership influence.
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Buddhism, Beauty, and Virtue [PDF]
, 2017 The chapter challenges hyperbolic claims about the centrality of appreciation of beauty to Buddhism. Within the texts, attitudes are more mixed, except for a form of 'inner beauty' - the beauty found in the expression of virtues or wisdom in forms of ...
Cooper, David
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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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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The Sinicization of Dunhuang Mogao Cave Buddhist Art [PDF]
International Journal of Korean History, 2014 The introduction of Indian Buddhism in China occurred around the Christian era. However, Indian Buddhism was not directly accepted by the Han Chinese as they could not rival the philosophical religions which were already in existence.
Ōhashi Katsuaki
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Pleasure and Fear: On the Uneasy Relation between Indic Buddhist Monasticism and Art
Religions, 2022 When monastics of the Indic North and Northwest around the turn of the Common Era made the decision to introduce art into monasteries, current cultural assumptions regarding the aesthetic experience of such objects, which were axiomatically negated by ...
Henry Albery
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