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, 2020 The interior soft decoration art of the Buddhist temple has a long history. Under the influence of the unique historical, geographical and religious conditions, it has formed a unique architectural artistic temperament, which will carry forward and ...
Miao-yang Wang
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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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Buddhism and modernity: in the margin of Donald S. Lopez Jr.’S “Buddhism and Science” [PDF]
, 2016 The present article aims at setting the issue of the relationship between Buddhism and science in a historical and philosophical frame wider than that took into account by the international scholarship so far.
LO TURCO, Bruno
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Искусство Евразии, 2021 Статья посвящена иконографии образов буддийского монаха Куя и священнослужителя Дзэндо. Приведены известные скульптурные изображения, находящиеся в храмах Японии. Перевод статьи Локеша Чандры из «Словаря буддийской иконографии» выполнен С.М. Белокуровой.
Чандра, Л.
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Global apocalypse at the turn of the first Millennium AD? Climate fluctuations, astronomic phenomena and socio-political turbulences in 10th and 11th century Byzantium and Japan in comparative perspective [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Around the turn of the first Millennium AD, both in Christian polities such as the Byzantine Empire as well as in Buddhist communities such as in Heian Japan, expectations of an end of times emerged. Although based on different religious and independent chronological interpretations, they gained attraction at the same time due to the parallel ...
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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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Towards a cosmopolitan criticality: Relational aesthetics, Rirkrit Tiravanija and transnational encounters with pad thai [PDF]
, 2013 Marsha Meskimmon and Nikos Papastergiadis have responded to contemporary art’s concern with transculturalism, audience participation and intersubjectivity by re-articulating the cosmopolitan in relation to both aesthetics and globalisation.
null null, Renate Dohmen
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Threats to cycad biocultural heritage in the Amami Islands, Japan
Plant Species Biology, EarlyView.The central point we seek to frame in this article is that the increasing infestations of cycad aulacaspis scale in the Amami guntō existentially threaten not only the islands' sotetsu but rather entire cultural systems and natural ecologies that have developed around these plants.
Joshua D. Englehardt +4 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Ancient Maya texts are informationally dominated by hieroglyphic inscriptions and visually dominated by figural art with distinctly formed hands. The hands suggest iconographically embedded hand signs, which would constitute a unique modality of semantic expression and a discourse complement to hieroglyphic writing.
Rich A. Sandoval
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
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