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The Buddhist Component of the Symbolic Meanings of Street Art Objects in Elista

Концепт: философия, религия, культура
The article describes the city sculptures, monuments and buildings of Elista that have a Buddhist theme. The relevance of the research of city streetscape semantics through the optics of religious studies and culturology is due to the role of communal ...
N. R. Muzafarova, V. N. Mushaev
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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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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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Scrapbook of the Delaware Art Museum, 1979-1980

, 1979
1 scrapbook: 152 pagesScrapbook compiled by the Delaware Art Museum for June 1979 through June ...
Delaware Art Museum
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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Scrapbook of the Delaware Art Museum, 1970-1972

, 1970
1 scrapbook; 171 pagesScrapbook compiled by the Delaware Art Museum for August 1970 through May ...
Delaware Art Museum
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From India to China: The Origin and Transmission of the Han Dynasty’s Column–Arch–Buddha Motif from a Pan-Asian Perspective

Religions
The artistic exchange during Buddhism’s early transmission represents a vital field within Silk Road art studies. When Buddhist art first entered China during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220), many artistic elements originating from Indian and Central ...
Wenjun Hu, Xuguang Zhu, Hu Zhu
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Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V.
Maryse Jayasuriya
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Scrapbook of the Delaware Art Museum, 1974-1975

, 1974
1 scrapbook: 163 pagesScrapbook compiled by the Delaware Art Museum for June 1974 through June ...
Delaware Art Museum
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
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