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Buddhist Art Center of Bihar

RESEARCH HUB International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2022
Mahatma Buddha took birth in Lumbini, Nepal and spread Buddhism in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The remains of Buddhist architecture in the form of stupas, chaityas and Bihar are spread over the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh in the form of Buddhist art centers of India.
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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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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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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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Stylistic, Technical, and Technological Aspects of the Attribution of Buddhist Sculpture from the Collection of Fine Arts of the Chelyabinsk State Museum

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
The article is devoted to the description and attribution of Buddhist metal sculpture from the collection of the Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts made with the help of both carving and casting.
Victoria Vladimirovna Demenova, Denis Vladimirovich Ilyichev   +1 more
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God's Presence in the Aisle: How God Salience Encourages Preference for Ultra‐Processed Foods

Psychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 8, Page 1859-1877, August 2026.
ABSTRACT God‐related cues are pervasive in consumers' daily lives, yet little research has examined how God salience shapes consumer food choices. Drawing on compensatory control theory and the literature on symbolic healing, we present findings from six studies, including a field experiment, demonstrating that high (vs.
Ali Gohary, Hean Tat Keh
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Searching for the beasts in the archive as methodological praxis

Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, August 2026.
This article offers searching for the beasts in the archive as a methodological tool available to researchers invested in both anticolonialism and antianthropocentrism. By focusing on three basic units of reference—categories, histories, and borders—the article shows how searching for the beasts unsettles some taken‐for‐granted assumptions that ...
Senel Wanniarachchi
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Symbolic and Imaginative Source of Mudra and Asana in Buddhist Art

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
This article reveals the meaning of one of the key elements of Buddhist iconography, i.e. the phenomenon of mudra (folding of fingers) and asana (body posture).
Victoria Vladimirovna Demenova
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 242-266, July 2026.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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Images Old and New: Buddhist Painting Preservation and the Transmission of Tradition in Premodern Japan

Ars Orientalis
For the past two decades, scholarship has made great strides uncovering the multifaceted ways in which Buddhist objects provide insights into the beliefs, practices, and worldviews of the people who used and viewed them.
Miriam Chusid
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