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Lurching Towards a Canon: Mahāyāna Sūtras in Khotanese Garb

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021
The concept of canon centers around authority. Assertions about canonicity both reflect and reshape the structure and the source of authority. In a Buddhist context, processes of canonization are highly fluid and complex, shedding light on the socio ...
Ruixuan Chen
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(A-) parigraha- in the Early Buddhist Canon

open access: diamondJournal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu), 2011
Yuima INABA
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Non-Violence, Asceticism, and the Problem of Buddhist Nationalism

open access: yesGenealogy, 2020
Contemporary Buddhist violence against minority Muslims in Myanmar is rightfully surprising: a religion with its particular moral philosophies of non-violence and asceticism and with its functional polytheism in practice should not generate genocidal ...
Yvonne Chiu
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Contingent and Contested: Preliminary Remarks on Buddhist Catalogs and Canons in Early Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article explores the notion of the Buddhist canon in seventh- and eighth-century Japan. It relies on scriptorium documents, temple records, and manuscripts of catalogs to argue that there was no single Buddhist canon in ancient Japan; each was ...
Bryan Lowe
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АРХИТЕКТУРНО-ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННЫЕ ТРАДИЦИИ ХУРУЛОВ СЯКЮСН СЮМЕ, БУРХН БАГШИН АЛТН СЮМЕ. ЭТНИЧЕСКИЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ИСКУССТВА БУДДИЗМА СОВРЕМЕННОЙ КАЛМЫКИИ

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The theme of article is Buddhist art of modern Kalmykia. Cult art of the Kalmyks was formed in the course of Buddhist fi ne art canon by the infl uence of traditional culture. Buddhist iconography in interpreting of nomads is syncreatic.
Svetlana Garrievna Batyreva
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Metaphor and Nirvana in the Early Buddhist Canon

open access: hybridThe Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2010
Hwang Soonil
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Becoming a Nun, Becoming a Man: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Transformation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper explores apparent contradictions in the gender identifications of Taiwanese Buddhist nuns. Because the texts and teachings of their tradition provide conflicting messages about women\u27s spiritual abilities, the nuns create a complex gender ...
Crane, Hillary
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