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ReligionsInheriting a tradition of religious tolerance from the Inner Asian Steppe, the Mongol Yuan Empire elevated Buddhism to a pivotal role in unifying its multiethnic and culturally diverse domain, with Tengriist ideology serving as the political foundation ...
Xiaobai Li
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PhilosophiesIn this paper, the Buddhist view on language and its implications for perception and cognition will be analyzed. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that archaic Buddhism, as documented in the suttas of the Pāli Canon, already presents a well ...
Federico Divino
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, 2010 There are a number of canonical collections in Buddhism rather than a single fixed corpus of texts that all Buddhists regard as “the canon.” The term Tripiṭaka (Sanskrit)/Tipiṭaka (Pāli) refers to the Three Baskets or groups of texts that ideally ...
Daniel Veidlinger
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Lurching Towards a Canon: Mahāyāna Sūtras in Khotanese Garb
Entangled 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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Non-Violence, Asceticism, and the Problem of Buddhist Nationalism
Genealogy, 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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Buddhism, Diversity and ‘Race’: Multiculturalism and Western convert Buddhist movements in East London – a qualitative study [PDF]
This study considers the development of convert Buddhism in multicultural environments. Its focus is on the encounters of people of colour (defined for the purposes of this study as people of African, Asian and Caribbean descent) with Western convert ...
Smith, Sharon Elizabeth
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Almost a proper Buddhist : the post-secular complexity of heritage Buddhist teen identity in Britain [PDF]
, 2014 This qualitative study explores how Buddhist affiliation relates to practice, how Buddhist teens define and experience their religious identity and which sociological paradigms are helpful in understanding the dynamics of Buddhist teen identity.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas +1 more
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Oriental 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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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article provides an overview of Buddhist paintings stored by the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS. The object of research is the traditional pictorial art of Kalmykia.
S. G. Batyreva
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The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess [PDF]
, 2007 Senshi was born in 964 and died in 1035, in the Heian period of Japanese history (794–1185). Most of the poems discussed here are what may loosely be called Buddhist poems, since they deal with Buddhist scriptures, practices, and ideas.
Kamens, Edward
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