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Child Ordination in South Asian Jainism

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT The practice of initiating minors (children under the age of 18 [bāla or bāl]), was once common among Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant communities in South Asia. This article summarizes scholarship on Jain child ordination, specifically initiation (dīkṣā) into Śvetāmbara mendicant life.
Liz Wilson
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Openness as a political commitment

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 210-229, June 2025.
The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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Did Chinese Buddhists translate the old formula ‘him I call a Brahmin’? The reconstruction of Buddhism as the path of nirvāṇa in Early Chinese translations

Estudios de Traducción
At first, Chinese translators lacked a unified criterion for interpreting Buddhist scriptures. They employed various phonetic transliterations and gradually adopted etymological approaches as their understanding developed.
Efraín Villamor Herrero
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The Process of Transformation–The Core of Analytical Psychology and How it Can Be Investigated1

Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3, Page 355-373, June 2025.
Abstract This article presents the scientific background for the introduction of the international conference in Freiburg (“The Process of Transformation”, Catholic University Freiburg, October 4–6, 2024). On the basis of a thorough analysis of archetype theory, it is first established that there is confusion regarding the definition of archetypes in ...
Christian Roesler
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On Some Elements Reflecting Buddhism in Old Uyghur Law Documents

Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi
The period of Old Uyghur is undoubtedly the era when the Turks had the most intensive contact with Buddhism. During this time, the Uyghurs, who adopted Buddhism, engaged in various translation activities to learn and implement the principles of the ...
CELALETTİN BULUT
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“Like a Mother Her Only Child”: Mothering in the Pāli Canon

Open Theology, 2020
This paper examines mothers and mothering in the Pāli canon and commentaries and contends that a mothering path emerges when the deeply patriarchal traditional hierarchy of values is challenged and, following Karen Derris, the unthoughts related to ...
Engelmajer Pascale F.
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The Mind–Matter Dichotomy: A Persistent Challenge for Neuroscientific and Philosophical Theories

European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 61, Issue 10, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Several areas of cognitive neuroscience tackle traditional philosophical questions. Among the range of problems, two closely related issues will be addressed in more detail from both neurobiological and philosophical perspectives: the relationship between mind and matter and the nature of perception.
Wolf Singer
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Tracing the Incorporation of the Bimo shi Mulian jing into the Chinese Tripitaka and the Attribution of Its Translators: A Study Based on Buddhist Catalogs

Religions
The reliable corpus of Buddhist sutras translated by Zhi Qian 支謙 serves as an important reference benchmark for determining the authenticity of Buddhist sutras from the Three Kingdoms 三國 period to the pre-Jin period (220–265 CE). The Bimo shi Mulian jing
Wen Zhang
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Written sources in Tibetan language in the collections of the National Museum of the Republic of Tuva

Новые исследования Тувы, 2019
Among the collections of the National Museum of the Republic of Tuva there are over 20000 archival units of manuscripts and xylographs in Tibetan language.
Rita P. Sumba
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