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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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An Anthropological Outline of the Sutta Nipāta: The Contemplative Experience in Early Buddhist Poetry

Religions, 2023
By examining the Sutta Nipāta, considered one of the collections containing the oldest texts of the Pāli canon, this study aims to reconstruct social, historical, and anthropological aspects of archaic Buddhist doctrine at the time of its definition in ...
Federico Divino
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Buddhism, Beauty, and Virtue [PDF]

, 2017
The chapter challenges hyperbolic claims about the centrality of appreciation of beauty to Buddhism. Within the texts, attitudes are more mixed, except for a form of 'inner beauty' - the beauty found in the expression of virtues or wisdom in forms of ...
Cooper, David
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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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“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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Early Pyrrhonism as a Sect of Buddhism? A Case Study in the Methodology of Comparative Philosophy [PDF]

, 2018
We offer a sceptical examination of a thesis recently advanced in a monograph published by Princeton University Press, entitled Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. In this dense and probing work, Christopher I. Beckwith,
JOHNSON, Monte Ransome, SHULTS, Brett
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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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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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