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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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Shin, Cin, and Jinn in far east Asian, central east Asian, and middle eastern cultures : case studies in transethnic communication by exchange of terminology for elementary spiritual concepts of ethic groups [PDF]

, 2008
Methodology and Objects: Methodologically, from a diachronic linguistics perspective regarding the concept of the shin, spirits in folk belief in China and neighbouring cultures, we compare texts that comprise meanings a) historically in the local ...
Haase, Fee-Alexandra
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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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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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“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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The Buddha’s Great Miracle at Śrāvastī: A Translation from the Tibetan \u3cem\u3eMūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2014
This article offers an annotated translation of the story of the Buddha’s great miracle at Śrāvastī, as found in the Tibetan translation of the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya. While miracles of the Buddha are many and various, the great miracle of Śrāvastī, one
Fiordalis, David
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Openness as a Political Commitment

Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 585-603, Winter 2025.
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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Alternative Lineages: The Shisong lü 十誦律 in Japanese Ancient Manuscript Buddhist Canons

Religions
Traditional studies on Chinese Buddhism have largely relied on printed canons from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Goryeo dynasties. However, recent discoveries of Dunhuang and Turfan manuscripts, along with growing recognition of Nihon kosha issaikyō ...
Limei Chi
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