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On Some Elements Reflecting Buddhism in Old Uyghur Law Documents

open access: yesUluslararası 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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A Graph Neural Network Approach to Cross‐Cultural Narrative Visualization for Educational Reform

open access: yesEngineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2026.
A BERT‐GNN framework integrated with systemic functional linguistics identifies narrative functions in Thai literary texts and constructs cultural influence graphs for cross‐cultural analysis and digital humanities applications. ABSTRACT Thai literary classics constitute an important medium for the interaction of Southeast Asian multicultural ...
Wanjie Yang, Qian Zhang
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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

open access: yesReligions
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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Embodied Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Intercultural Understanding: Insights from Chinese Traditions

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 289-300, May 2026.
Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
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Written sources in Tibetan language in the collections of the National Museum of the Republic of Tuva

open access: yesНовые 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 access: yesOpen 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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Canons in Context: A History of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon in the Eighteenth Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the eighteenth century, emperors, local rulers, and religious leaders funded and supervised massive efforts to print the Tibetan Buddhist Canon (the Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur) using engraved wood-blocks. My dissertation examines the historical and cultural contexts of these publishing projects in order to understand Tibetan collections of scripture
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Texts and Ritual: Buddhist Scriptural Tradition of the Stūpa Cult and the Transformation of Stūpa Burial in the Chinese Buddhist Canon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Chinese translations of Buddhist sūtras and Chinese Buddhist literature demonstrate how stūpas became acknowledged in medieval China and how clerics and laypeople perceived and worshiped them.
Sun, Wen
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Alternative Lineages: The Shisong lü 十誦律 in Japanese Ancient Manuscript Buddhist Canons

open access: yesReligions
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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Patching up Dunhuang Manuscripts of the Miaofa lianhua jing: Exploring the Buddhist Philological Significance of Textual Reconstruction

open access: yesReligions
The Miaofa lianhua jing 妙法蓮華經 is one of the most important scriptures of early Mahāyāna Buddhism, renowned as the “King of Sūtras”. It was extremely widely transmitted around the Tang Dynasty.
Longquan Qin
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