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Buddhist Monasteries in Southern Mongolia [PDF]
, 2003 At the beginning of the twentieth century, more than a thousand Buddhist monasteries of Tibeto-Mongol tradition were active in Southern Mongolia, now the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in China. A century later, less than two hundred have survived.
Charleux, Isabelle
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Redai diliThe spatial distribution characteristics of Buddhist monasteries in Yunnan Province, a typical sample area of Buddhist diversity, have not been studied.
Peng Wen +5 more
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Reconstructing Buddhist Monasteries in Post-Taiping China [PDF]
Ming Qing Yanjiu, 2019 Abstract The Taiping War (1850–1864) destroyed tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of religious sites across China. In the wake of the destruction, Buddhist and other religious leaders led reconstruction campaigns to rebuild temples and monasteries that had been destroyed.
Scott, Gregory Adam; id_orcid
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Role of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Snow Leopard Conservation
Conservation Biology, 2013 Abstract The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) inhabits the rugged mountains in 12 countries of Central Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau. Due to poaching, decreased abundance of prey, and habitat degradation, it was listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in
Juan, Li +14 more
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STUDY ON THE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE RINZAI ZEN SECT BUDDHIST MONASTERIES IN KYÔTO
Dimensi: Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 2000 In the middle of the 14th century, the Five Temples or Five Mountains (Gozan) of Rinzai Zen sect were developed rapidly in the city of Kyôto. The ranking system of officially sponsored by Zen Buddhist monasteries were created by the Kamakura and ...
Antariksa Antariksa
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Buddhist monasteries and (their) oxen : Daoxuan's vinaya commentaries
Buddhist texts generally prohibit the killing and harming of all sentient beings. This is certainly the case in vinaya (disciplinary) texts, which contain strict guidelines on the preservation of all human and animal life. When these texts were translated into Chinese, they formed the core of Buddhist behavioral codes, influencing both monastic and lay
Heirman, AnnLW218010010195670000-0001-6148-6487F4E9C06C-F0ED-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4
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Early Buddhist Monasteries in Sri Lanka: A Landscape Approach [PDF]
, 2013 Early monasteries are popularly perceived as ‘otherworldly’, purposefully founded as isolated retreats far from human habitation. Such views were formed through the bias towards textual sources in early academic enquiry. Ethnographic (e.g. Gombrich 1971)
Davis, Christopher Edward
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Building the Buddhist Revival:Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China
, 2020 Between 1850 and 1966, tens of thousands of Buddhist sacred sites in China were destroyed, victims of targeted destruction, accidental damage, or simply neglect.
Scott, Gregory Adam; id_orcid
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Buddhist monasteries facilitated landscape conservation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau [PDF]
Landscape Ecology, 2021 Abstract Context The Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau—also known as the “Three Rivers’ Headwaters”—is the origin of the Yellow, Yangtze, and Mekong Rivers and therefore the key water source for hundreds of millions of downstream residents.
Cui, Naixin +6 more
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Kolostori kutatómunka Mongóliában
Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2018 The article describes the author’s fieldworks and research on different topics in Mongolian Buddhist monasteries between 1999 and 2017. The research topics included the history and revival of Mongolian monasteries, description of different Mongolian ...
Zsuzsa Majer
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