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Mandala : structure d'organisation d'un paysage sacré du Sikkim (Inde)
Géographie et Cultures, 2002 Beyül Demojong is a buddhist sacred landscape of Western Sikkim (India). Symbols of Mahayana buddhism like monasteries, stupas, chortens, prayer's flags and tantric's rituals, are particularly developed within an original spatialorganization. The history
Olivier Chiron
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Story, Metaphor, and Altruism in Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 The Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI) is a cross-cultural exchange of Western and Tibetan Buddhist education and scholarship. In this partnership between the Dalai Lama Foundation and Emory University, two visiting Western scientists to Sera, Gaden ...
Michael P. Black +5 more
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Decision usefulness of SME financial statements in Sri Lanka
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 1059-1088, March 2025.Abstract This paper examines the users of Sri Lankan small and medium‐sized entities' (SMEs) financial statements, and their information needs. Semi‐structured interviews found the main recipients of SME financial information are banks, the Inland Revenue Department and other government institutions.
Nisansala Wijekoon +2 more
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ReligionsThis paper shifts the research perspective from “Buddhist monasteries” to “monastic Buddhism,” using Nālandā Mahāvihāra as a micro-level case to illuminate the broader support mechanism of Indian Buddhist monasteries, with particular focus on the concept
Huiyuan Bian
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Les politiques du passé face aux usages sociaux dans la restauration des temples bouddhistes
CeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2012 This paper analyses the impact of modern heritage conservation policies on traditional frameworks for preserving Buddhist monasteries in Thailand and Sri Lanka by investigating the shift of practice and approaches in conservation.
Béatrice Byer Bayle
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Pleasure and Fear: On the Uneasy Relation between Indic Buddhist Monasticism and Art
Religions, 2022 When monastics of the Indic North and Northwest around the turn of the Common Era made the decision to introduce art into monasteries, current cultural assumptions regarding the aesthetic experience of such objects, which were axiomatically negated by ...
Henry Albery
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringAs a typical religious cultural heritage, Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the Hehuang region of northwest China have strong connections with surrounding villages that practice Tibetan Buddhism.
Yaolong Zhang +3 more
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Child Abuse Review, Volume 35, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT In Sri Lanka, there are more than 12,000 Buddhist monasteries where children as young as 5, mainly from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, are ordained with the expectation of becoming life‐long monks. Although child ordination is identical to the placement of a child in alternative care, it is carried out entirely on the discretion of the ...
Chandana Namal Rathnayake
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Iconographic Features of Kalmyk Embroidery: Traditional and Contemporary Practices
Oriental Studies, 2021 Introduction. The Kalmyks are a Mongolic Buddhist people that arrived in the Volga region in the 17th century. The specific ethnic features of Buddhism professed by the Kalmyks took shape over centuries of Russian suzerainty and were determined by ...
Tatyana I. Sharaeva
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