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How do natural and socio-humanistic factors influence the spatial distribution of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries?

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Tibetan Buddhism is a branch of Buddhism with strong regional and ethnic characteristics, widely distributed across the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau in China.
Yao Yang, Juchao Zhao, Zhenyu Yang, Yaolong Zhao, Subin Fang, Xueting Li, Entong Guo   +6 more
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Redevelopment of Miu Fat Buddhist Monastery

, 2012
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Biancai (1011–1091) and his friends in the outside secular world: Longjing Monastery in the Northern Song (960–1127)

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Longjing Monastery served as a prominent Buddhist center in Hangzhou during the Northern Song Dynasty. Similar to other esteemed Buddhist monasteries and mountains in China, the monastery’s initial prestige owed in part to its mystical associations with ...
Tianyu Lei
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Sacred Resurgence: Revitalizing Buddhist Temples in Modern China

Religions
This paper examines the construction and maintenance of Chinese Han Buddhist temples in modern China against the backdrop of societal transformation.
Yifeng Liu
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From Marginalization to Localization: Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism’s Adaptive Strategies in Theravāda Myanmar

Religions
Tension between the Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhist schools has persisted since early Buddhist times and remains a complex issue. However, recent decades have seen growing joint religious activities and cultural exchanges between followers of these ...
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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Surveying a Sacred Landscape: First Steps to a Holistic Documentation of Buddhist Architecture in Dolpo

Heritage
Dolpo is a culturally Tibetan region in the inaccessible parts of the Himalayas, where Buddhist and Bon traditions coexist to this day. Due to their religious significance, the temples and monasteries of Dolpo reflect the historical connection to the ...
Carmen Elisabeth Auer
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Attitudes arising from Buddhist nurture in Britain [PDF]

, 2014
Focus groups comprised of seventy-five self-identifying Buddhist teenagers in Britain were asked to discuss value domains that previous research has identified to be of special interest to Buddhists.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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STUDY ON THE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE RINZAI ZEN SECT BUDDHIST MONASTERIES IN KYÔTO

, 2004
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-Christian Style”: The Collaboration of Prip-Møller and Reichelt—From Longchang Si to Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre

Religions
Buddhist architecture plays a crucial role in traditional Chinese architecture, representing the localized adaptation of Buddhism, a foreign religion, in China.
Weiqiao Wang, Yan Liu
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Butterfingers: Resculpting Religion at a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery

Provincial China, 2010
For several hundred years a major Buddhist festival has been held at Kubum Monastery (Ch. Ta’ersi) in present-day Qinghai Province in the PRC. Contemporary eyewitness accounts reveal remarkable consistency in its form at least over the century preceding the founding of the current Chinese state in 1949.
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