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Religions, 2023 Within the cultural integration of Indian Buddhist art and Chinese Buddhist art, standing Buddha statues carved in-the-round with thin, tight-fitting robes require special attention.
Shuangqiao Meng, Peining Li
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Japanese Monks and Chinese Books: Glimpses of Buddhist Sinology in Early Tokugawa Japan
Religions, 2021 In the17th and 18th centuries, just as English scholars were reading and writing about their heritage in the continental prestige language of Latin, so too were Japanese members of the Buddhist clergy researching and publishing about the Chinese language
Timothy H. Barrett
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Collective-Karma-Cluster-Concepts in Chinese Canonical Sources: A Note
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2023 This is a preliminary research note on the cluster concepts of collective karma in Chinese Canonical sources. The goal is to draw scholarly attention to this vast, understudied area of research and to invite more scholars to join this collective effort.
Jessica Zu
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Literal means and hidden meanings : a new analysis of skillful means [PDF]
, 2009 Skillful means is usually used by scholars and Buddhists to denote the following simple idea: the Buddha skillfully adapted his teaching to the level of his audience.1 This very broad and somewhat oversimplified definition tries to incorporate the ...
Federman, Asaf
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How to Protect One’s Home in Medieval China? A Study of the Fóshuō ānzhái shénzhòu jīng 佛說安宅神呪經
Religions, 2023 The protection of one’s home and ensuring the safety of one’s family have been deep-rooted concerns throughout time and in all cultures. Ānzhái 安宅 (“pacifying one’s residence”) rituals can be traced to ancient China and are still practiced in ...
Gang Yang, Christoph Anderl
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Trickster-Like Teachings in Tibetan Buddhism: Shortcuts towards Destroying Illusions [PDF]
, 2018 Trickster-like Dharma teachings in Tibetan Buddhism behave as a kind of shortcuts in the approach to leading people along the path of enlightenment. This essay collects three such teachings of different levels towards destroying illusions, i.e., Buddha’s
ma, Z.
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Meditation, Saṃsāra, and Confession: Fragments of Old Uyghur Text on Various Issues
İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2022 Although the development of Buddhism among Turks occurred in the Western Uyghur Khanate, Turks’ first encounter with Buddhism is thought to date back much earlier.
Uğur Uzunkaya
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Buddhism and Animal Ethics [PDF]
, 2017 This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha's teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of ...
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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Words Denoting the Sky in Mongolic Languages: Etymology and Semantics
Oriental Studies, 2022 Introduction. The articles examines etymologies and semantics of Mongolic words denoting the sky. The system of astronomical terms in Mongolic languages is structurally complicated due to multiple layers of pre-Buddhist, Buddhist and other beliefs ...
Anna V. Dybo +5 more
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Authentic Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and its Controversial Terma Tradition: A Review [PDF]
, 2016 This short commentary reviews, on the one hand, the authentic formation and development of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, an innovative branch that is featured by the transformation of negative emotions (NEs) to a valuable vehicle to reach the enlightenment ...
Zhen, Ma
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