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The Chinese Equivalent and Transition of Gatha in the Chinese Buddhist Canon

open access: yesJOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES (INDOGAKU BUKKYOGAKU KENKYU), 2005
An Shigao of the Parthian Empire arrived at Luoyang in the Late Han Dynasty, and initiated translation of Buddhist texts into Chinese. Because he was a first translator, he experienced various difficulties with respect to selection of appropriate vocabulary and idiom.
openaire   +1 more source

Exploring Local Aspects for a Culturally and Contextually Adapted Family Therapy Training in Cambodia

open access: yesFamily Process, Volume 64, Issue 1, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The goal of this study was to further local knowledge production and the ground‐up cultural and contextual competencies needed for family therapy training and practice in Cambodia. First, expert interviews were conducted with Cambodian and international mental health professionals with several years of professional experience in Cambodia (N ...
Bernhild Pfautsch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Semi‐Interactive Thangka Floral and Leaf Element Image Generation Network Based on Hand‐Drawn Sketches

open access: yesIET Image Processing, Volume 19, Issue 1, January/December 2025.
This study has created an intangible cultural heritage image dataset and proposed a Thangka floral element image generation network based on hand‐drawn sketch guidance. It provides a model for research on the digital preservation and promotion of intangible cultural heritage.
Da Sun   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Disney's Worlds Through Religious Studies

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11-12, December 2024.
ABSTRACT Over the course of the last century (1923–2023), the Walt Disney Company has both catalyzed and reflected dizzying changes in the American cultural landscape—including religious ones. Scholars of Disney and religion often take one of three tactics to analyze this pairing: 1) Disney as religion 2) Disney depicting religion, or 3) Disney as ...
Jodi Eichler‐Levine
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of the Initial System of the Yongle Nanzang 永乐南藏 Based on Phonological Correlations and Their Relationship with the Qishazang 磧砂藏

open access: yesReligions
This study investigates the initial consonant system of the Yongle Nanzang 永乐南藏, the second officially printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon of the Ming dynasty, and its relationship to the Qishazang 磧砂藏.
Yongchao Jiang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Even a piece of paper has two sides’: multi‐scalar cosmologies of Japanese New Year cards

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 646-668, September 2024.
Abstract Annually on 1 January, Japan's efficient postal system circulates 2.5 billion New Year cards to arrive simultaneously in every home in the country. Based on ethnographic fieldwork around Osaka, this article investigates the continued popularity of this exchange of paper forms in an age of smartphones and fast internet connections.
Inge Daniels
wiley   +1 more source

Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Education and Its Contemporary Adaptations Since 1959

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article surveys the academic literature on Tibetan Buddhist monastic education, covering both its development inside Tibet prior to 1959, when the fourteenth Dalai Lama fled into exile, and its revival and adaptations since that time. Academic works on monastic education before 1959 examine important landmarks from the 11th until the 20th
Nicholas S. Hobhouse
wiley   +1 more source

Unloving Mothers: Jesuit Knowledge Production on Abortion and Infanticide in Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries*

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 230-244, June 2025.
LINDA ZAMPOL D'ORTIA
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Religious Studies: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times?

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 54-61, September 2024.
ABSTRACT In this article, the authors explore their motivations for conceiving of and assembling the current issue on comparative religious studies as a viable pedagogical orientation for our troubled times. Situated in both the history of comparison as a method and scholarship on effective pedagogy, it argues that disciplined, scholarly, sound ...
Christopher Jensen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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