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The Chinese Equivalent and Transition of Gatha in the Chinese Buddhist Canon
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.
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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
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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
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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
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Exploring Disney's Worlds Through Religious Studies
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
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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
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‘Even a piece of paper has two sides’: multi‐scalar cosmologies of Japanese New Year cards
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
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Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Education and Its Contemporary Adaptations Since 1959
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
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 230-244, June 2025.
LINDA ZAMPOL D'ORTIA
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Comparative Religious Studies: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times?
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
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