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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Nierozróżniający wgląd w medytacji buddyzmu chan i jego wczesnobuddyjskie analogie
Argument, 2017 Undifferentiating insight in the Chan Buddhist meditation and its early Buddhist analogies: In the paper a comparative analysis of Chan Buddhist meditation and the early Buddhist meditation has been conducted.
Kamil NOWAK
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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
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Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2026.ABSTRACT Scholarship in the Geography of religion has expanded the study of religious space beyond formal places of worship to informal and temporary sites. This article reviews these developments while highlighting a persistent gap: the limited attention paid to the material agency of architecture.
Silvia Omenetto
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Buddhist impact on Chinese Language [PDF]
, 2012 The Buddhist impact on Chinese language is enormous. This is mainly due to the translation and introduction of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit and other Indic languages.
Guang, X
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From India to China: Evolution of the Connotations of Extracanonical Buddhist Literature
ReligionsThis paper introduces the concept of “Extracanonical Buddhist Literature” and explores its origins and development in the two major Buddhist cultural spheres of India and China. It investigates the roles such texts played in religious practice, doctrinal
Zhongyue Guan, Siyao Wang
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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The Significance of War Allegories in the Pāli Canon
PhilosophiesPrevious scholarship has explored the Buddhist perspective on war and peace in Early Buddhism, offering valuable insights into Buddhist attitudes toward war.
Efraín Villamor Herrero
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Foshuo 佛説 (spoken by the Buddha) in the title of Some Chinese Buddhist Scriptures
, 2021 To anyone familiar with Chinese Buddhist texts, it is common knowledge that the title of some Chinese Buddhist sutra scriptures begins with the phrase of foshuo佛説 (‘spoken by the Buddha’ or ‘expounded by the Buddha’), a phrase literally emphasizing that ...
Pu, C
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