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From Chang’an to Dunhuang: Bukong and the Iconographic Propagation of Wutai Mountain Manjusri Faith

Religions
Mount Wutai murals in Dunhuang first appeared in the Tubo period of the Middle Tang Dynasty, and their spread in Dunhuang reflects the faith of Mount Wutai here.
Fangfang Li, Kangmin Li
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The effects of language dominance on the L1 and L2 tone production of Mandarin–Cantonese bilinguals [PDF]

JASA Express Letters
The present study investigated the effects of language dominance on the cross-linguistic influence in the first and second languages (L1 and L2) of lexical tone production by Mandarin–Cantonese late bilinguals.
Yue Zou, Yike Yang, Dong Han
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From Palace Lady to Tara: Exploring the Transformation of the Female Role in Buddhist Belief through the Sinicization of Buddhism

Religions
This paper argues that the historical process of the Sinicization of Buddhism and the evolution of the value of female roles in Buddhist beliefs have advanced hand in hand; the more Buddhism becomes Sinicized, the higher the status of women in Buddhist ...
Yun Wang, Shaojiao Zhang
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Do Countries Need Religious and Educational Freedoms to Achieve Prosperity?

Religions, 2023
This study examines the impact of religious and educational freedoms on prosperity. The system GMM model is applied by using the data of 45 lower-, middle-, and high-income countries from 2009 to 2018.
Khatib Ahmad Khan, Danabekova Aigerim, Yansheng Wu   +2 more
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ChatGPT, Bard, Bing Chat, and Claude generate feedback for Chinese as foreign language writing: A comparative case study

Future in Educational Research
This comparative case study analyzes and evaluates the performance of four prevalent artificial intelligence (AI) models―ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, and Claude―in generating feedback on Chinese as a Foreign Language writing.
Saleh Obaidoon, Haiping Wei
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Semantic Restoration of Snake-Slaying in Chan Buddhist Koan

Religions
In the Chan Buddhism koan (gong’an 公案) tradition, the act of “slaying the snake” functions as a signature gesture imbued with complex, historically layered cultural meanings. Rather than merely examining its motivations, this paper emphasizes tracing the
Yun Wang, Yulu Lv
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Changes in Sacrifice by Burning and the Transfer of the Space Inhabited by Ghosts in China: Philological and Linguistic Perspectives

Religions
This paper analyzes changes in sacrifice by burning and the space inhabited by ghosts in ancient China from philological and linguistic perspectives.
Cong Li, Yiyun Zhang
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Inhibitory reversal of morpheme-mediated semantic priming in L2 Chinese: embodiment conflicts in conventional action metaphor processing

Frontiers in Psychology
Semantic priming typically facilitates lexical access; however, this facilitation may reverse into inhibition under certain interferences, such as embodied conflicts in Second Language (L2) processing.
Qianqian Lei, Jianqin Wang, Xingang Yang
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A Comparative Analysis of Poetic Themes in the Poetry of Farrokhi Sistani and Du Fu (Focusing on War, Politics, and Individual Destiny) [PDF]

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Introduction The literary traditions of classical China and Iran each experienced a “golden age” in which poetry became both a mirror and a maker of civilization.
Xinyi Teng, Najmeh Dorri, Gholamhosein Gholamhoseinzadeh, Farhad Javanbakht   +3 more
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Translation as Pedagogy: Dharmagupta’s Didactic Rendering of the Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedikā-Prajñāpāramitā-Sūtra) and Sanskrit Instruction in the Sui–Tang Period

Religions
The Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedikā-Prajñāpāramitā-Sūtra) translated by the Sui Dynasty monk Dharmagupta is the fourth Chinese rendition of the Diamond Sutra.
Jiayi Wang, Nan Wang
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