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Welcome Insight into Buddhist Vegetarianism in Sri Lanka
Humanimalia, 2016 James Stewart, Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Buddhism. London: Routledge, 2015. 214 pp. $145 hc.
Geoffrey Barstow
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Iconographic Features of Kalmyk Embroidery: Traditional and Contemporary Practices
Oriental Studies, 2021 Introduction. The Kalmyks are a Mongolic Buddhist people that arrived in the Volga region in the 17th century. The specific ethnic features of Buddhism professed by the Kalmyks took shape over centuries of Russian suzerainty and were determined by ...
Tatyana I. Sharaeva
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While REDD+ prioritizes carbon sequestration, its narrow focus often overlooks forest‐health linkages critical to community well‐being. This paper examines the holistic model of Health in Harmony (HIH) and Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), which integrates forest conservation with healthcare through radical listening—a decolonial community engagement
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions
Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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Justice in coexistence: Pastoralism and large carnivores on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The conflict between livestock husbandry and large carnivore conservation presents significant challenges in grassland ecosystems worldwide. Achieving sustainable coexistence among herders, livestock and large carnivores requires reconciling diverse perspectives and interests through equitable, inclusive and fair processes that address both ...
Yufang Gao, Yue Yu
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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How the Dharma Landed: Interpreting the Arrival of Buddhism in New Zealand
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015 In this paper, I describe how Buddhism arrived in New Zealand, and offer a preliminary discussion about its emerging contours. I propose that the 1970s was a watershed decade, effectively delineating an early period (pre-1970s) and a contemporary period (
H. Kemp
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Buddhism, Frontier and Nation-Building: The 1955 Visit of the “Indian Xuanzang” to China
ReligionsRaghu Vira’s 1955 visit to China stands as a significant chapter in the history of contemporary Sino-Indian Buddhist cultural exchange. The diary he kept in Hindi offers a detailed record of this journey.
Huiyuan Bian
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Between Buddhism and Science, Between Mind and Body
Religions, 2014 Buddhism has been seen, at least since the Theravāda reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as particularly compatible with Western science.
Geoffrey Samuel
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