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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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A Mindful Moral Compass for Twenty-First Century Leadership: The Noble Eightfold Path [PDF]

, 2017
Marques reviews contemporary leaders in business, human rights advocacy, and social entrepreneur circles as examples of individuals who have channeled their efforts to guide their careers in a sustainable and morally responsible manner within the context
Marques, Joan
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Is mindfulness buddhist? (and why it matters) [PDF]

, 2017
Modern exponents of mindfulness meditation promote the therapeutic effects of “bare attention”—a sort of non-judgmental, non-discursive attending to the moment-to-moment flow of consciousness.
Sharf, RH
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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
wiley   +1 more source

Is mindfulness Buddhist? (and why it matters). [PDF]

, 2015
Modern exponents of mindfulness meditation promote the therapeutic effects of "bare attention"--a sort of non-judgmental, non-discursive attending to the moment-to-moment flow of consciousness.
Ahn J., Brown G. W., Cousins L. S., Cox C., Forman R. K. C., Gethin R., Gombrich R., Gregory P. N., Griffiths P. J., Griffiths P. J., Gyatso J., Houtman G., Hsiao B. H., Hubbard J., Jordt I., Katz S. T., Katz S. T., Katz S. T., Kirchner T., Kuan Tse-fu, LeVine S., Lopez D. S., Lopez D. S., McMahan D. L., Nyanaponika, Nyanaponika, Obeyesekere G., Poceski M., Proudfoot W., Robert H. Sharf, Sharf R. H., Sharf R. H., Taylor J. B., van Schaik S., Varela F. J., Yanagida S., Zhang Y.   +36 more
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Caste as a Social Kind

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source

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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Moral Practice in Late Stoicism and Buddhist Meditation [PDF]

, 2017
I argue in this essay that Stoic philosophers in the late Greco-Roman period utilized philosophical exercises and spiritual technologies similar in form to a meditative exercise currently practiced in Buddhism.
GOERGER, Michael
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