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Cultural Identity and Religious Practice: Challenges for Tibetan Buddhists in China [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right protected by international law and many national constitutions. In China, the Constitution guarantees freedom of religious belief, but the implementation of this right, particularly for Tibetan Buddhists ...
Uliana Zhambaeva, Bair Zhambaev, Kairat Osmonaliev, Bakyt Kakeshov   +3 more
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Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

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
wiley   +1 more source

A Tibetan window into the twentieth-century Himalayan world

European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
This article examines interconnections between parts of the Indian Himalaya and Tibet in the period encompassing the escape of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to India in 1959.
Swati Chawla
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Self-Representation and Cultural Expectations: Yogi Chen and Religious Practices of Life-Writing

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2016
Explores the differences in self-representation as found in the autobiographical writings of Yogi Chen, Billy Graham, and the Dalai Lama. While the latter two are widely recognized in American popular religious culture, the former is virtually invisible ...
Richard K. Payne
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The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 293-306, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 958-977, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Access to forests, farming land and the Citarum river is limited in Tarumajaya; furthermore, many do not own their own housing and are dependent on the public and private landowners in the area. The region of Tarumajaya faces significant challenges in access to crucial resources such as forests, farming land and the Citarum river, leading to a
Rudolf Wirawan, Janet Judy McIntyre‐Mills, R. Riswanda R. Riswanda, Ida Widianingsih, Indra Gunawan   +4 more
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Compaixão e medicina centrada na pessoa: convergências entre o Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso e Ian McWhinney

Revista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade, 2016
O método clínico centrado na pessoa (MCCP) é uma proposta de reorientação da prática clínica que identifica um distanciamento, na medicina contemporânea, da experiência subjetiva e qualitativa dos pacientes.
Leandro David Wenceslau, Eberhart Portocarrero-Gross, Marcelo Marcos Piva Demarzo   +2 more
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Buddhism in Australia: A Maturing, Multidisciplinary Field of Inquiry

Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT In 2012, Anna Halafoff, Ruth Fitzpatrick and Kim Lam applied Paul Numrich's framework to the study of Buddhism in so‐called Australia, to determine if it constituted a distinct field of study. They concluded that it was an emerging field, according to Numrich's three categories of specialisation, organisation and publication.
Anna Halafoff, Ruth Fitzpatrick, Sioh‐Yang Tan   +2 more
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Unlocking the Tyranny of Modern Thinking: Keys From Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Buddhism

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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A Systemic Reflection On Why Biology Is Best : E(s) ∞ mc2 Sentience, Consciousness and Transcendance?

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 78-82, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The short essay makes a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. The voiceless need to be protected by extending solidarity on the basis of sentience—a normative plea, but also on the basis of ...
J. J. McIntyre‐Mills
wiley   +1 more source