Universities and the Right to Think in Africa
Studies of academic freedom have mostly focussed on Europe and North America. Yet, any consideration of the societal crises in Africa cannot ignore the collapse of its universities and the very concept of academic freedom on the continent. Much had been expected of the universities.
Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe
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Grand Union between Tibet and Mongolia: Unfulfilled Dream of the 13th Dalai Lama
Since the late sixteenth century when Altan Khan of Tumed in Southern Mongolia adopted the Yellow Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism and supported it as the common faith of the Mongol people, the teaching and discipline of Buddhism greatly influenced the ...
Tsedenbamba Batbayar
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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia
Abstract Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations.
Joseph Bristley
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A sword, a suit of armour and a quiver to be presented to Nicholas II [PDF]
The article deals with the objects from the collection of the Russian museum of ethnography, which were presented on behalf of Dalai Lama XIII to Nicholas II on the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.
Elizaveta I. Neratova
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Portrait of the Dalai Lama speaking at the National Press Club, Canberra, 7 May 1992, 4 [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer from accompanying documentation.; Part of collection: The Dalai Lama speaking at the National Press Club, Canberra, 7 May 1992.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic ...
Seselja, Loui, 1948-
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Portrait of the Dalai Lama speaking at the National Press Club, Canberra, 7 May 1992, 1 [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer from accompanying documentation.; Part of collection: The Dalai Lama speaking at the National Press Club, Canberra, 7 May 1992.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic ...
Seselja, Loui, 1948-
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Tibetan Buddhism in Russia and Mongolia in the Early 21st Century
This article attempts to provide a comparative analysis of the development of Buddhism in Mongolia and Russia over the last 20 years. The paper argues that the processes of restoration of the Buddhist sangha (Pali/Sanskrit ‘assembly, association’, i.e ...
R. T. Sabirov
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Portrait of the Dalai Lama speaking at the National Press Club, Canberra, 7 May 1992, 2 [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer from accompanying documentation.; Part of collection: The Dalai Lama speaking at the National Press Club, Canberra, 7 May 1992.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic ...
Seselja, Loui, 1948-
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BUDDHISM AND SCIENCE: HOW FAR CAN THE DIALOGUE PROCEED?
On the stage of the religion‐and‐science dialogue, Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism, is a late arrival. However, thanks primarily to the long‐standing personal interest of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan tradition he represents has come to engage ...
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Portrait of the Dalai Lama speaking at the National Press Club, Canberra, 7 May 1992, 3 [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer from accompanying documentation.; Part of collection: The Dalai Lama speaking at the National Press Club, Canberra, 7 May 1992.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic ...
Seselja, Loui, 1948-
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