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Analysis of a Unique Painting Presenting Gandantegchenlin Monastery in Ulaanbaatar around 1850. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A cikk az ulánbátori Gandantegchenlin kolostor 1850 körüli egyik festményét mutatja ...
Ernst, Richard, Teleki, Krisztina
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The Problem of the Buddha’s Short Lifespan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The Buddha's lifespan is discussed in many Mahāyāna sūtras and śāstras. An analysis of these texts shows that it became a problem when the Mahāyānists emphasized more and more the merit of the Buddha as a result of Bodhisattva practice.
Guang, X, 廣興
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The uses of light: visuality, metaphor and rhetorical strategy in the Daśabhūmikasūtra [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The Daśabhūmikasūtra has a number of distinctly visual components. However, how, and to what ends, imagery functions in this text is less clear. Taking a single narrative episode at the beginning of the text as its main focus this paper offers an ...
Newton, Nic
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Beings, non-beings, and Buddhas: Contrasting notions of tathāgatagarbha in the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta and *Mahābherī Sūtra [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article concerns a little studied text of the Mahāyānist tathāgatagarbha literature, namely the *Mahābherī Sūtra, and its relation to other Indian texts which advance forms of tathāgatagarbha doctrine.
Jones, Christopher
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The Sudden Awakening / Gradual Cultivation Schema. A Somaesthetic Approach to Jinul’s Thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The aim of this paper’s presentation is to examine the Sudden Awakening-Gradual Cultivation Schema from a somaesthetic approach to show Jinul’s teachings as an embodied and highly conscious art of living. For that, I start analyzing what Jinul defined as
Luque Moya, Gloria
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Controversy over Buddhist Ethical Reform: A Secular Critique of Clerical Authority in the Tibetan Blogosphere [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article explores the online debate in the Tibetan-language blogosphere over a burgeoning ethical reform movement. Annually, whole villages and clans in nomadic areas along the eastern reaches of the Tibetan plateau are committing to a newly ...
Gayley, Holly
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Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
My dissertation offers a revisionary history of the early development of Chöd, a philosophy and practice that became integral to all Tibetan Buddhist schools.
Sorensen, Michelle Janet
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The Shingon Ajikan, Meditation on the Syllable ‘A’: An analysis of components and development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper examines what has been described as the most basic and essential element of Kūkai’s (774-835) religio-philosophical system (Yamasaki 1988:190), meditation on the Sanskrit syllable ‘A’.
Green, Ronald S.
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“There Are No Dharmas Apart from the Dharma-Sphere”: Shakya Chokden’s Interpretation of the Dharma-Sphere [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
As is well known to contemporary scholarship and demonstrated by the works contained in the present volume, the Tibetan term zhentong (gzhan stong, being empty of other) refers not to any one unanimous view or system of thought but to a wide variety of ...
Komarovski, Yaroslav
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