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Building the Largest Female Buddhist Monastery in Contemporary China: Master Rurui between Continuity and Change

, 2020
Born in 1957, Rurui 如瑞, the abbess of Pushou Monastery 普寿寺 on Mount Wutai, in Shanxi province, belongs to the generation of Buddhists that became monastics after the opening up of China in the 1980s and came to leadership afterwards. She has been building Pushou Monastery, and the Mount Wutai Buddhist Institute for Nuns (Zhongguo Wutaishan nizhong ...
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KYLTOVSKAYA TERRITORY: FROM FEMALE MONASTERY TO CHILDREN’S TOWN FOR STRETLESS

Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University, 2020
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“Within the Borders of a Monastery” by Ekaterine Gabashvili: The Representation of Female Desire and the Feminine

Proceedings of The Global Conference on Women’s Studies
Within the Borders of a Monastery is a story by Georgian feminist writer and activist Ekaterine Gabashvili (1851-1938). The goal of the paper is to explore the representation of female desire in the story. As Georgia was the part of the USSR, the humanities in Georgia were ideologized – the scholars would analyze literary texts from strictly Marxist ...
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Mother of God, Mother of Christianity: The Development of the Marian Tradition in Early Modern Japan

, 2019
The Christian figure of the Virgin Mary, first introduced as Jesus’ mother in the Bible, has since been repeatedly reinterpreted in various roles and imagery through her incorporation into different cultures. This project analyses the historical adoption
Keller, Alaina
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Shaping the monastic subject by the materiality of everyday life : an ethnography of the Orthodox female monastery of Solan

, 2022
Cette thèse est l’aboutissement d’une enquête ethnographique menée au sein de la communauté féminine orthodoxe de Solan (Gard). L’objectif est de montrer les manières grâce auxquelles les moniales se construisent chaque jour par les relations créées avec leur environnement matériel.
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First and second doses of Covishield vaccine provided high level of protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in highly transmissible settings: results from a prospective cohort of participants residing in congregate facilities in India. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health, 2022
Tsundue T, Namdon T, Tsewang T, Topgyal S, Dolma T, Lhadon D, Choetso T, Woesal T, Yangkyi T, Gupta A, Peters D, Paster Z, Phunkyi D, Sadutshang TD, Chaisson RE, Dorjee K.   +15 more
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Community-based participatory research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among Tibetan Buddhist monks in South India: The Lifestyle Assessment and Monastic Aging Study (LAMAS). [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Namdul T, MacLehose R, Pasang T, Madesclaire O, Gyatso G, Henderson A, Buchwald D.   +6 more
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Prevalence and factors associated with tuberculosis infection (TBI) among residents of a monastery situated in a high-TB burden area: A cross-sectional study, Sikkim, India. [PDF]

PLoS One
Siddiqui MK, Khan S, Bhutia R, Nair V, Rai A, Gurung N, Yamphel T, Dadul PK, Kerongi DS, Bhutia KD, Pradhan J, Khati K, Nair SA, Mannan S, Rade KK, Gupta D, Malhotra P, Kawamura LM, Dhawan S, Mohmmed A.   +19 more
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Religious celibacy brings inclusive fitness benefits. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2022
Micheletti AJC, Ge E, Zhou L, Chen Y, Zhang H, Du J, Mace R.   +6 more
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Interrelations of Leptin and Interleukin-6 in Vitamin D Deficient and Overweight Orthodox Nuns from Northern Greece: A Pilot Study. [PDF]

Nutrients
Karras SN, Michalakis K, Katsiki N, Kypraiou M, Vlastos A, Anemoulis M, Koukoulis G, Mouslech Z, Talidis F, Tzimagiorgis G, Haitoglou C, Georgios Μ, Papanikolaou EG, Dimitrios S, Georgopoulos N.   +14 more
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