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Rethinking the Climate Crisis Here and Now: Mahāyāna Buddhism, Engi Relationality, and the Familiar Pitfalls in Japanese and Taiwanese pro-Nuclear Energy Narratives

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations
Climate inaction occurs partly because the ‘problem’ is often perceived as spatially and temporally distant. Contemporary Japanese and Taiwanese pro-nuclear energy narratives stress the necessity of nuclear energy for solving carbon emissions and energy ...
NAOFUMI YAMADA   +2 more
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Avataṃsaka Meditation in Khotan: Samādhi, Visualization, and the Cult of Buddha Images

open access: yesReligions
This article examines Khotan’s role in the transmission and reception of Avataṃsaka/Huayan Buddhism, arguing that the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra’s exceptional prestige and royal protection in Khotan provided favourable conditions for the circulation—and ...
Imre Hamar
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Recontextualizing Nanyang Buddhism Based on the Guangzhou Guangxiao Si

open access: yesReligions
This study examined the recontextualization of Nanyang Buddhism and its practices at the Guangzhou Guangxiao Si, considering their adaptation to the requirements of contemporary urban communities in China and Southeast Asia, as well as local cultural ...
Yi Miao   +3 more
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Architecture, Devotion, and Power: The Kalasan Temple and Buddhist Legitimation under the Śailendra Dynasty

open access: yesJurnal Kawistara
This study analyzes Kalasan Temple as a religious and political entity that articulated and  mobilized Mahayana Buddhist ideology to bolster dynastic legitimacy during the Śailendra dynasty  in eighth-century Java.
Tomy Wijaya   +2 more
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Towards a Tradition of Home Prayers in Kalmyk Buddhism: the Specificity of Texts

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article is devoted to the study of the tradition of home prayers of Kalmyk Buddhist laymen. On the basis of the data on the traditions of Theravada and Mahayana, the author comes to the conclusion that the laity’s tradition of prayer on special days ...
G. Korneev
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