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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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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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Japanese Buddhist journals as a means of supporting missionary activities in the late 19^th – early 20^th centuries

Японские исследования
In the late 19th – early 20th centuries, Japanese Buddhism was going through difficult times. Institutional crisis, loss of governmental support, competition with Shinto and Christianity, persecution caused by both political and social factors ...
E. O. Novoselova
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On the Ontology of Composites in Abhidharma Buddhism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 679-693, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Abhidharma Buddhism maintains that the only ultimately real (paramārtha) entities in the universe are dharmas, which are simples. What then is the ontological status of composites on this theory? One possibility is that Abhidharma Buddhists deny the reality of composites.
Monima Chadha, Shaun Nichols
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Mahayana Buddhism and Gross National Happiness in Bhutan [PDF]

, 2015
In 1972, the fourth King of Bhutan announced that Gross National Happiness was more important than Gross Domestic Product. In this paper, the basic conceptual features of Mahayana Buddhism are discussed particularly as they relate to the Mahayana ...
Givel, Michael
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Lurching Towards a Canon: Mahāyāna Sūtras in Khotanese Garb

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021
The concept of canon centers around authority. Assertions about canonicity both reflect and reshape the structure and the source of authority. In a Buddhist context, processes of canonization are highly fluid and complex, shedding light on the socio ...
Ruixuan Chen
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Manufacturing Japanese Reformation: Kamakura Buddhism in Early Showa Historiography

Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Few comparative frameworks in the historiography of Japanese religion have proven more durable, or more contested, than the analogy between the “New Buddhism” of the Kamakura period and the Protestant Reformation. This article traces the construction and consolidation of this analogy from its first systematic articulation by the historian Hara
Orion Klautau
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Lexical prediction mechanisms in Brazilian Portuguese: addressing methodological issues

, 2020
AMLaP 2020 poster by Neemias Filho and Mahayana ...
Mahayana Godoy, Neemias Silva de Souza Filho   +1 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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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
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