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Soil health and community well‐being: A framework of intangible outcomes of sustainable agriculture
Journal of Environmental Quality, Volume 54, Issue 5, Page 1214-1229, September/October 2025.Abstract Social outcomes of agricultural practice adoption are often excluded from adoption studies, particularly outcomes related to community well‐being. In large part, this is because assessing the social well‐being outcomes of sustainable agricultural practices lacks a widely accepted framework.
Claire Friedrichsen +3 more
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About the Image and Cult of Buddha Maitreya in the Culture of Kalmyks
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article is devoted to studying of an image and a cult of Buddha Maytreya in the culture of Kalmyks, also to the analysis of the unique icon «Buddha Maytreya» from National Museum of Republic of Kalmykia.
G. Nurova
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CERPENIS SUFISTIK: MOHAMMAD FUDOLI ZAINI
IBDA': Jurnal Kebudayaan Islam, 2011 This article describes Mohammad Fudoli Zaini’s work by analyzing its content. His work figured world-in as a counter to literature paradigm world-outside. The basic of world-in comes from the conscience, based on obedience and religiosity. His world-in
Maman S. Mahayana
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The changing Buddhist landscape: Anxiety and the development of Pure Land Buddhism in medieval China
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 280-291, August 2025.Abstract The introduction of Pure Land practice and belief into medieval China changed the Buddhist landscape. Pure Land Buddhism offered a new pathway and new methods for achieving enlightenment. However, these changes were also a significant source of anxiety among the early community of Pure Land practitioners.
Kendall R. Marchman
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Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 7, Page 629-641, July 2025.Abstract International medical students at I‐Shou University's School of Medicine for International Students (SMIS) receive Taiwan government‐funded scholarships to cultivate skilled and compassionate medical professionals from the Caribbean, Central America, and the Pacific Islands.
Hsiang‐Chin Hsu, Tzu‐Ching Sung
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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Emperor Wu of Liang’s Reinterpretation and Elevation of the Precepts as the Bodhisattva Ideal
ReligionsThis paper examines Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty (r. 502–549) and his efforts to reform the Buddhist saṅgha through the establishment of the bodhisattva precepts and the proclamation of the Prohibition of Alcohol and Meat.
Yoon Kyung Cho
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From Emptiness to Interconnectedness: Identity and Dependence in Chinese Buddhism
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2025.ABSTRACT “Everything is interconnected” is a central theme of Chinese Buddhism. This article examines how four prominent Chinese Buddhist schools—Tiantai 天台, Sanlun 三論, Huayan 華嚴, and Chan 禪—engaged with interconnectedness during the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581–907 CE), the golden age of Chinese Buddhism.
Li Kang
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Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.ABSTRACT Many traditions and worldviews have held that patience is a virtue—a habit that is morally praiseworthy. In this essay we orient readers to recent work on what patience is and what patience does. What are the distinctive markers of the disposition of patience? And why have people regarded it as so important to living well?
Anne Jeffrey, Timothy Pawl
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ReligionsTension between the Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhist schools has persisted since early Buddhist times and remains a complex issue. However, recent decades have seen growing joint religious activities and cultural exchanges between followers of these ...
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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