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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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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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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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Emperor Wu of Liang’s Reinterpretation and Elevation of the Precepts as the Bodhisattva Ideal

Religions
This 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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The Virtue of Patience

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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Japanese Occupation Government Policy in Indonesia on Culture and Literature: A Case Study of Asia Raja Newspaper (1942-1945)

Humaniora, 2013
There are three views are shown in the movement of Indonesia in responding to the arrival of Japan to Indonesia. First, they welcome and support the arrival of Japan considering the success of Japan drove the Dutch.
Maman S Mahayana
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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.
This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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From Marginalization to Localization: Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism’s Adaptive Strategies in Theravāda Myanmar

Religions
Tension 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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Do religious and cultural considerations militate against body donation? An overview and a Christian perspective

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 17, Issue 8, Page 1586-1595, November 2024.
Abstract The development of anatomy as a scientific undertaking appears to have left little room for religious and cultural input into the conduct of anatomical investigations. This has been brought to the fore by questionnaires regarding the willingness or otherwise of individuals to donate their bodies for dissection, with higher levels of ...
David Gareth Jones
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From mandala to flowchart: Managerial governmentality and the evidentiary technologies of Indonesia's Reformasi

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 290-319, August 2024.
Abstract With the dissolution of an authoritarian regime, novel semiotic technologies are mobilized in the service of producing new political imaginaries. Through what visual and discursive practices can “democracy” be made visible? How can “good governance” be convincingly attested?
Aurora Donzelli
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