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The variety of Buddhist paths in Konjaku Monogatari-shū
The article summarizes the results of the religious-studies and historical-philosophical research based on the Konjaku monogatari-shū (1120s). This largest set of didactic setsuwa tales provides an encyclopedic picture of Buddhism as it was known in ...
M. V. Babkova +2 more
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Why Was Original Buddhism for Monks Only?
Early Buddhism was a monastic religion: the Buddha’s disciples were mendicant monks. However, there are many laypeople today who are practising Buddhists, meditating and following the eightfold Buddhist path towards nirvāṇa.This paper investigates how ...
Ferenc Ruzsa
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Psychopathology of Time in Brain Disease and Schizophrenia
The literature on disturbance of time-sense in brain disease and schizophrenia is reviewed and the subjective experience of altered time-sense reported by 45 out of 350 personally interviewed schizophrenics is analyzed.
John Cutting, Herta Silzer
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A Study on Pei Yue and His Poems Written to Monks
Pei Yue 裴説 is a poet who flourished in the Late Tang (618–907) and Five Dynasties (907–960). The historical literature contains relatively limited information about his life, and his poems handed down to this day are also rare. To date, he has not been a
Ludi Wang, Yongfeng Huang
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Legislation of the byzantine emperors of the 8th — early 10th centuries on monks: traditions and innovations [PDF]
The article studies the legislation on monks and monasteries of the Byzantine emperors of the 8th to the early 10th centuries. Most of the legal codes under consideration are revision of the corpus of Emperor Justinian I.
Anna Vankova
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Body Image Disorders: Comparison between Unilateral Hemisphere Damage and Schizophrenia
The records of a consecutive series of 100 schizophrenics were examined for any mention of body image disorders. These were present in 45 patients, the most common varieties being anomalous bodily experiences.
J. Cutting
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La construction des climats viticoles en Bourgogne, la relation du vin au lieu au Moyen Âge
Climats is the technical term for portions of vineyards delimited and named according to specific wine qualities. They arose from the seventeenth century onwards as a specific terroir meaning in Burgundy.
Jean-Pierre Garcia
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Monasticism has had spiritual, socioeconomic and cultural significance since its inception as a religious order in Egypt during the 3rd C. Although it is viewed in the broad spectrum of the social and economic arena, monks’ involvement in the economy and
Abinet Abebe Hayleyesus
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The article explores how the passion for storytelling, obvious in Cistercian exempla collections, corresponded with the efforts of white monks to rigorously observe the silence, as prescribed by the Rule of St Benedict.
Victoria Smirnova
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Complex phenological responses to climate warming trends? Lessons from history
Responsiveness of Lepidoptera phenology to climate has been detected in a number of species during the current trend in global warming. There is still a question of whether climate signals would be evident in historical data. In this paper we examine the
Tim H. SPARKS +2 more
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