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Secular life's behaviours and debauchery among nuns: An unedited homily by the patriarch of Constantinople Kallistos I. [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2015
In the present study, the homily 'Oμιλία πρòς μοναζούσας• εỉς τò pητòν τον θείου Παύλου, τό, ενσχημόνως περιπατεĩτε by the patriarch of Constantinople Kallistos I, given by two mss. codices of Mt.
Paidas Constantine
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La relation entre sœurs et malades dans les hôpitaux parisiens au XIXe siècle, une relation de soin ?

open access: yesHistoire, Médecine et Santé, 2015
Administration registers and rare writings from patients, doctors, or studies allow us to grasp the everyday relationship between nuns and the sick in Parisian hospitals in the 19th century.
Anne Jusseaume
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On the Question of “Discipline” (Vinaya) and Nuns in Theravāda Buddhism

open access: yesReligions, 2019
This article centers on the relationship of rules (nīti) to the monastic form of life of contemporary Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka. A genealogy of scholarship focusing on the rules of Buddhist monks and nuns has led scholars to affirm a clear-cut ...
Nirmala S. Salgado
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Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This paper examines how the Buddhist revival, the Chan revival, and recent popularity of transnational meditation practices have facilitated Chinese women practicing Buddhist meditation in contemporary China.
Ngar-Sze Lau
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Motyw mniszki w twórczości Stefana Grabińskiego

open access: yesLitteraria Copernicana, 2013
Nuns in the works of Stefan GrabińskiAbstractThe author of the article focuses on the motive of nuns that frequently appears in Stefan Grabiński’s works.
Anna Kruszczyńska
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The Embodiment of Buddhist History: Interpretive Methods and Models of Sāsana Decline in Burmese Debates about Female Higher Ordination

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The mid-twentieth century was celebrated in Theravāda civilizations as the halfway point in the five-thousand-year history of the Buddha’s dispensation, the sāsana.
Tony Scott
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Pratiques de l’espace hospitalier par les religieuses au XIXe siècle dans les hôpitaux parisiens : préserver un entre-soi religieux et féminin ?

open access: yesGenre & Histoire, 2016
Separated from the world because of their religious vows, hospital nuns were nevertheless in daily contact with men and lay people, be they patients, hospital staff, or priests.
Anne Jusseaume
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“The British coloureds of Sophiatown”: The case of St. Joseph’s Home for coloured children, 1923-1998

open access: yesContree, 2017
During apartheid South Africa (1948-1994), black, coloured, and Indian children did not enjoy the same privileges as their peers of European descent – because of racial discrimination.
Charmaine T. Hlongwane
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Four Chinese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Anxiety in Their Colophons to the Da banniepan jing 大般涅槃經

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Many scholars of Buddhism believe that Buddhists (particularly Mahāyāna Buddhists) regularly reproduce scriptures for merit in general, regardless of their content.
Ruifeng Chen
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An Unusual Case of Collagenous Gastritis: Incidental Finding in a Patient Presenting with Dysphagia

open access: yesCase Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine, 2019
Collagenous gastritis is a condition characterized by subepithelial deposition of collagen in the gastric mucosa. This condition is rare, with less than 100 cases reported in the literature. Patients with collagenous gastritis typically present with pain
Chiu-Hsiang Liao   +2 more
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