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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Metamps(i)pirical: Believing in Reincarnation with Reason as a Cyclical ‘Lie’ in Halef
FilmvisioThroughout history, humanity has questioned the meaning of its existence and sought different answers to these questions. Every living thing will taste death one day, and the mind can sometimes leave people helpless despite death and the vastness of the ...
Aleyna Zaim
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 67-75., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Choong‐Shik Yoo
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A Study on the Nianfo 念佛 Practice in the Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna
ReligionsThe Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna 大乘起信論 has generated over 300 commentaries, yet research on its practice section, particularly nianfo practice 念佛修行, remains remarkably limited. This study examines interpretive differences in the nianfo practice section
Jiyun Kim
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The Billionaires’ Road to Disappearance in Don Delillo’s Novels Cosmopolis and Zero K [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2017 This paper deals with a later theme in Don DeLillo's fiction, which can be summed up as the wealthy American financier's passage: these characters' evolution presented in the two novels mentioned above can be approximately compared to the Gaussian ...
Radu Surdulescu
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims This study qualitatively explored psychological change processes as described by participants and therapists within a phase 2a clinical trial evaluating the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of a single dose of intranasal 5‐methoxy‐N,N‐dimethyltryptamine (5‐MeO‐DMT; BPL‐003) administered alongside psychological
Mathieu Seynaeve +6 more
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One Life/Many Lives: An Internal Hindu-Christian Dialogue
Religions, 2018 This essay consists of philosophical and comparative theological reflections on the topic of rebirth, or reincarnation. Informed by the work of William James, John Hick, and Francis X.
Jeffery D. Long
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