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The Scripture on the Five Emperors in the Five Directions: Evidence of the Spread of Taoism Amongst the Naxi

SAGE Open, 2023
As residents of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, the Naxi people have their own native religion, which manifests a mixture of indigenous beliefs with Tibetan Bon and Buddhism.
Chunfeng Zhang, Jianjun Zhu
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Genomic formation of Tibeto-Burman speaking populations in Guizhou, Southwest China

BMC Genomics, 2023
Sino-Tibetan is the most prominent language family in East Asia. Previous genetic studies mainly focused on the Tibetan and Han Chinese populations.
Jinwen Chen, Han Zhang, Meiqing Yang, Rui Wang, Hongling Zhang, Zheng Ren, Qiyan Wang, Yubo Liu, Jing Chen, Jingyan Ji, Jing Zhao, Guanglin He, Jianxin Guo, Kongyang Zhu, Xiaomin Yang, Hao Ma, Chuan-Chao Wang, Jiang Huang   +17 more
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Typology of Chinese Languages: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Languages
Of the world’s major language groups, the Sinitic (Chinese) branch of the Sino-Tibetan family stands out for the profound disconnect between its popular perception and its linguistic reality [...]
Umberto Ansaldo, Pui Yiu Szeto
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Preparatory Guidelines for Meditation in Pre-Modern Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Traditions

Religions
This study offers a comparative analysis of preparatory practices in Buddhist meditation, focusing on the Tiantai tradition of medieval China and the Nyingma tradition of tenth-century Tibet.
Ching-Hsuan Mei
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Levels of Germinable Seed in Topsoil and Yak Dung on an Alpine Meadow on the North-East Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2013
In order to clarify the interactive mechanism between grazing yak and alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, our study assessed seed density (by species) in the topsoil of alpine meadow with different grazing intensities in the Tianzhu area, north-
Xiao-jun YU, Chang-lin XU, Fang WANG, Zhan-huan SHANG, Rui-jun LONG   +4 more
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Archaeological evidence for initial migration of Neolithic Proto Sino-Tibetan speakers from Yellow River valley to Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Liu L, Chen J, Wang J, Zhao Y, Chen X.
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Geolinguistics and Sino-Tibetan: An introduction

, 2023
Geolinguistics is expected to contribute to the diachronic study of the Sino-Tibetan language family, which typologically shows significant diversity across regions. This article introduces concepts, methods, and recent results of geolinguistic study.
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Vajravārāhī in Khara Khoto and Prajñāpāramitā in East Java: Connected by Pearl Ornaments

Religions
This research, situated in the geographical and historical context of the Tangut and East Java, uncovers a significant aspect of the evolution of Buddhist art styles.
Lesley S Pullen
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Changing the retention properties of catchments and their influence on runoff under climate change

Environmental Research Letters, 2018
Many studies on drought consider precipitation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) impacts. However, catchment water retention is a factor affecting the interception of precipitation and slowing down runoff which also plays a critical role in ...
Hui Yang, Shilong Piao, Chris Huntingford, Philippe Ciais, Yue Li, Tao Wang, Shushi Peng, Yuting Yang, Dawen Yang, Jinfeng Chang   +9 more
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Isotopic partitioning of gaseous nitrogen emissions of natural terrestrial ecosystems

Environmental Research Letters
We estimated the emissions of different forms of gaseous nitrogen (N) from natural terrestrial ecosystems using newly upscaled soil δ ^15 N maps, data-constrained gas partitioning models, and incorporating the previously missing N input flux from rock ...
Maoyuan Feng, Gang Liu, Yilong Wang, Jinfeng Chang, Shushi Peng   +4 more
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