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The modeling pastes of the monumental terracruda sculpture of the Silk Roads: Archaeometric study of the Tepe Narenj and Qol‐e‐tut examples (Kabul, Afghanistan)

Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 76-99, February 2024.
Abstract This paper presents the results of the mineralogical, petrographic and chemical study of different archaeological samples related to terracruda sculptures and other elements that were part of the architectural decoration of the Buddhist sites of Tepe Narenj and Qol‐e‐tut (Kabul, Afghanistan; fifth to 11th centuries CE).
Monica López‐Prat, Raffaella De Luca, Alessandra Pecci, Simona Mileto, Sudipa Ray Bandyopadhyay, Andrea Bloise, Adriano Guido, Mara Cipriani, Carla Lancelotti, Begoña Carrascosa, Noor Agha Noori, José‐Manuel Simón‐Cortés, Domenico Miriello   +12 more
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Anthony Tribe, Tantric Buddhist Practice in India: Vilāsavajra’s commentary on the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti, A critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1–5 with introductions, London–New York, Routledge (Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions), 2016

, 2021
Tanemura Ryugen. Anthony Tribe, Tantric Buddhist Practice in India: Vilāsavajra’s commentary on the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti, A critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1–5 with introductions, London–New York, Routledge (Routledge Studies in ...
Tanemura, Ryugen
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Tantric Buddhist Art: Through an Integral Lens [PDF]

, 2018
Tantric Buddhist art is a very diverse and unique form of art. Its main goals are to reveal the nature of reality by showing the perceiver that there is a more expansive and actualized being than the one currently experienced.
Haven, Rien T.
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The Art of Imagination at the Intersection of Pramāṇa and Samaya: Normative Epistemology and Tantric Ethics in Early Philosophical Vajrayāna

Journal of Contemplative Studies
The practice of Vajrayāna is predicated on a worldview different from that which frames classical Buddhist teachings, such as the Four Noble Truths. While classical theory and praxis are structured by the inexorability of dissatisfaction, suffering, and ...
Dominic D. Z. Sur
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David b. Gray. The cakrasamvara tantra (the discourse of śrī heruka): a study and annotated translation [PDF]

, 2008
Though a relatively young series, the Treasury of Buddhist Sciences has already published several valuable translations of works of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and promises many more volumes for the future. The volume under review, the publication of which was
Szanto, Peter
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A Cognitive Approach to Tantric Language

, 2016
By applying the contemporary theories of schema, metonymy, metaphor, and conceptual blending, I argue in this paper that salient cognitive categories facilitate a deeper analysis of Tantric language.
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
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EPILOGUE: Currents of convergence—Religious change in Asian contexts

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 318-320, August 2025.
J. Derrick Lemons
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Exploring India's Bridge Position: Contemporary Globalized Yoga in Fact and Fiction

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 435-436, June 2025.
Suzanne Newcombe
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Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation

, 2016
Tantric traditions in both Buddhism and Hinduism are thriving throughout Asia and in Asian diasporic communities around the world, yet they have been largely ignored by Western scholars until now.
Gray, David B., Overbey, Ryan Richard
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Filling in the Blanks: The Material Semiotics of Visual Meditation in the Buddhist Qizil Yoga Manual

Religions
This paper analyses the ‘grammar’, or rules, of meditation practice in the c. 5th-century Qizil Yoga Manual (QYM). The QYM was found in Kucha, a significant location in the Silk Road trade network.
Karen O’Brien-Kop
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