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Trickster-Like Teachings in Tibetan Buddhism: Shortcuts towards Destroying Illusions [PDF]

, 2018
Trickster-like Dharma teachings in Tibetan Buddhism behave as a kind of shortcuts in the approach to leading people along the path of enlightenment. This essay collects three such teachings of different levels towards destroying illusions, i.e., Buddha’s
ma, Z.
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Strange Bedfellows: Meditations on the Indispensable Virtues of Confusion, Mindfulness and Humor in the Neuroscientific and Cognitive Study of Esoteric and Contemplative Traditions1

Religions, 2016
Several recent publications in the study of esoteric traditions have drawn together insights from scholars of religions and philosophy, contemplative communities, metaphor and conceptual blend theories, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and physical ...
Jeffrey C. Ruff
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Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 258-267, August 2025.
Abstract This introduction to the special issue examines various approaches to understanding religious change in Asia. It revisits models for religious change—particularly rupture and repair, both featured in prior TAJA issues—and acknowledges their usefulness while also highlighting their limitations.
Kendall R. Marchman
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Tantric religion and social change

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 268-279, August 2025.
Abstract During the period between the seventh and 11th centuries, several religious innovations occurred in Indic religions (which I refer to anachronistically as ‘Hinduism’). In particular, during this period, we see the rise of tantric traditions based on a new revelation of texts, some of whose followers regarded themselves as transcending the ...
Gavin Flood
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Antonio de Montserrat - The Silk Road and the Secret Paths of Tantra

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
This article presents the biography of Antonio de Montserrat with the aim of situating him within Buddhist critical thought as the first Westerner initiated into tantric philosophy and a key figure in its introduction to the West through the Society of ...
Oscar R. Gomez
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Mechanism of Tantra in the Light of Buddhism: A Means to Enlightenment (Society for New Testament Studies) [PDF]

, 2018
Tantra means knowledge of methodical and mechanical investigational-technique through which we develop our consciousness and faculties of consciousness. It is also a process through which we can able to be realized our inherent spiritual powers. The term
Behera, Rajiba, Cm, Shimi
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The Singer of Tibet: Shabkar (1781-1851), the “Inescapable Nation,” and Buddhist Universalism [PDF]

, 2018
This paper examines the concept of ‘Tibet (Tib. bod)’ in the spiritual autobiography of the celebrated Tibetan Buddhist author, Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdröl (1781–1851).
Pang, Rachel H
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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.
This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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From mandala to flowchart: Managerial governmentality and the evidentiary technologies of Indonesia's Reformasi

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 290-319, August 2024.
Abstract With the dissolution of an authoritarian regime, novel semiotic technologies are mobilized in the service of producing new political imaginaries. Through what visual and discursive practices can “democracy” be made visible? How can “good governance” be convincingly attested?
Aurora Donzelli
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Performing anti‐colonial military identities in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, 1943–1945: War, diasporic women and decolonisation

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 602-619, July 2024.
Abstract The processes by which diasporic colonised Indian women were constituted as anti‐colonial military subjects offer a valuable corrective to the neglected role of colonised women in the scholarship on decolonisation and war. This article addresses how female officers of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment staged and performed anti‐colonial gendered ...
Shompa Lahiri
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