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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Abhiṣekanirukti in the context of Buddhist tantric literature: Conceptual features and functional usage of the treatise

open access: yes, 2018
The publication is focused on the Abhiṣekanirukti, a Buddhist tantric treatise of the eleventh century composed by Sujayaśrīgupta. The treatise is viewed in the context of Indian Buddhist Tantric literature and ritual practice.
Bushuev, Evgeny S.
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From mandala to flowchart: Managerial governmentality and the evidentiary technologies of Indonesia's Reformasi

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Preparatory Guidelines for Meditation in Pre-Modern Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Traditions

open access: yesReligions
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
doaj   +1 more source

Performing anti‐colonial military identities in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, 1943–1945: War, diasporic women and decolonisation

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Making a mantra tantric ritual and renunciation on the Jain path to liberation

open access: yes, 2021
"Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, ontology and epistemology, art, rituals, beliefs, and history.
Gough, Ellen
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Hindu‐Christian Comparative Theology in a Decolonial Key

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 285-306, April 2024.
Abstract This article imagines how the discipline of comparative theology might sound in a decolonial key. Focusing on implications for Hindu‐Christian comparative theology, this article puts the sacramental theological approach of Indian Christian artist and theologian Jyoti Sahi into conversation with Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) Nishnaabeg theorist ...
Michelle Voss
wiley   +1 more source

The neuroscience of tantric practice

open access: yes
This chapter is primarily concerned with tantric practice as spiritual training or self-cultivation within Buddhist and Hindu traditions. This process involves cognitive, emotional, and physical aspects of an integrated body-mind, and it appears to ...
Samuel, Geoffrey, Kozhevnikov, Maria
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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)

open access: yesArchaeometry, 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   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Relationship between Tantric and Non-tantric Doctrines in the Works of the Monk-Scholars of the Vikramasila Monastery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
application/pdf本研究の成果は、以下の3点に集約される。(1) Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource(Hamburg 大学)と連携し、ヴィクラマシーラ寺院に関するデータベースを作成・拡充した。(2) 同寺院の代表的な学僧の著作群における密教思想と他の仏教思想との関係性を検討した。(3) 上記の2つの作業に基づき、密教思想とそれ以外の仏教思想との関係性をめぐる同寺院の学僧たちの思想的傾向を考察した。このうち (2) と(3) の成果は、国際学術誌 Journal of ...
ミヤザキ, イズミ   +26 more
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