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“A Very Naughty Place!” The Attraction to the Frightening Other Reflected in Narratives about Assam
International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2019 According to many Hindus, travelling to Assam, in North-East India, is dangerous. The Assamese woman might trap the male outsider, using her magic to transform him into a goat and turn him back into a man at night.
Irene Majo Garigliano
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The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 795-813, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between romantic love and polyamory. Our central question is whether traditional norms of monogamy can be excised from romantic love so as to harmonize with polyamory's ethical dimensions (as we construe them).
Michael Milona, Lauren Weindling
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ASPECTOS CIENTÍFICOS Y BENEFICIOSOS DEL CULTO TANTRICO
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2016 Este artículo se propone identificar y aislar lo científico y beneficioso de la falsedad, superstición y misticismo que envuelve al tantrismo. De todas las prácticas religiosas y semireligiosas antiguas de la India, el culto tántrico es el que ha ...
Ratan Lal Basu
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Shabbetai Tsvis nedstigning til Farao – et jødisk eksempel på forløsning gennem urenhed
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2019 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As a Jewish example of redemption through impurity, this article analyses the ’strange acts’ of the Jewish mystic Shabbetai Tsvi. These acts included pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, liturgical subversions of synagogue service and ...
Marianne Schleicher
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Ventricular Tachycardia due to an Overdose of Tibetan Drugs: A Case Report of Aconitine Poisoning
Clinical Case Reports, Volume 13, Issue 6, June 2025.ABSTRACT Tibetan medicine enjoys a high recognition among Tibetans. Many Tibetan hospitals and medicine shops are dedicated to related research and prescribe Tibetan drugs to patients. Overdose intake of aconite‐containing Tibetan drugs might cause severe poisoning manifesting malignant ventricular arrhythmias.
Panjing Liu +3 more
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 416-430, March 2025.The phylogeny of Tetradium containing nine species is presented. One of the nine species, Tetradium celebicum (Koord.) T.G.Hartley ex Brambach & Appelhans, which was previously named Euodia mellifolia var. celebica, is taxonomically and systematically revised.
Lee‐Ping Ang +4 more
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Studies on Bhartṛhari and the Pratyabhijñā: The Case of svasaṃvedana
Religions, 2017 The article addresses a critical problem in the history of South Asian philosophy, namely the nature of the ‘knowledge of knowledge’ (svasaṃvedana). In particular, it investigates how the Śaiva tantric school of the Pratyabhijñā (10th–11th c.
Marco Ferrante
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 571-588, September 2024.Abstract This article draws on an ethnography of the transmission of Senegalese sabar dancing in France and Switzerland to discuss how the religious pathways of sabar enthusiasts bear witness to many modes of adoption or rejection of Mouride and Baye Fall aesthetics. I focus on several portraits of students in order to highlight three modalities of the
Alice Aterianus‐Owanga
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Symbolic and Imaginative Source of Mudra and Asana in Buddhist Art
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные наукиThis article reveals the meaning of one of the key elements of Buddhist iconography, i.e. the phenomenon of mudra (folding of fingers) and asana (body posture).
Victoria Vladimirovna Demenova
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Tibetan Bonpo Mendrup: The Precious Formula’s Transmission
History of Science in South Asia, 2017 The article presents the traceable history of the Tibetan Bonpo mendrup ritual practice in textual sources, as it has been recorded by the Bonpos themselves.
Anna Sehnalova
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