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Tantrism “Seen from the East’’
International audienceThe chapter raises the question as to whether the socio-religious current we now call “Tantrism” may represent a wider Monsoon Asian areal phenomenon, with roots in a past that predates the common era.
Acri, Andrea
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Ventricular Tachycardia due to an Overdose of Tibetan Drugs: A Case Report of Aconitine Poisoning
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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ASPECTOS CIENTÍFICOS Y BENEFICIOSOS DEL CULTO TANTRICO
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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Studies on Bhartṛhari and the Pratyabhijñā: The Case of svasaṃvedana
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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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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Symbolic and Imaginative Source of Mudra and Asana in Buddhist Art
This 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
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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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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An Old Uighur balividhi Fragment Unearthed from the Northern Grottoes of Dūnhuáng
Photographs of the recto side of the manuscript fragment B121:38 in Old Uighur, which was excavated from the northern section of the Dūnhuáng Mògāo Caves, were published in the second volume of The Northern Grottoes of Mògāo Caves. Because the verso side,
Aydar Mirkamal, Xiaonan Li
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hymns written by N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) are conspicuously lacking in worms and in the smell of death. This fact is particularly striking when Grundtvig’s texts are compared with the textual universe of Thomas Kingo (1634-1703 ...
Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig
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