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Reimagining Rural Spaces: Cultural Practices and Aesthetic Design for Active Ageing in Northern Thai Community

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 269-281, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of rural aesthetics and cultural practises in promoting active ageing amongst older adults in Baan Pong Nuea Village, Northern Thailand. Addressing a critical gap in the literature, it examines how the residential environment influences elderly well‐being in a rural context.
Alisa Nutley
wiley   +1 more source

Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
wiley   +1 more source

Theravadization of Buddhayana under the discourse of modern Buddhism and Indonesian politics

Simulacra
Scholars have presented the Buddhayana Movement as a diverse and localized form of Indonesian Buddhism, which was facilitated by the cooperation of transnational Buddhist networks.
Jesada Buaban, Al Makin, Evi Lina Sutrisno   +2 more
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On the Buddhist roots of contemporary non-religious mindfulness practice: Moving beyond sectarian and essentialist approaches

Temenos, 2016
Mindfulness-based practice methods are entering the Western cultural mainstream as institutionalised approaches in healthcare, education, and other public spheres. The Buddhist roots of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and comparable mindfulness-
Ville Husgafvel
doaj   +1 more source

(Re)framing Teacher Resilience Through an Ethico‐Onto‐Epistemological Lens

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In the face of teacher shortages and early‐career teacher attrition, resilience has emerged as a central focus in preservice teacher education particularly in the Global South, where resource disparities and socio‐political instabilities worsen existing constraints.
Shwe Ye Phyo, Erika Kopp
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar

Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 441-466, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
wiley   +1 more source

The Ethical Foundations of Buddhist Cognitive Models

Asian Studies, 2022
While issues related to greed and fear are ubiquitous in everyday life, they become particularly evident in crises such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, when societal responses are frequently based on either fear of the disease or craving for the ...
Tamara Ditrich
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Meanings and practices of accountability in the international development sector: The limits of “vernacularization” in rural Cambodia

Development Policy Review, Volume 44, Issue 3, May 2026.
Abstract Motivation Accountability agendas have long been promoted through the policies and programmes of international development organizations around the world. Despite increasing scholarly interest in how political concepts, such as human rights, are “vernacularized” into local contexts, there has been little consideration to date of the ...
Tamas Wells, Kate MacDonald, Shelley Marshall, Ruth Bottomley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tea Tree Consecration Ceremony of Bulang Tradition under the Theravāda Buddhism in Laoman’e Village: An Empirical Study

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2023
This study focuses on the tea tree consecration ceremony of the Bulang ethnic people in the Laoman’e village of Xishuangbanna (Yunnan) China. The study applied the qualitative research method in the sociological approach to religious studies.
Wenen Yan
doaj  

On the Ontology of Composites in Abhidharma Buddhism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 679-693, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Abhidharma Buddhism maintains that the only ultimately real (paramārtha) entities in the universe are dharmas, which are simples. What then is the ontological status of composites on this theory? One possibility is that Abhidharma Buddhists deny the reality of composites.
Monima Chadha, Shaun Nichols
wiley   +1 more source