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Plastic Skinscapes in Tibetan Buddhism
The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2022 This article takes as its point of departure S. Brent Plate's (2012) compelling metaphor ‘the skin of religion’ to discuss the increasing presence and impact of plastics in the sphere of religion.
Trine Brox
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Conservation & Society, 2017 Alpine wetlands occupy a considerable area of the Tibetan Plateau, a region that is characterised by diverse but fragile ecosystems, including alpine wetlands, which are reported to have shrunk by 29% over the last several decades.
Kabzung Gaerrang
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Geo-Spatial Information Science, 2022 Gelugpa is the most influential extant religious sect of Tibetan Buddhism, which is the spiritual prop for Tibetans, with thousands of monasteries and followers in Tibetan areas of China. Studies on the spatial diffusion processes of Gelugpa can not only
Zihao Chao +3 more
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Representing Tibetan Buddhism in Books on Spirituality: A Discourse-Historical Approach
Critical Research on Religion, 2022 This article looks into how Tibetan Buddhism is framed in terms of East-West dichotomy in six popular books on Buddhism and spirituality. Discourse Historical Approach is employed to uncover the rhetorical representation of Tibetan Buddhism to the ...
M. Sharapan
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ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2021 . Tibetan Buddhist architecture embodies ancient Chinese architectural culture and religious culture. In the past, the information retention mechanisms for ancient buildings were implemented as photos, tracings, and rubbings, which cannot fundamentally ...
Zongfei Li +5 more
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Geocultural images of the Tuvan Buddhist world: historical context and modernity
Новые исследования Тувы, 2019 The article analyzes geocultural images of Buddhist world of the Tuvans. These images are viewed as concepts, which were formed in the Tuvan culture to describe the areas where Buddhism has spread.
Chimiza K. Lamazhaa
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Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2019 The article provides a theoretical analysis of the meditative practice of Tibetan Buddhism (Gelug school) and formulates an explanatory concept that allows to understand the essence of the practice in General and its individual elements on the basis of ...
Marina Yuryevna Neronova +1 more
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Multiple Buddhisms in Ladakh: Strategic Secularities and Missionaries Fighting Decline
Religions, 2021 During fieldwork in Ladakh in July–August 2018, three authors from Asian studies, anthropology, and religious studies backgrounds researched “multiple Buddhisms” in Ladakh, India.
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg +2 more
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Rahul Sankrityayan, Tsetan Phuntsog and Tibetan Textbooks for Ladakh in 1933 [PDF]
, 2020 In 1933 the Indian scholar and social activist Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) compiled a set of four Tibetan-language readers and a grammar for use in Ladakhi schools, together with his Ladakhi colleague Tsetan Phuntsog.
Bray, John +3 more
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2018 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion [PDF]
, 2019 Conference Report on the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of ...
Haynie, Eric
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