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Shamanistic practice in Northern Nepal
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1967 The Sherpas—in Tibetan śar-pa or "men of the east"—live mainly in Northern Nepal, in the Darjeeling district, in India and Northern Sikkim, in the regions bordering on Tibet, and on the southern slopes of the Himalayas.
Toni Schmid
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Tantric Ritual and Conflict in Tibetan Buddhist Society. The Cult of Yamāntaka
Lea, 2022 The article examines the employment of tantric ritual as a tool of conflict resolution in Tibetan Buddhist society. In particular, the analysis focuses on the cult of the tantric Buddhist deity Yamāntaka, who is often invoked in tantric ritual to ...
Aleksandra Wenta
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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
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Frontiers in Communication, 2021 One of the goals of the historic Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI) is to catalyze cross-cultural thinking among scientists and Buddhists. Over a decade into the project to elicit such thinking the project sponsored an essay competition among the ...
Jampa Gyaltsen +2 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2019 From a generic perspective, the Tangut ideological system can be represented as the conflation of three major factors: in the course of their history, the Tanguts were open to ideological inflows originating mainly on the Central Plains (1, Buddhism and ...
Kirill Solonin
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Religion and Official Politics in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT With increasing discussions on political deification and the official references to traditional religions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), recent debates on the PRC's alleged infiltration over Taiwan elections through the goddess Mazu, and the post‐Handover government's emphasis on filiality to China in Hong Kong, it is high time to ...
Ting Guo
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Tibetan Data Augmentation via GAN‐Based Handwritten Text Generation
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 55-65, February 2026.ABSTRACT Increased awareness of Tibetan cultural preservation, along with technological advancements, has led to significant efforts in academic research on Tibetan. However, the structural complexity of the Tibetan language and limited labeled handwriting data impede advancements in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and other applications.
Dorje Tashi +9 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 40-61, January 2026.Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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IET Image Processing, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.We propose GPCDet, a detection framework guided by the composition principles of Thangka paintings, integrating spatial and co‐occurrence priors through a spatial coordinate attention module and a graph convolution network‐auxiliary detection module.
Jiachen Li +7 more
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