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With the Tibetan diaspora in the late 1950s, Tibetan Buddhism spread to nearly every continent on the globe and has begun transforming western landscapes through the construction of stūpas, Buddhism’s principal architectural form.
Janice Glowski
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New Kadampa Buddhists and Jungian psychological type [PDF]
Building on previous studies on Canadian Anglicans and Catholics, this study examines and discusses the psychological type profile of 31 adherents to New Kadampa Buddhism. Like Anglicans and Catholics, Buddhists preferred introversion (I). Like Anglicans
Francis, Leslie J. +2 more
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The current situation and development trends of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Mongolia
Since the 16th century, the dge-lugs-pa (Gelug sect) of Tibetan Buddhism has been spread widely in Mongolian regions, gradually permeating the ideological and social lives of the Mongolian people.
S. Gaowa
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HISTORICAL AUTHENTICITY OF THE TIBETAN BUDDHISM AMONG KALMYKS OF STAVROPOL PROVINCE
The article deals with the scientific problem of historic conformity of the Buddhism of the Russian Kalmyks at the end of XIX - the beginning of the XX century with the Tibetan original of this dogma, as well as religious links of the Kalmyk Buddhist ...
Aleksandr Alekseevich Fokin +1 more
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The Sacred Federation of Tibet and the Mongol Empire
This article re-examines the history of the Mongol Empire’s rule over Tibet, analyzing the complex institutional and religious relationships between the Mongol Empire and Tibet from an innovative perspective.
Lingkai Kong
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Tibet's exceptional geographical and climate features have fostered a distinct regional culture and a specific religious belief of Tibetan Buddhism. These attributes have a close association with environmental conservation and sustainable lifestyles ...
Ling Miao +4 more
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Tantric Ritual and Conflict in Tibetan Buddhist Society. The Cult of Yamāntaka
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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This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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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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