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Exploring the complexity of community perceptions toward Przewalski's gazelle conservation
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.To understand local perceptions toward Przewalski's gazelle conservation, we combined two clustering analysis methods to identify four primary types of perspectives and key influencing factors regarding the conservation of Przewalski's gazelle within the local community.
Wenxuan Ma +5 more
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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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Religious policy and state control in Tibet : Scottish Parliament cross-party group on Tibet, briefing paper 3 [PDF]
, 2010 Postprin
Mills, Martin, Scrimgeour, Ronald
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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 461-472, April 2026.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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Practicing the Perfections: \u3ci\u3eCommunitas\u3c/i\u3e During the \u3ci\u3eSaga Dawa Kortsay\u3c/i\u3e at Swayambhunath, Nepal [PDF]
, 2020 Based on observations from personal participation in the 2014 Saga Dawa Kortsay at Swayambhunath Stupa complex located near Kathmandu, Nepal, my essay draws attention to the distinctive lay Buddhist community that is formed in such ritual performances ...
Sorensen, Michelle J.
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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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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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Water Politics and Religious Practices in Kangding [PDF]
, 2017 This case study examines the use of water in Kangding, China. Kangding is a location in the Kham Himalaya which for centuries served as a strategic border area between Tibetan and Chinese worlds.
Yang, Nyimatashi Gongwei
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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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Synthesis of Cultures of the East and West in the Philosophy of B.D. Dandaron
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2020 The article deals with the phenomenon of synthesis of East and West cultures in the religious philosophy of B.D. Dandaron - one of the most famous representatives of Russian Buddhism in the XX century. The beginning of the spread of Buddhist teachings in
Mergen Sanjievich Ulanov
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