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Buddism in Mongolia at the turn of 20– 21st centuries

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article based on the analysis of the sources and results of the field studies examines the process of revival of Buddhism in Mongolia after 1990. The author notes that Buddhism at the present time was in the new conditions. Mongolian Sangha managed to
R. Sabirov
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On the Threshold of the "Land of Marvels:" Alexandra David-Neel in Sikkim and the Making of Global Buddhism

open access: yesThe Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2016
Alexandra David-Neel had already been acquainted with the Himalayas for a long time before the visits to Tibet in 1924 that would make her a mainstream figure of modern Buddhism.
Samuel Thévoz
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Astrology as Sacred Ecological Knowledge in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

open access: yesOriental Studies
Introduction. The identification of specific responses generated by religious traditions to present-day global challenges actualizes the rethinking of astrology as a traditional understanding of the world structure and influence of natural forces on man ...
Yulia Yu. Erendzhenova
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Depression, Guilt, and Tibetan Buddhism

open access: yesPsychology, 2012
Depression appears to be somewhat epidemic in the modern world. In prior empirical studies we found depression significantly associated with empathy-based guilt, empathic distress, and an overly active or misattributing moral system. In this study, we compared 98 Buddhists, who were primarily Tibetan meditation practitioners to 438 non-Buddhist, non ...
Lynn E. O’Connor   +3 more
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Constructing Local Religious Landscapes: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Tibetan Buddhist Temples in the Tibetan–Yi Corridor

open access: yesReligions
Situated in the mountainous and gorge-ridden region at the junction of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province, and Yunnan Province, the Tibetan–Yi Corridor is home to the Kham Tibetan area, one of China’s three traditional Tibetan areas.
Tianyi Min, Tong Zhang
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confessionally-caused features of motivation in the buddhists Karma Kagyu School

open access: yesВестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Психолого-педагогические науки, 2018
The article focuses on the features of the Russian Buddhists’ motivation in the framework of the Karma Kagyu traditions, determined by the method of Stojković I. and Mirić J.
Miroslav I. Yasin
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Grand Union between Tibet and Mongolia: Unfulfilled Dream of the 13th Dalai Lama

open access: yesThe Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2013
Since the late sixteenth century when Altan Khan of Tumed in Southern Mongolia adopted the Yellow Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism and sup­ported it as the common faith of the Mongol people, the teaching and discipline of Buddhism greatly influenced the ...
Tsedenbamba Batbayar
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Vajrayāna Art and Iconography

open access: yesZygon, 2000
Iconographic imagery in the Indo‐Tibetan Buddhist Tantric (i.e., Vajrayāna) tradition is replete with polymorphic symbolic forms. Tantric texts themselves are multivalent, addressing astronomy, astrology, cosmology, history, embryology, physiology ...
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Where the Heroes and Sky-Goers Gather: A Study of the Sauraṭa Pilgrimage

open access: yesReligions, 2017
Tibetan and Himālayan Buddhist doctrine and meditative traditions have been extensively studied and are well-known even to non-scholars, but pilgrimage and other non-elite practices have received far less attention.
Paul B. Donnelly
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ON THE ISSUE OF THE EARLY INTERACTIONS OF THE MANCHU RULERS WITH TIBETAN LAMAS

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2018
The article is devoted to the study of the early connections of the Manchu rulers with the highest leadership of Tibetan Buddhism. Probably, the countdown should be conducted from the 1620s, when the Manchus intensified their interaction with the ...
B U Kitinov, Liu Qiang
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