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Tibetan Buddhism in Kalmykia [PDF]

, 2017
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to study and analyze Tibetan Buddhism in Kalmykia. In order to achieve this goal, the following points must be examined: 1.
Kosareva, Evgeniya
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On the Threshold of the "Land of Marvels:" Alexandra David-Neel in Sikkim and the Making of Global Buddhism

The 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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Sino-Tibetan languages [PDF]

, 2010
The Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family includes the Sinitic languages (what for political reasons are known as Chinese ‘dialects’) and the 200 to 300 Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Buddism in Mongolia at the turn of 20– 21st centuries

Oriental 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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Astrology as Sacred Ecological Knowledge in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

Oriental 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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Grand Union between Tibet and Mongolia: Unfulfilled Dream of the 13th Dalai Lama

The 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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Constructing Local Religious Landscapes: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Tibetan Buddhist Temples in the Tibetan–Yi Corridor

Religions
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

Вестник 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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Where the Heroes and Sky-Goers Gather: A Study of the Sauraṭa Pilgrimage

Religions, 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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Vajrayāna Art and Iconography

Zygon, 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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