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Social and Engaged Buddhism: The CEBB Experience and Lama Padma Samten
This work aims to make a historical recovery of the emergence of CEBB (Centro de Estudos Budistas Bodisatva) and his experiences as a vehicle for dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism in Brazil, as well as the very trajectory of Lama Padma Samten, its ...
Deyve Redyson
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Why is traditional polygamy unjust? Implications for egalitarian nonmonogamy
Abstract The notion of equality attracts both proponents and critics of nonmonogamy. Inequality is a widely discussed objection to nonmonogamy. Simultaneously, equality is highlighted as a core value in ethical nonmonogamy. The notions of equality and inequality in these debates have not been clearly conceptualized.
Perri Sriwannawit
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Pluriversal bodies: Researching care through embodied ethnography
Abstract In this research note, I outline an approach to embodied experiences of care and caregiving in ethnographic scholarship on care. I describe how ethnographers of care and caregiving can use embodied methodologies, particularly through attending also to the cross‐cultural differences in embodied experiences.
Kelly Dombroski
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Child Ordination in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism
ABSTRACT This essay presents scholarship on the lifestyles of Buddhist young people who ordain before reaching the age of 18 or 20—ages that in many nations today signify adulthood. It covers questions about the forms of education provided young nuns and monks, the care and emotional support such children receive.
Liz Wilson
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Buddism in Mongolia at the turn of 20– 21st centuries
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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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
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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Potency by Name? ‘Medicine Buddha Plant’ and Other Herbs in the Japanese \u3ci\u3eScroll of Equine Medicine\u3c/i\u3e (\u3ci\u3eBa’i sōshi emaki\u3c/i\u3e, 1267) [PDF]
Buddhist ritual healing and medical therapies included care for domestic animals, such as the horse. In pre-modern Japan, equine medicine (ba’i 馬医) was not restricted to the treatment of military horses; it was also practiced in a religious context.
Triplett, Katja
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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
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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