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Divine Soldiers: the Boxers and their religious universe 神兵：义和团及其宗教世界

IF 0.2 3区哲学

Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2022.2101757

B. T. ter Haar

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Heroic monks and villainous pirates: an inquiry into monastic Buddhist warfare in sixteenth-century China 英勇的僧侣与邪恶的海盗——对16世纪中国修道战争的调查

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Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2022.2091364

Nikolas Broy

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Chinese and Tibetan Sources on the Dhāraṇī in Roll Seven of the *Śūraṃgama-sūtra Dhāra的汉藏渊源ṇ第七卷ṃ加马

IF 0.2 3区哲学

Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2022.2058776

G. Keyworth

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Image, ritual and mantra: a study on Esoteric rituals of Dipper Mother Mārīcī 形象，仪式和咒语:对北斗母亲深奥仪式的研究Mārīcī

IF 0.2 3区哲学

Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2022.2058287

S. Hsieh

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Dunhuang was not isolated: examples such as ‘Master Yixing sets up earth-wheel lamps’ and others from Yunnan 敦煌并不是孤立的，例如“宜兴师傅设土轮灯”和其他来自云南的例子

IF 0.2 3区哲学

Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2022.2058783

Chong Hou

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On the integration of Chinese, Tibetan, exoteric and esoteric Buddhism in the Tangut Kingdom 论唐古特王国汉、藏、外、密佛教的融合

IF 0.2 3区哲学

Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2022.2080435

Weirong Shen

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A (Presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin 一部（大概是中国的）密宗经文及其日本注释：《郁气经》瑜祇經和瑜伽修行

IF 0.2 3区哲学

Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2021.2015139

L. Dolce

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Ximing monastery’s esoteric Buddhist traditions 西明寺的深奥佛教传统

IF 0.2 3区哲学

Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2021.2015141

Ru Zhan

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Eison, Monkan, and the cult of founders in medieval Japan: on the construction of narrative and material selves in East Asian Buddhism Eison、Monkan与日本中世纪的创始人崇拜——论东亚佛教的叙事自我与物质自我建构

IF 0.2 3区哲学

Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2021.2015147

David Quinter

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Interpretation of the Unique Dhāraṇīs: Focusing on the Shi Moheyan lun 釋摩訶衍論解读独特Dhāraṇīs:以《石磨河衍论》为着眼点

IF 0.2 3区哲学

Studies in Chinese Religions Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2021.2015137

Jiyun Kim

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