Gratitude without a self by Chadha, M, Nichols, S

“…In this paper we explain the notion of anumodanā and its functioning in the context of dāna (gift-giving or almsgiving in the Buddhist monastic context) to explain how it recovers some of the benefits of our ordinary reactive attitude of gratitude without implicating the self.…”

Making flowers speak: Petrarch and idiorrhythmy by Southerden, F

“…The article begins with a study of Barthes’s exposition of idiorrhythmy: its medieval origins in the monastic communities of Mount Athos and the productively unstable and improvised character of the “living together,” and apart, that it implies. …”

Tensions and experimentations of Kingship: King Narai and his response to missionary overtures in the 1680s by Strathern, A

“…This involves a consideration of his increasing residence in Lopburi; his fractious relationship with the Buddhist monastic order; his desire to innovate in the field of astrology and chronicle writing; the appeal of French culture and monarchical grandeur; and the possibility that his metaphysical worldview underwent a significant shift towards deism. …”

The multifarious muse: two palaeologan collections of paraenetic chapters by Paoletti, G

“…The study of these texts provides information on a wide range of topics such as the two main manuscripts, the genre of paraenetic poetry, the composition of CFW and CPV, intertextuality, hypertextuality, and the legacy of literary authorities in Byzantium, and the interaction between secular and monastic circles. It offers new insights on the authorship of the two collections, which this study shows to be closely related. …”

Reconsidering the “Popular View” (俗覧 <i>zokuran</i>): Tracing Vernacular Precedents in a Modern Illustrated Hagiography of Kakuban 覺鑁 (1095–1143) by Matthew Hayes

“…This example draws attention to the mutually constitutive relationship between otherwise traditionally distinct functions of text and image in Japanese Buddhist hagiography, but also common conceptual divisions between lay and monastic experiences and popular and elite reading practices.…”
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When the ‘Buddha’s Tree Itself Becomes a Rhizome’: The Religious Itinerant, Nomad Science and the Buddhist State by James Taylor

“…The paper also theorises transitions and movement at the borderlands in the context of the state’s monastic reforms. These reforms, and its pervasive royal science, problematised the interstitial zones of the early ascetic wanderers in their radical cross-cutting networks and lines, moving within and across demarcated frontiers. …”
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Il monastero di San Prospero nella crisi del Trecento: aspetti gestionali e relazionali by Andrea Oldani

“…Prospero used to receive monastic lands in feud or in leasing. On the other hand, discontinuity can be obviously spotted in the agrarian contracts. …”
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Innovation, adaptation, and maintaining the balance by Heikki Pesonen

“…As examples, I use the struggle of the Canadian Mi’kmaq indigenous community over the fate of their sacred mountain and the ordination ritual of Thai monks, who ordain trees under threat of felling in a Buddhist monastic community. …”
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Transforming Loneliness: An Orthodox Christian Answer to an Increasing Loneliness in Disabled Populations by Emil M. Marginean

“…In the Eastern Orthodox Christian ascetical theology, loneliness was transformed into a positive voluntary solitude and has been a central point of daily life, manifested from the ancient Christian sites to modern-day monastic and eremitic life. The present paper proposes a two-folded solution for reframing loneliness into empowerment. …”
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Why Was Original Buddhism for Monks Only? by Ferenc Ruzsa

“…Early Buddhism was a monastic religion: the Buddha’s disciples were mendicant monks. …”
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The Buddhist Concept of “Filial Piety” in the Context of Early Chinese Buddhist Scripture Translation by Jing Guo

“…Buddhists were not against the value of filial piety when embracing monastic life; instead, they could accumulate merits and dedicate them to their parents and relatives, rescuing them from samsara. …”
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Rola cara Piotra (927-969) w życiu bułgarskiego Kościoła. Kilka uwag by Mirosław J. Leszka

“…Peter himself became a monk before his death, and subsequently his personal worship evolved around his involvement in the monas­tic movement. …”
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Permissibility of Sama’ According to Ibn Qaysarani and Ghazali by Habib Ollah Abbasi, Zahra Namazi

“…The importance of this discussion lies in the fact that both of them were among the prominent scholars of religion and among the elders of hadith, who sought a root for their fatwas in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, and they figured out a way to the Sunnah of the Prophet and the Companions for all the movements and states of the Sufis in the monastic system. With their knowledge both in the field of theology and jurisprudence as well as the Book and Sunnah, unlike the conservative Sufis, they issued verdicts concerning permissibility of Sama’, through deploying the methods of scholars and jurists and relying on verses, hadiths, and Sunnah.…”
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The Political Dimension of Liturgical Prayers of Remembrance: Lists of Rulers in the Confraternity Books of the Carolingian Period by Eva-Maria Butz

“…The regional perspective of each monastic community plays a major role here. Complex reference and interpretative systems are exposed in the confraternity books, whose orderliness, structure and prayer also served as a counterbalance to the disorder and crisis prevalent in the world.…”
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Tourism Potential & Challenges for Islamic Monastery Heritage Sites in Ethiopia: Tiru Sina Mosque by Tesfaye Nigatu, Endris Haider, Zelalem Ambaw

“…As the findings reveal, Tiru Sina Mosque is a unique Islamic monastic site with great potential for religious tourism development. …”
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The Slavonic Translation of the Life of Saint Euthymius the Great: Observations on Language and Authorship by Dmitriy Evgenyevich Afinogenov

“…The details added by the translator to the description of certain realia pertaining to the Monastery of Saint Euthymius in Palestine suggest a personal knowledge of that monastic complex (the Laura and the coenobium). The proposed author of the translation is Saint Anthony of the Cave Monastery in Kiev († 1073), who could perfectly well have visited the Holy Land during his stay on Mount Athos prior to 1051.…”
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One or None? Truth and Self-Transformation for Śaṅkara and Kamalaśīla by David Vincent Fiordalis

“…They have differing institutional and ontological commitments: the former, who helped establish Advaita Vedānta as the religious philosophy of an elite Hindu monastic tradition, affirms an unchanging “self” (ātman) identical to the “world-essence” (brahman); the latter, who played a significant role in the development of Buddhist monasticism in Tibet, denies both self and essence. …”
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THE OLD IRISH POET: MAGICIAN, SEER OR STORYTELLER by Daria A. Ilgova

“…Understanding this shift is also impossible without analyzing the historical and cultural context (the Christianization of Ireland, Viking raids, the weakening of the monastic way of life and other social and cultural aspects). …”
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L’Armenia moderna: rinascita nazionale e risorgimento mancato by Aldo Ferrari

“…“Rebirth” (veracnund) and “Awakening” (zart’onk’) are the traditional keywords in a modernization process begun in the 18th century by the Christian humanism of the Mekhitarist Catholic Monastic Order in Venice and the “eccentric” enlightenment of the Indian colonies, continuing in the nineteenth and early 20th centuries by means of wide-ranging polycentric activity, which led to significant progress in the cultural field. …”
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Celibacy or Marriage? Dilemmas for Buddhist Monks in Korea by Beatrix Mecsi

“… Following the Confucian period of the Chosŏn era, which overshadowed Buddhists and confined them to the margins of society, at the beginning of Japanese colonial rule the possibility of monastic marriage typical of Japanese practice emerged as a viable alternative for Korean Buddhists in the early twentieth century. …”
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