Social Media, Vernacularity, and Pedagogy: Youth and the Reinvention of Contemporary Vietnamese Buddhism by Dat Manh Nguyen

“…In so doing, the article investigates the co-working between urban monastics and lay Buddhist youth to reconfigure Buddhist knowledge and practices to appeal to young people’s dispositions, life experiences, and knowledge. …”
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Comparing Moralities in the Abrahamic and Indic Religions Using Cognitive Science: Kindness, Peace, and Love versus Justice, Violence, and Hate by Aria Nakissa

“…The article considers how moral intuitions shape Abrahamic/Indic moral teachings, which, in turn, impact: (1) Abrahamic/Indic doctrines concerning politics, law, and war; (2) Abrahamic/Indic doctrines concerning individual ethics, and moral behavior proper to monastics and laypersons; and (3) Abrahamic/Indic doctrines concerning theological matters, such as the nature of the universe, souls, and deities.…”
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Vows without a self by Berryman, K, Chadha, M, Nichols, S

“…<p>Vows play a central role in Buddhist thought and practice. Monastics are obliged to know and conform to hundreds of vows. …”

In the Quest for Natural Living: the Taoist and Jungian Roots of Arnold Mindell’s Therapeutic Path by Arian Kowalski

“…Tao is the process of passing into each other the opposite aspects of the monastically understood Qi energy. Mindell was also inspired by the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, which emphasizes the importance of archetypal, unconscious mental processes and their impact on the ego through random thoughts, fantasies or dreams. …”
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Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China by Ngar-Sze Lau

“…With the influence of the opening of China and growing transnational networks, there has been an increasing number of Han Chinese monastics and lay people practicing transnational meditation, such as <i>samādhi</i>, <i>vipassanā</i> and mindfulness, in the past two decades. …”
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Cinema Divina and Autotheory: An Interview with Marilyn Freeman by Marilyn Freeman, Cat Auburn

“…Ultimately, this interview establishes that Cinema Divina can be seen as an autotheoretical practice that uses contemplative practices rooted in <i>lectio divina</i>, a meditative prayer ritual of early Benedictine monastics, to theorize through Freeman’s embodied, lived experiences and artistic outcomes.…”
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Wpływ duchowości Pustelni Optyńskiej na twórczość rosyjskich filozofów i pisarzy XIX w. by Tomasz Kuprjanowicz

“…Jednym z takich monasterów był właśnie wtedy Kozielski Monaster Wprowadzenia Matki Bożej do Świątyni zwany Pustelnią Optyńską. …”
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Imaginative immersion in the Cistercian Cloister by Line Cecilie Engh

“…This article uses analytical concepts from cognitive science to explore and deepen our understanding of how medieval monastics imagined themselves as characters within biblical narratives. …”
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What is humility? by Still, J

“…I then contrast this with a 'radically' Christian understanding of humility drawn from the work of Kent Dunnington, who constructs his account from writings from the early desert monastics and St Augustine, and ultimately on Jesus's willingness to "[humble] himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross" (Philippians 2:8). …”

On Bonshakuji as the Penultimate Buddhist Temple to Protect the State in Early Japanese History by George A. Keyworth

“…I also examine how and why scholar officials and powerful monastics, particularly those associated with the so-called esoteric Tendai and Shingon temples of Enryakuji and Miidera, and Tōji and Daigoji, respectively, utilized the library of Bonshakuji and older and novel state protection texts kept there to preserve early Japanese state-supported Buddhist worldmaking efforts long after that state had become virtually bankrupt.…”
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Hesychast Idea of Deification and Its Representation in Spiritual Epistolary of Russian Orthodox Monasticism of 20 Century by A. N. Smolina

“…The role of the idea of deification in the life of Orthodox Christians, in particular monastics, its importance in the spiritual and moral development of believers is considered separately.…”
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“Fatal betrayal”of the Church: the question of “ecclesiastical bolshevism” at the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (1917–1918) by Konstantin Kovyrzin

“…The author concludes that the phenomenon of “ecclesiastical Bolshevism” was due to a number of reasons, the most important being the partial secularization of clergy and monastics and their loss of canon-law awareness. The external revolutionary factors became the catalyst for the critical tendencies already present in church life. …”
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The Siddha with a Thousand Faces: Non-Tantric and Tantric Elements in the Construction of the Buddhist Siddha in *Jñānākara’s <i>Commentary to the Introduction to the [Path of] Man... by Aleksandra Wenta

“…While the previous study focused mainly on the debatable and highly controversial issue of tantric sexual initiations adopted by the monastics and hermeneutical tools employed by *Jñānākara to refute the literal interpretation of tantric scriptures, the current paper will concentrate on the exposition of tantric practice understood as the accumulation of causes and conditions (<i>hetu-pratyaya</i>) leading to the status of the siddha. …”
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Letters Russian nuns from Jerusalem in 1945–1967 by Evgenii V. Palamarenko

“…For decades, they represented practically the only source of information from Jerusalem, especially until 1963, when diplomatic relations between the USSR and Jordan were not established. In addition, other monastics who were supporters of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate lived in East Jerusalem. …”

5′-Inositol phosphatase SHIP2 recruits Mena to stabilize invadopodia for cancer cell invasion by Rajadurai, Charles V., Havrylov, Serhiy, Coelho, Paula P., Ratcliffe, Colin D.H., Zaoui, Kossay, Huang, Bruce H., Monast, Anie, Chughtai, Naila, Sangwan, Veena, Siegel, Peter M., Park, Morag, Gertler, Frank

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Co-dependency for MET and FGFR1 in basal triple-negative breast cancers by Vanessa Y. C. Sung, Jennifer F. Knight, Radia M. Johnson, Yaakov E. Stern, Sadiq M. Saleh, Paul Savage, Anie Monast, Dongmei Zuo, Stéphanie Duhamel, Morag Park

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Reperfusion therapy in renal dysfunction patients presenting with STEMI: Which is better in the Tunisian context? by N. Bouchahda, M. Hassine, G. Chniti, M. Mahjoub, Z. Dridi, F. Betbout, H. Gamra

“…Methods: From January 1995 to October 2011, 1388 patients admitted for STEMI were enrolled in the MIRAMI (MonastIR’s Acute Myocardial Infarction) registry. …”
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Author Correction: SMARCA4/2 loss inhibits chemotherapy-induced apoptosis by restricting IP3R3-mediated Ca2+ flux to mitochondria by Yibo Xue, Jordan L. Morris, Kangning Yang, Zheng Fu, Xianbing Zhu, Fraser Johnson, Brian Meehan, Leora Witkowski, Amber Yasmeen, Tunde Golenar, Mackenzie Coatham, Geneviève Morin, Anie Monast, Virginie Pilon, Pierre Olivier Fiset, Sungmi Jung, Anne V. Gonzalez, Sophie Camilleri-Broet, Lili Fu, Lynne-Marie Postovit, Jonathan Spicer, Walter H. Gotlieb, Marie-Christine Guiot, Janusz Rak, Morag Park, William Lockwood, William D. Foulkes, Julien Prudent, Sidong Huang

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SMARCA4/2 loss inhibits chemotherapy-induced apoptosis by restricting IP3R3-mediated Ca2+ flux to mitochondria by Yibo Xue, Jordan L. Morris, Kangning Yang, Zheng Fu, Xianbing Zhu, Fraser Johnson, Brian Meehan, Leora Witkowski, Amber Yasmeen, Tunde Golenar, Mackenzie Coatham, Geneviève Morin, Anie Monast, Virginie Pilon, Pierre Olivier Fiset, Sungmi Jung, Anne V. Gonzalez, Sophie Camilleri-Broet, Lili Fu, Lynne-Marie Postovit, Jonathan Spicer, Walter H. Gotlieb, Marie-Christine Guiot, Janusz Rak, Morag Park, William Lockwood, William D. Foulkes, Julien Prudent, Sidong Huang

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The Kadampa: a formative movement of Tibetan Buddhism by Roesler, U

“…His work on the stages of the path to awakening includes instructions on Tantra, but states that tantric practice may not contradict the vows taken (thus excluding antinomian practices for monastics). The early Tibetan Bka’ gdams pa masters take the same stance and promote the idea that Pāramitānaya (i.e., non-tantric Mahāyāna Buddhism) and Tantra have the same validity and lead to the same goal, thus trying to strike a balance between the two approaches.…”