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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 300–301.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Herman Tull Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India . By Jacob Copeman . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 2009 . ix , 233 pp., 13 illustrations. $68.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (3): 342–345.
Published: 01 May 1963
... Conditions Obtaining among Rural Homes . By Antonio G. Tan . Quezon City : Community Development Research Council, University of the Philippines , Study Series No. 10, 1960 , xv, 59 , iii, mimeo. Bibliog., Maps, and Photo. An Analysis of the Social Effects of Donated Radios on Barrio Life...
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in “Pioneers of Overseas Japanese Development”: Japanese American History and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 November 2008
Figure 7. “A Mountain of Sunkist Oranges and Lemons.” The description reads, “Donated by Japanese agricultural associations in America, the savory aroma of abundant Sunkist oranges and lemons makes the visitors' mouths water. After the exhibition the fruits are presented to wounded and sick
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (4): 671–688.
Published: 01 August 1979
...Michael Aung Thwin Abstract Throughout Burmese history people donated money, land, and labor to the sangha in the hope of acquiring merit and ensuring rebirth in a better existence. Each dynasty was confronted with the flow of wealth from state properties and taxable public holdings to tax-free...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 539–562.
Published: 01 August 2013
... into productive and moral mothers, and geisha donated to local educational institutions and suggested that their own studies would lead to self-sufficiency and freedom. These efforts associated geisha with the values of productivity and enlightenment, although similar strategies proved less successful...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (2): 310–318.
Published: 01 February 1959
..., Harleian, and Cottonian Collections, and those acquired subsequently by donation and purchase, were comparatively few in number and were administered by the two departments of Printed Books and of Manuscripts. By 1867, however, the growing number of acquisitions and a growing sense of the importance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 339–360.
Published: 01 May 1987
... and political environment in the context of late nineteenth-century British rule. When government policies seriously threatened their ābrū during World War I, however, local traders began to view donations to the Indian National Congress as an alternative method of conserving status and credit. VOL. 46, No. 2...
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in Resisting the Global in Buddhist Nationalism: Venerable Soma's Discourse of Decline and Reform
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2008
Figure 6. A sign with Venerable Soma's picture and the national flag of Sri Lanka advertises a blood donation held at a small temple in Gangodawila, Nugegoda. The sign describes donating blood as a form of “national service.” It also asserts that the merit earned from giving blood
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 514–516.
Published: 01 August 2023
... in seventeenth-century northern rural Vietnam: villagers donating land and other forms of wealth to temples or to village authorities in return for them or their ancestors or their family members being acknowledged as “followers” (Hậu) of the Buddha (Hậu Phật) or of a local deity (Hậu Thần). It is impossible...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 782–784.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of merit as well as their discursive significance in preserving the Dhamma. The information a sazigyo contains could have appeared inside the manuscript; that it lies outside underscores the donation's public significance, not merely a wish for merit but a claim to status, wealth, and spiritual position...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 40 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 November 1980
... facie Than Tun's estimate without subjecting it to the elaborate scrutiny mine had to face. Then, by increasing the estimated total cultivated acreage in Upper Burma, he was able to "show" that the amount donated to the church was unimpressive. Let me choose but two inscriptions out of a total 500...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 827–841.
Published: 01 November 1987
... the role played by monasteries as social and economic institutions. Kanjin campaigns, the public solicitations for donations to Buddhist monasteries, played a significant role in the popularization of medieval Buddhism. In order to evaluate that role, this article will examine a campaign initiated in 1182...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 791–826.
Published: 01 November 1987
.... In this way the unification of the Cholas spread throughout Tamil Nadu a political system in which religious donations were a means toward political integration and the establishment of local power.2 Growing temple endowments served as foci for commercial transactions and agrarian development as well...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 308–340.
Published: 01 May 1991
... (Prakasam district) with sixty-eight inscriptions (illustration 3), Daksharama (East Godavari district) with fifty inscriptions and Vijayavada (Krishna district) with fortynine inscriptions. The remaining six sites with the greatest number of donations possess from nine to thirty records (table 2). Only...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1052–1054.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the Bangsa Malaysia policy aiming to establish an inclusive Malaysian national identity, the idioms of ethnic or racial difference emerge in the donation processes, shop talks, chats, lab training sessions, and transfusion. Instead of essentializing racial stereotypes and strengthening racial discriminations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 251–252.
Published: 01 May 1991
..., he concludes that the late Ming saw a strengthening of the alliance between the dynastic state and the propertied, patrician elements of Chinese society. CYNTHIA TALBOT discusses Hindu temple donations and endowments in Andhra Pradesh during the thirteenth century. Based on epigraphic research, she...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 753–769.
Published: 01 August 1980
... was weighted more heavily toward the former, land donations in the Mon kingdom were always relatively modest. Cf. Sbeì-baùng mon kyauk-sa , pt. 2, with Table 1 below. 32 “Sasana Reform,” pp. 677–78. See, however, n. 54 below. Burma's loss of sovereignty over the coast in 1852 did not stop the growth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 728–730.
Published: 01 August 2019
... manuscript illustrations includes format, styles, and content (for example, animals, demons, and celestial beings). A manuscript is shown wrapped in a woman's tube skirt (figure 1.22), but it is not mentioned that tube skirts and skirt cloth ( pha nung ) that were donated by a family along...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 143–170.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of medical problems, well beyond the symptoms reported by the patients themselves. They did not insist on a specific fee and asked only for donations. If they felt that a patient gave too little, however, they would loudly complain as soon as that person had left. The next patient, concerned to save face...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 745–746.
Published: 01 August 1981
... to show that the institutional relation was by no means static and that the problem of religious lands was at best of marginal significance after the mid-sixteenth century. In his latest piece, Aung-Thwin skirts these arguments. He reasserts that landed donations had a cumulative impact but fails to prove...
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