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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 275–277.
Published: 01 February 2007
...June McDaniel Dealing with Deities: The Ritual Vow in South Asia . Edited by Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2006 . xix , 287 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 In the modern...
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Stability and Prosperity in Hong Kong: The Twilight of Laissez-faire Colonialism? — A Review Article
Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 589–598.
Published: 01 May 1983
...Ming K. Chan Abstract Both Beijing and London have vowed to maintain Hong Kong's stability and prosperity in the uncertainty surrounding the expiration of the New Territories Lease in 1997. The six books under review are timely but not entirely successful attempts to trace local socioeconomic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 1076–1079.
Published: 01 August 1975
... of this film. In the actual analysis of musical style in Part For weeks preceding the festival, the par- II, the author discusses the role of the Tshig- ticipants gather at small temples to prepare IHad in the chants. He finds that the written spiritually for their vow to "carry kavati" and text is spoken...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 422–424.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of the three Buddhist vows Tibetan practitioners are expected to adopt and how they relate to vegetarianism. Chapter 2 explains that there were no explicit rules against meat-eating in the Buddhist monastic codes ( vinaya ), yet there was still vigorous debate about the interpretation of these rules. The third...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1083–1105.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Anthropology Center . San Man Ne . 2005 . Thit-Sa-Taing Duwae ( Duwae Vows). Yangon : Yone-Kyi-Chet Sar-pe . Naung Man Thint . 2006a . Thit-sa Taing-Ti Thone-su-thau Duwae Zedi (The Three Duwae Pagodas for Making Vows). Yangon : Yone-Kyi-Chat Sar-Pe . Naung Man Thint . 2006b...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 November 1981
... the vows of sexual continence and noninjury to sentient beings that are so readily associated in Western minds with Hindu asceticism. The apparent contradiction implied by the presence of a caste of renouncers leads one to query both the status of the married Sannyasi as renouncers as well as their social...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 628–629.
Published: 01 May 2011
... are attributed to Kōtai First, there is Tiruppāvai (“The Holy Vow/Prize”), thirty verses which trace the progress of a group of young village women as they leave their homes on a winter morning to fulfill their vows — not by fasting and bathing in the cold river, but by awakening one another and together...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 253–270.
Published: 01 February 1979
.... Throughout the year, those who are ill with the specific affliction that the god or goddess is thought to cure make vows (nertti) to these deities. If they recover they are supposed to present vow-fulfillment (nerttikatan); this may be done by purchasing new items for the temple rites, arranging...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 875–877.
Published: 01 August 1995
... for the most part Bengalispeaking, of mature years, and female. Before departure all underwent preliminary rituals, some obscure, others clear in meaning. Vows were taken to finish the course once it had been begun. There were vows to abstain, on the road, from meat and intoxicants and sex and violence...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 27–43.
Published: 01 November 1977
... in addition to Jejuri claim to be Khaṇḍobā's original place, Jejuri's claim is most widely accepted and is undisputed in the northern cult. 31 A navas is a vow made to Khaṇḍobā to perform some service or extraordinary fear for him in return for which he grants a request. The requests are usually...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 474–475.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Buddhist landscape. She has given us engaging and consistently insightful discussions of practices—divination, repentance, ritual, asceticism, and vows—that will be of interest to scholars across the fields of religious and cultural studies. As the title indicates, this book revolves around conceptions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 168–171.
Published: 01 November 1981
... rules on samnydsin were compiled in written form, diverse ascetic sects have been founded whose vows and precepts bear little relation to those laid down by Brahmans in the sdstra. There are ascetic sects that are not vegetarian (Aghorl PanthI); that do not prescribe a symbolic death at initiation...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1950) 9 (4): 398–399.
Published: 01 August 1950
... of Taoism was developing. Kumarajiva (344 413), a great teacher of Mahayana Buddhism, was brought to Ch'ang-an as a prize of war in 402 and treated as a precious jewel. Chao became his pupil and took vows and so has been known as Seng Chao, Monk Chao. Monk Chao was one of the four chief disciples...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 496–497.
Published: 01 May 1998
... The error in "And the Master grieves for this guest from afar" (p. 136) is easily corrected: "Yuan" is not "afar," but Hui-yiian, who, as the title/preface (translated in n. 15) reminds us, vowed never to cross the stream outside his hermitage but broke this vow when he was seeing off T'ao Ch'ien...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1120–1121.
Published: 01 November 1997
..., specifically, the death of Ravana via this medium (instead of, for example, the popular Kathakali); why this performance genre of the Rama story becomes such an important venue for exchange of vows and blessings. How do the donors interpret the significance of the performance beyond that of a venue for vows...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 428–429.
Published: 01 February 1985
... the concept of karmic retribution. Eleven anthropologists have contributed articles seeking "to locate the meaning of karma in use" (p. 287). The cultural contexts analyzed range from divination rituals, village arguments, and sermons to local epics, instruction manuals for devotional vows, and astrological...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 575–576.
Published: 01 May 1984
... retribution. Eleven anthropologists have contributed articles seeking "to locate the meaning of karma in use" (p. 287). The cultural contexts analyzed range from divination rituals, village arguments, and sermons to local epics, instruction manuals for devotional vows, and astrological guidebooks. Editorial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (2): 421–422.
Published: 01 February 1969
..., initiate, and initiation, together with its procedural accesories, mandalas, vows and pledges (the translation of samaya by 'pledge' and samvara by 'vow' is a highly felicitous one). The book concludes with the complete Index of Sanskrit and Tibetan works referred to and quoted in the text (pp. 338-50...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (2): 422–423.
Published: 01 February 1969
..., mandalas, vows and pledges (the translation of samaya by 'pledge' and samvara by 'vow' is a highly felicitous one). The book concludes with the complete Index of Sanskrit and Tibetan works referred to and quoted in the text (pp. 338-50), an overly brief selection of western works (pp. 350-51) and finally...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 460–462.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., killed the caliph, and smothered the “golden age of Islam.” This time, Saddam vowed, the invading hordes would “commit suicide on [Baghdad's] walls.” 1 His reference made headlines, with much of the global media tracking America's post-9/11 war machine perplexed. They needn't have been so...
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