Shown by the Marron’s Claw: Ecological Receptivity as Mindful Praxis

Autor: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko

Publikováno v: Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol 25, Iss 1 (2024)

On the wooded hillside of the Origins Centre, a small retreat centre in Western Australia with a strong ethos of active care, the appearance of native animals, especially those that are scarce or sporadic, is interpreted as indicative of spiritual an

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Plastic Asia

Autor: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Trine Brox

Publikováno v: The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 40, Iss 1 (2022)

This introduction to the special issue of Plastic Asia emphasises the ambiguous and unsettling materiality of plastics. It describes how in Asian contexts, the relationships between plastics, purity and pollution are complex: simultaneously promising

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/9f0cff96da6f4744959d9da4b4610d8a

The wheel-turning king and the lucky lottery: perspectives new and old on wealth and merriment within Buddhism

Autor: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Matthew D. Milligan

Publikováno v: Journal of Contemporary Religion
Abrahms-Kavunenko, S A & Milligan, M 2021, ' The Wheel-Turning King and the Lucky Lottery : Perspectives New and Old on Wealth and Merriment within Buddhism ', Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 265-286 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2021.1954762

By placing a contemporary pilgrimage of Myanmar Buddhists to Bodh Gaya in India in conversation with early Buddhist doctrine and practice, this article argues that wealth, its redistribution and celebration, have provided, and continue to provide, no

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https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2021.1954762

Tenuous blessings: The materiality of doubt in a Mongolian buddhist wealth calling ceremony

Autor: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko

Publikováno v: Journal of Material Culture. 25:153-166

The ritual vases or bumba that are involved in a secretive Buddhist ceremony in Mongolia highlight the theoretical potential of centralizing material objects which instantiate doubt in anthropological theory. The uncertainties around the contents of

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183519857042

Regeneration and the Age of Decline: Purification and Rebirth in Mongolian Buddhist Economies

Autor: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko

Publikováno v: Monks, Money, and Morality

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https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350213791.ch00-10