This paper examines the Buddhist perspective on other religions with special reference to substantial accounts reflected in the Pāli canon (which is the primary source of the Theravada Buddhism). In addition, canonical ...

The Researcher will use Ethnographic approach, utilizing in-depth interview of the key informants, participant-observation and triangulation. Key informants include the folks of Malolos, Bulacan who participate in ...

The statue near the Potgul Vihara at Polonnaruva has been considered as an excellent work of art. However, the identification of the statue has hitherto been ambiguous though it has been attempted to identify either as a ...

There are some three quarters of a million, mostly mountain-dwelling, people speaking one or another dialect of the Lahu language and residing in the uplands that characterize much of the borderlands of South Western Yunnan ...

forms of religious authority operate with respect to a class of ritual therapies for a negative horoscopic condition called nagadosham (snake blemish) in three spaces: Hindu temples in the United States, the renowned Hindu ...

It is commonly accepted that though religious in nature, popular religiosity is culture bound since it is a form of expression that is essentially influenced by ethnic patterns such as values, traditions and institutions. ...

There is no sharp line between “natural patrimony” and “cultural heritage” and commonly, sites or objects of primarily natural provenance may come to be ascribed with religious significance. Great cataracts - and sometimes ...

In 1902 the publicist, folklorist, historian, political activist and religious rebel Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino (1864–1938) proclaimed the establishment of an independent national Philippine church – the Iglesia ...