Browsing by Subject "Buddhism"

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    Buddhist Revelations in Davaakhuugin Soyolmaa’s Contemporary Mongolian Art
    (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) Tsultem, Uranchimeg; Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair of International Studies, Herron School of Art and Design
    In 1990, a seven-decade socialist taboo on religion was lifted in newly transforming Mongolia, where democratic reforms and a peaceful transition to a market economy and multiparty government system were taking place. The country entered into a critical period of transition in 1992, when revisions to the constitution changed the Mongolian People’s Republic into the Republic of Mongolia. While political studies of this transitional period have been conducted, along with studies of the economic boost of 2008, very little has been written about Mongolian art since 1990. This essay explores that relatively untrodden ground by focusing on contemporary artist Davaakhuugin Soyolmaa (b. 1977) (figure 1), whose work exemplifies the revival of Buddhist art and culture in contemporary Mongolia.
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    Is there a global bioethics? End-of-life in Thailand and the case for local difference
    (2006-10) Stonington, Scott; Rattanakun, Phinit
    Debates the universal application of bioethical principles, using an example where a Thai physician refuses to remove life support from a brain dead patient.
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    Street Vending and Design Thinking: A Provocation
    (2011) Sernsukskul, Sareena; Sanematsu, Helen
    The spontaneity of make/do culture of street vendors in Bangkok is an example of the practice of integrative thinking and contextual praxis that predates and parallels the postmodern integrative and contextual advocacies of Design Thinking. It is materialized as resourcefulness and flexibility in the eclectic creation of vending stalls whether mobile or otherwise, and also as the improvisational intervention of street vendors in public space. It taps into the indigenous cultural condition of Buddhism of ‘an aware mind’ which according to Julia Cameron is the state of creativity. Contemporary designers can learn from the practices of the street vendors in Thailand. As such, Thai street vending reveals a link between Thai culture and Buddhism, and Design Thinking.