<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/feed/content/east-asia.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-05-10T07:41:21+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/feed/content/east-asia.xml</id><title type="html">The Open Buddhist University | Content | East Asia</title><subtitle>A website dedicated to providing free, online courses and bibliographies in Buddhist Studies. </subtitle><author><name>Khemarato Bhikkhu</name><uri>https://twitter.com/buddhistuni</uri></author><entry><title type="html">Ikebana</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/ikebana_song-cathy" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Ikebana" /><published>2025-04-15T18:24:21+07:00</published><updated>2025-04-15T18:24:21+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/ikebana_song-cathy</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/ikebana_song-cathy"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>How poised it is!<br />
Petal and leaf<br />
curving like a fan</p>
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  <p>Yellow Bull: ‘Didn’t you tell me you were a ghost?’<br />
Ghost: ‘People can be afraid of other people.
And dogs can be afraid of dogs, can’t they?’</p>
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<p>A collage of characters from street dogs to a hand model, from an amputee to religious statues all find themselves lost in Saṃsāra.</p>]]></content><author><name>Singing Chen (陳芯宜)</name></author><category term="av" /><category term="east-asia" /><category term="film" /><category term="bart" /><category term="taiwan" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Yellow Bull: ‘Didn’t you tell me you were a ghost?’ Ghost: ‘People can be afraid of other people. And dogs can be afraid of dogs, can’t they?’]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tcld9YDsL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tcld9YDsL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Protests of a Good Wife and Wise Mother: The Medicalization of Distress in Japan</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/papers/protests-of-a-good-wife_lock-margaret" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Protests of a Good Wife and Wise Mother: The Medicalization of Distress in Japan" /><published>2025-04-08T21:33:49+07:00</published><updated>2025-04-08T21:33:49+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/papers/protests-of-a-good-wife_lock-margaret</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/papers/protests-of-a-good-wife_lock-margaret"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>Many modern Japanese women are bored with their lives and they use ‘organ language’ to express this frustration…</p>
</blockquote>

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  <p>Medication and the small life-style modifications suggested by professionals for some women no doubt often help to ease the sense of oppression that patients experience. At the same time, medicalization can act as an ‘opiate,’ and can deflect attention away from the social origins of distress.</p>
</blockquote>]]></content><author><name>Margaret Lock</name></author><category term="papers" /><category term="east-asia" /><category term="gender" /><category term="medicine" /><category term="social" /><category term="psychology" /><category term="inner" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Many modern Japanese women are bored with their lives and they use ‘organ language’ to express this frustration…]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Factors Influencing Chopstick Use and an Objective Identification of Traditional Holding Techniques in Children</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/factors-influencing-chopstick-use_choji-yuki-et-al" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Factors Influencing Chopstick Use and an Objective Identification of Traditional Holding Techniques in Children" /><published>2025-03-10T12:51:23+07:00</published><updated>2025-03-10T12:51:23+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/factors-influencing-chopstick-use_choji-yuki-et-al</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/factors-influencing-chopstick-use_choji-yuki-et-al"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>Despite the fact that over 80% of parents reported teaching their children how to use chopsticks, a mere 9.7% of children exhibited correct chopstick-holding technique.</p>
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
  <p>While chopstick education is predominantly conducted within Japanese households, the increasing prevalence of nuclear families and dual-income households suggests a decline in intergenerational transmission of chopstick education.</p>
</blockquote>]]></content><author><name>Yuki Choji</name></author><category term="articles" /><category term="east-asia" /><category term="chubu" /><category term="culture" /><category term="capitalism" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Despite the fact that over 80% of parents reported teaching their children how to use chopsticks, a mere 9.7% of children exhibited correct chopstick-holding technique.]]></summary></entry></feed>