Articles

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Long form writing on figures, events, ideas and controversies across every tradition the atlas covers, distinct from the shorter facts on the subject's own page. An article takes on a single topic in depth, from a saint's life to a doctrinal dispute to the history of a sacred site, usually running well beyond what a fact card can hold.

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Brambles Where the Armies Camped

Bran, War and the Whistling Wood

Branches of a Single Revelation

Branches within a tradition

Brass, Bands and a Text That Is Doctrine

Brave in Daring, Brave in Not Daring

Breach Without Denunciation

Bread for the Returning Dead

Bread With No Time to Rise

Bread, Water, and Two Prayers That Never Change

Bread, Wine and a Farewell Meal

Breadthless Length

Breaking the Bronze Serpent

Breaking the Fortress, and Who Pays for It

Breaking the Gates

Breath as Vital Energy

Breath, energy and practice

Breathing as the Embryo Breathes

Breathing in Suffering, Breathing Out Relief

Breathwork Replaces LSD and Founds a New Field

Bres, Misrule, and the Return of Nuada

Brest 1596, and What the Union Preserved

Bricked Against the Earthquakes: How the Pagoda Was Rebuilt

Bridey Murphy and the Popular Past-Life Regression Boom

Bridge in Dream Interpretation

Bridget's Vision: How One Nativity Scene Changed Christian Art

Bridging Medicine and Martial Discipline

Bridging The Small Plates And The Abridgment

Brightness That Depends on Something

Brimstone

Bringing God into the Story of Esther

Bringing the I Ching into English

Bringing Women's Voices Into an Iasi Cathedral Choir

Britain's Strongest Result, for Thirty Years

Brittany's Servant of Death

Broken by Farmers, Rebuilt by a Marmalade Heir

Broken Teeth at Daksha's Sacrifice

Bronze Age Origins and Cretan Cult

Bronze as an Alloy and an Age

Bronze in Ritual and Divination

Bronze, and How Far It Travelled

Bronze, and the Trade That Carried It

Bronze, Script and the Making of a Mongol Style

Brorges, Prince Of Saturday In The Heptarchia

Brother to a Prophet

Brotherhoods, Baroque Carvers and What the Images Were For

Brothers at War, and the Siege That Made al-Ma'mun Caliph

Brown, Earth and Humility

Brunei's Dual Legal System of Sharia and Civil Law

Bruno Dagens And The Modern Study Of Mayamata

Buchheim Builds a Laboratory in His Basement and Medicine Gets an Experimental Science

Budai, and the Hope of the Dharma Renewed

Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

Buddhaghosa at the Great Monastery

Buddhaghosa's Stories, and the Route into English

Buddhahood in This Body, and Its Later Schools

Buddha-Nature in Grass and Trees: Zhanran's Extension of Tiantai Doctrine

Buddha-Nature, and the Argument Over Who Can Reach It

Buddhi and the Moment of Discernment

Buddhism Becomes an Established Feature of Japan Under Empress Suiko's Own Authority

Buddhism Has Heavens, and They Are Not the Goal

Buddhism That Builds Universities Instead of Withdrawing From the World

Buddhism Today

Buddhism, Aesthetics and the Anthropologists

Buddhism, Bon and the Religion of the Plateau

Buddhism's Organized Response to Haibutsu Kishaku

Budge's Acquisition, and the Thirty-seven Cuts

Budha and the Almanac

Budha: Mercury as Intellect and Speech

Budha-Aditya Yoga

Buhler Reads the Mathura Inscriptions and Proves the Jains Are Ancient

Building a Church Archive in the Open

Building a Clergy That Did Not Exist

Building a Movement Without a God

Building a Movement: The Society and Its Seminary

Building an Error Checking Machine from Voice Alone

Building an Institution Around a Recovery

Building From Gaps, and the Piety of the Attempt

Building Palaces Out of Memory

Building the Administrative Order