This paper applies the saliency map of attention model on Thangka image detection for the first time. Making contrast with some detection methods, an automatic detection algorithm is proposed to segment the headdress area of buddha in Thangka portrait image. Firstly, attention model is applied to calculate salient value of each pixel. Then, through using the detection method for back-light area...

THIS PAPER WILL PRESENT some rhetorical and discursive elements in oral versions of the history of the Kālacakratantra as currently presented by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Focusing on the definition of the Kālacakra’s “word of the Buddha” (buddha vacana), the paper will show how the Fourteenth Dalai Lama constructs an innovative version in his teachings, manifesting the relations between the es...

It is shown that the nonlinear mapping relation between a surface gravity wave spectrum and its SAR image spectrum, as derived by Hasselmann and Hasselmann [1], is not complete. The reason for this is that the velocity bunching effect is so nonlinear that effects of skewness and kurtosis are as important as the nonlinear terms already retained in the Hasselmann and Hasselmann approach. An analy...

This article is concerned with the question of whether Pāli Buddhism endorses vegetarianism and therefore whether a good Buddhist ought to abstain from eating meat. A prima facie case for vegetarianism will be presented that relies upon textual citation in which the Buddha stipulates that a good Buddhist must encourage others not to kill. The claim that the Buddha endorses vegetarianism, howeve...

The Five Buddha Districts system prevailed from the 1790s to the 1880s on the frontier between Yunnan, in Southwest China, and the Burmese Kingdom, in the mountainous areas to the west of the Mekong River. Through more than a century of political mobilization, the Lahu communities in this area became an integrated and militarized society, and their culture was reconstructed in the historical co...

The goal of the Bamiyan project of the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich, started in July 2001, is the terrain modeling of the area, the 3D reconstruction of the two lost Buddha statues in Bamiyan as well the actual empty niches and the documentation of the UNESCO cultural heritage site with a topographic and tourist information system. Different types of images, with differen...

Buddhism currently enjoys the reputation of being one of the leading voices in a chorus that sings the praises of religious tolerance and perhaps even of pluralism. It is open to question, however, whether this reputation is deserved. The purpose of the present article is to examine whether the teachings of classical Buddhism have a contribution to make to the jubilation over religious pluralis...

Early Buddhist karma is an impersonal moral force that impartially and inevitably causes the consequences of actions to be visited upon the actor, especially determining their afterlife destination. The story of King Ajātasattu in the Pāli Samaññaphala Sutta, where not even the Buddha can intervene to save him, epitomizes the criterion of inescapability. Zoroastrian ethical thought runs along s...