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| Top papers from your news feed from the last week  | The Long Littoral Project: Bay of Bengal by Nilanthi Samaranayake (Center for Naval Analyses) "This report addresses the major security issues associated with the Bay of Bengal. In this 838,600 square mile area, security threats to numerous countries, including the United States, range from disputes over exclusive economic zones to terrorism, piracy, poaching, overfishing, and trafficking of humans, arms, and narcotics. A review of the full spectrum of threats in the Bay of Bengal reveals two dominant security challenges: nascent China-India competition and the likelihood of a natural disaster. This report explores these issues in order to assess U.S. policy options for addressing... | | | Keynote address at the South Asia Maritime Security Conference: "The Indian Ocean's Importance in the 21st Century" by Nilanthi Samaranayake (Center for Naval Analyses) | | | Q&A: Understanding the Sri Lanka-China-India Triangle by Nilanthi Samaranayake (Center for Naval Analyses) |  | Texts and Textures of Early Japanese Buddhism: Female Patrons, Lay Scribes, and Buddhist Scripture in Eighth-Century Japan by Bryan Lowe (Vanderbilt University) | | | The Discipline of Writing: Scribes and Purity in Eighth-Century Japan by Bryan Lowe (Vanderbilt University) This article focuses on ritualized scribal practices in eighth-century Japan. It uses colophons, scriptorium documents, and narrative tales to explore how sutra copyists upheld vegetarian diets, performed ablutions, wore ritual gar- ments, and avoided contact with pollutants stemming from death and illness. Such practices, often described in terms of purity, spread widely on the Asian continent in the seventh century and reached Japan by the eighth century. This article argues that upholding purity was deeply connected to notions of ritual efficacy but also enabled pious lay scribes to... | | | Review of The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific, 2012. by Nilanthi Samaranayake (Center for Naval Analyses) | |
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