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Western Buddhism. The Czech Republic
Honzík, Jan ; Holba, Jiří (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Bělka, Luboš (referee)
UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE Fakulta humanitních studií Katedra Obecné antropologie Mgr. Jan Honzík BUDDHISMUS NA ZÁPADĚ ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA Disertační práce Školitel práce: PhDr. Jiří Holba, Ph.D. Praha 2014 Abstract This paper discusses Buddhism in the Czech Republic. It deals with Buddhism as a complex phenomenon consisiting of philosophical, religious, socio-cultural, psychological and ethical planes. These categories are related to the basic structures of human existence and therefore are subject to a science of humanity - anthropology. In this sense, the paper is presented as anthropological work. The first chapter, entitled "Buddhism from Buddha to the present" introduces the major Buddhist schools, their common resources, basic teachings, characteristics, specifics and development. Furthermore, the chapter describes the process of Buddhism establishing in the West up to the present and explores the fundamental features of contemporary Western Buddhism. The second chapter, entitled "Buddhism in the Czech Republic" deals with the history of Buddhism in the Czech Republic and maps the current Czech Buddhist scene. It provides an overview of Czech Buddhist groups, centers and charitable initiatives, looking into their values, practices, methods, regular activities and their relationship to the Buddhist...
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Cartographic Aspects of Remote Sensing Materials
Bělka, Luboš
Orthophotographic projection of territory (orthophotomap) as a basic and special geographic product is the main subject of the thesis. The research is focused on a proper orthophotomap and its components definitions, methods and technology of the orthophotomap production. This thesis deals and evaluates remote sensing materials for orthophotomaps production, topographic and thematic orthophotomaps content and visualization means for the content portrayal harmonizing both image and symbol components. The main thesis aims are as follows: - evaluation of current orthophotomap production and its applications, - methodology composition of the orthophotomap production, - presentation of possible variants of topographic and thematic orthophotomaps applicable mainly to state and municipal purposes in the Czech Republic, - motivation towards a professional discussion about the topic issues including basic orthophotomap concepts, visualization methods, etc.
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Western Buddhism. The Czech Republic
Honzík, Jan ; Holba, Jiří (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Bělka, Luboš (referee)
UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE Fakulta humanitních studií Katedra Obecné antropologie Mgr. Jan Honzík BUDDHISMUS NA ZÁPADĚ ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA Disertační práce Školitel práce: PhDr. Jiří Holba, Ph.D. Praha 2014 Abstract This paper discusses Buddhism in the Czech Republic. It deals with Buddhism as a complex phenomenon consisiting of philosophical, religious, socio-cultural, psychological and ethical planes. These categories are related to the basic structures of human existence and therefore are subject to a science of humanity - anthropology. In this sense, the paper is presented as anthropological work. The first chapter, entitled "Buddhism from Buddha to the present" introduces the major Buddhist schools, their common resources, basic teachings, characteristics, specifics and development. Furthermore, the chapter describes the process of Buddhism establishing in the West up to the present and explores the fundamental features of contemporary Western Buddhism. The second chapter, entitled "Buddhism in the Czech Republic" deals with the history of Buddhism in the Czech Republic and maps the current Czech Buddhist scene. It provides an overview of Czech Buddhist groups, centers and charitable initiatives, looking into their values, practices, methods, regular activities and their relationship to the Buddhist...
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Contemporary Forms of Buryatian Shamanism
Havlíček, Marek Aurel ; Kašpar, Oldřich (advisor) ; Bělka, Luboš (referee) ; Fukas, Andrej (referee)
RESUMÉ V ANGLICKÉM JAZYCE Since the 1980s, a revival of religious traditions, whose continuity was disrupted considerably in the Soviet-era Russia, has been in motion in the entire area of Siberia and Central Asia, among the so called 'rooted nations'. While major religious groups, such as buddhism and islam, could successfully pick up the threads of their religious traditions thanks to their written resources; religions based mainly on oral transmission are facing the opposite situation, shamanism not being an exception. Intense tension coming from the spirituality of their own ethnic traditions, which spontaneously opened after many years of the Communist secularization, in the case of shamanism hit the barriers of how to adequately re- establish the disrupted traditions (lack of living bearers and experts on their own traditions, initiated and uninitiated shamans, and other ceremony specialists, ignorance of symbolism). The whole process of rebirth, revival or revitalisation of shamanism is entirely consistent with the context of current issues concerning constituent societies, which naturally carries the legacy of Soviet culture. Political and economic changes in the post- Soviet space also enabled the bearers of traditions to become open to a wide range of new influences from abroad. Revitalization...
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Cartographic Aspects of Remote Sensing Materials
Bělka, Luboš ; Voženílek, Vít (advisor) ; Brázdil, Karel (referee) ; Talhofer, Václav (referee)
Kartografické aspekty materiálů dálkového průzkumu Země Cartographic Aspects of Remote Sensing Materials Disertační práce Mgr. Luboš Bělka ABSTRAKT Předmětem disertační práce je komplexní výzkum tvorby kartografických děl obsahujících materiály dálkového průzkumu Země. Autor se zaměřuje na ortofotografické zobrazení území (ortofotomapa) z pohledu základního a účelového geografického produktu. Disertační práce se zabývá výchozími podklady a metodami tvorby ortofotomap, základním (topografickým) a účelovým (tematickým) obsahem ortofotomap a zobrazovacími prostředky pro jeho vyjádření při vyváženém použití obrazové a znakové složky. Hlavním cílem disertační práce je vyhodnocení současné tvorby ortofotomap, včetně jejich kritického posouzení, sestavení metodiky jejich tvorby a formou případových studií předložit možné varianty tvorby perspektivních ortofotomap zejména pro účely státní správy a územní samosprávy a motivovat k odborné diskuzi k problémovým otázkám včetně základních konceptů ortofotomap, zobrazovacím metodám apod. KLÍČOVÁ SLOVA: ortofotomapa, kartografie, geoinformatika, dálkový průzkum Země, obsah ortofotomapy ABSTRACT Orthophotographic projection of territory (orthophotomap) as a basic and special geographic product is the main subject of the thesis. The research is focused on a proper...
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The Thangkas - Tibetian Paintings with a Story
Gyaltso, Lenka ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Bělka, Luboš (referee)
Thangkas are Tibetan paintings which can be explained in many different points of view. Their meaning is different for Buddhist practitioners, painters, collecters, arts historians or researchers. This thesis should introduce the variaty of perspectives. The composition of the painting is given by the patron, artist or follows the Buddhist sacred scripts. Preparing the base, drawing, using colour pigments, outlining and doing final details belong to the process done by the master himself or partially by his students or monk or layman helpers. For impowering the thangka for the Buddhist praxis is necessary to do a sacrification ceremony by an educated monk. It is a religious and also social event connected with the painting. Thangkas are then used for the visualisation of figures of the Tibetan pantheon, mostly peaceful and wrathful deities. They are used in the monasteries, temples, home shrines or altars, are part of Buddhist ceremonies and festivals shown to the audience hung on the terraces or carried by the monks. Their vivid topics and colours encharme not only monks and lamas but also laymen. The expression differs according to local schools influenced by artists of Kashimiri, Bengali, Nepalese or Chinese origin. Tibetan painting style was probably created in the second half of 15th century...
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Cartographic Aspects of Remote Sensing Materials
Bělka, Luboš
Orthophotographic projection of territory (orthophotomap) as a basic and special geographic product is the main subject of the thesis. The research is focused on a proper orthophotomap and its components definitions, methods and technology of the orthophotomap production. This thesis deals and evaluates remote sensing materials for orthophotomaps production, topographic and thematic orthophotomaps content and visualization means for the content portrayal harmonizing both image and symbol components. The main thesis aims are as follows: - evaluation of current orthophotomap production and its applications, - methodology composition of the orthophotomap production, - presentation of possible variants of topographic and thematic orthophotomaps applicable mainly to state and municipal purposes in the Czech Republic, - motivation towards a professional discussion about the topic issues including basic orthophotomap concepts, visualization methods, etc.
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Buddhism as Value Source in the Course of New Identities and Lifestyles Formation in the Czech Republic
Cirklová, Jitka ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Lužný, Dušan (referee) ; Bělka, Luboš (referee)
The text, which is divided into ten chapters, deals with the form and orientation of the Czech Buddhist community. At the beginning, the thesis presents a short overview of Buddhism interpretations by Western science, culture and society. We present the ways of and reasons for popularization of Buddhism in Western cultural environment and provide the issues which attract attention of professional public and which have been explored within various scientific fields. The paper introduces research into the current Western Buddhism, which is understood as an independent form of Buddhism rather than a direct continuation of Asian Buddhist lines and schools. The dissertation thesis therefore uses the discussions and foreign studies focusing on the mapping of ways of interpretation and application of Buddhist ideas in the Western cultural environment.. Our study endeavours to understand better the dynamics of the domains of current religion and describe them. The field survey concentrated on Buddhist groups as well as individuals. Subsequently, the text evaluates their interaction and the process of forming of a group and an individual. The first stage of research provided us with more complex data on the institutional background formed by Czech Buddhist groups on which the respondents draw. The following second...
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The Ten kings and Chinese Buddhist hells
Kocurek, Jakub ; Holba, Jiří (referee) ; Bělka, Luboš (advisor)
Tato práce se zabývá čínskými buddhistickými pekly a s nimi spjatým konceptem Deseti králů. Koncept sám je výsledkem syntézy čínských předbuddhistických představ s těmi buddhistickými pocházejícími z Indie i Střední Asie. Nejdříve je popsáno rané čínské pojetí duše, jejího posmrtného údělu a podsvětí. Jelikož se jedná o originální čínský koncept zahrnující nejen čínské, ale také buddhistické představy, pojednává se rovněž o vzniku a vývoji pojetí buddhistických pekel. U nich si práce všímá jejich původu v indických náboženských tradicích i pozdějších proměn v různých vývojových fázích buddhismu. Podrobněji se zaobírá postavami boha Jamy a bódhisattvy Kšitigarbhy vytvářejících spojovací článek mezi různými vývojovými fázemi i jednotlivými náboženskými okruhy. U samotné koncepce Deseti králů se práce zabývá nejen jejím vznikem, vývojem a strukturou, ale i o dostupnými prameny a to jak obrazovými, tak textovými. U obou typů pramenů popisuje jejich typologizace, historii a rovněž roli v náboženském životě. Představa o Deseti králích je tak zasazena do širšího kontextu, je dokumentován původ a vývoj jejích jednotlivých součástí. Práce tak ukazuje charakteristickou vlastnost čínské kultury organicky přijímat a začleňovat cizí vlivy do vlastní tradice za vzniku nových, originálních konceptů.
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The ethnolinguistic aspects of the latest religious development in Mongolia
Jiráková, Edita ; Luvsandorj, Jugder (advisor) ; Zikmundová, Veronika (referee) ; Bělka, Luboš (referee)
Since the collapse of the communist regime in Mongolia in the beginning of 1990, the country opened itself to external world in many various aspects. In this respect, the Christian missionaries became one of the most visible signs of the process of democratization. However, linguistic problems associated with the newly introduced Christian terminology started to play a decisive role soon. During the 90's of the 20th century several Mongolian Versions of New Testament were published, from which the translation made by the Mongolian Bible Translation Committee and another one by J. Gibbens' team are of the greatest importance. These versions are far from having any connection to each other , thus completely dissimilar terminology is applied in both of them. It is my intention through this thesis, to deal with the problems of disunity of the key Biblical vocabulary in the present day Mongolian language. With respect to comprehensiveness, I describe briefly the resent state or level of the spread of Christian teaching in the country, where data collected within my field research undertaken in three phases between 1997 and 2002 are used. Considering a cultural and geographical connections, the problems of Christian terminology in China are also mentioned. 1t is then possible on this basis to make an overview and...
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