Revival of Buddhist Dhamma in modern India

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and the question of Kashmir

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Buddha Dhamma

Social change in Dhammadikshit Buddhists

The role of Mahatma Phule in the Reformation Movement

Empowerment of Buddhist women

The relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s creative program

Human rights and the Buddha Dhamma

Rashtrasant in the national movement

The film The Small Back Room was written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and released in 1949. It is the wartime tale of an injured and embittered back-room scientist, who is recruited to help combat a new kind of explosive device. Based on Nigel Balchin’s 1943 novel, the film significantly alters the story’s climactic seq…[Read more]

Gorbatschow – 2nd ed.(with bibliography) – 90 Jahre und kein bischen närrisch. Schreib-Übung zu einer arte-ARD-Doku. – German, English, Russian -x-

Anhang:
– M.S. Gorbatschow: Perestroika and New Thinking. A Retrospective; 2./9. August 2021
– M.S. Gorbatschow: Rede, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, München, 10.12.2011
– Buike – Chasbu…[Read more]

BBWV E34 Gorbatschow. 90 Jahre und kein bischen närrisch – Schreib-Übung zu einer arte-ARD-Doku. Anhang:- M.S. Gorbatschow: Perestroika and New Thinking. A Retrospective; 2./9. August 2021- M.S. Gorbatschow: Rede, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, München, 10.12.2011- Buike – Chasbulatow – Ru(c)skoi : Die Russen wussten, daß Jelzin CIA-gesteuert war – a…[Read more]

The structure of fifth-century Athenian society remains largely unknown, as is the distribution of its citizens into different socio-political categories. Ancient literary sources mostly describe a society divided into élite and poor. However, the model of a society alternately dominated by
the élite and the ‘lower-class’ is to be recon…[Read more]

This paper publishes a ceramic bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a Parthian shot. Although it lacks archaeological provenance, the bowl can be dated to the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, and probably comes from northwestern Iran. It is, therefore, one of the few possible instances of a Parthian shot from the Arsacid Empire.

This chapter examines the rhetorical skills displayed by secondary (low–status)
characters in the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. “Rhetorical
skills” are here broadly understood as the abilities required to have one’s voice heard and
one’s opinion taken into account. These speaking abilities contribute to the socio–pol…[Read more]

How “expropriations” can save the social market economy

Over two percent of the Egyptian population perished during World War I due to starvation, malnutrition, and disease. Although technically neutral, Egypt was the staging ground for British and Dominion troops fighting the campaign against the Ottoman Empire. The prioritization of military needs led to government recruitment of civilian…[Read more]

A short essay on the different forms of money used in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Translated into German by Julia Linke.

An overview of taxation in ancient states.

One of the main arguments used to legitimise Christian military expansion in medieval Iberia was the location of the origin of the Christian Iberian kingdoms in the ancient Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (507–711), which established a notion of political continuity between these entities. The legitimacy of the Visigothic Kingdom was reflected in t…[Read more]