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diff --git a/...tent/articles/belief-traps-tackling-inertia-of-harmful_scheffer-marten-et-al.md b/...tent/articles/belief-traps-tackling-inertia-of-harmful_scheffer-marten-et-al.md
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ pages: 10
 openalexid: W4285726648
 ---
 
+How to change your mind, according to science.
+
 > Beliefs can be highly resilient in the sense that they are not easily abandoned in the face of counterevidence.
 > This has the advantage of guiding consistent behavior and judgments but may also have destructive consequences for individuals, nature, and society.
 > For instance, pathological beliefs can sustain psychiatric disorders, the belief that rhinoceros horn is an aphrodisiac may drive a species extinct, beliefs about gender or race may fuel discrimination, and belief in conspiracy theories can undermine democracy.

diff --git a/_content/articles/deaths-of-ea_wenar-leif.md b/_content/articles/deaths-of-ea_wenar-leif.md
@@ -7,9 +7,13 @@ source_url: "https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HgJ71h2C_06T1FcESn2tETO1ownlnfQF/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: intellect
+status: featured
 tags:
-  - social
+  - society
   - dana
+  - charity
+  - silicon-valley
+  - neoliberalism
 year: 2024
 month: apr
 journal: "Wired"

diff --git a/...tent/articles/dharani-and-spells-medieval-sinitic-buddhism_mcbride-richard-d.md b/...tent/articles/dharani-and-spells-medieval-sinitic-buddhism_mcbride-richard-d.md
@@ -6,14 +6,18 @@ external_url: "https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jiabs/article/dow
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mExpZ7Ro9fSZX4accy66vkDP78R73JqL/view?usp=sharing"
 course: medieval
+status: featured
 tags:
   - dharani
-  - east-asian-roots
+  - mahayana-roots
 year: 2005
 journal: jiabs
 volume: 28
 number: 1
 pages: "85--114"
 ---
 
-A nuanced view of dhāraṇī and spells during the Sui Dynasty period through the end of the Tang, roughly 500–907 C.E focusing on three Chinese intellectuals: Jingying Huiyuan (523–592), Daoshi (596–683), and Amoghavajra (705-774).
+> Virtuosity in chanting spells and working miracles---particularly those associated with healing,
+protection, and other aspects of personal welfare---was an important quality for a monk to develop.
+
+A nuanced view of "spells" during the Sui Dynasty period through the end of the Tang, roughly 500–907 C.E focusing on three Chinese intellectuals---Jingying Huiyuan (523–592), Daoshi (596–683), and Amoghavajra (705-774)---asking how these figures would have understood Dhāraṇī in those days before the development of Buddhist Tantra.
diff --git a/_content/articles/elephant-good-to-think_ohnuma-reiko.md b/_content/articles/elephant-good-to-think_ohnuma-reiko.md
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ course: animals
 tags:
   - imagery
   - hermeneutics
+  - lit-crit
   - pali-commentaries
-  - buddha
 year: 2013
 journal: jiabs
 volume: 35
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ the previous animal rebirth of an eventual human being. There is
 something powerful, I contend, about the mute presence of such an
 animal—its noble silence, its freedom from the glibness of human language
 
-Using the story of the Buddha's stay in the Pārileyyaka forest, this article highlights the use and importance of animals in Buddhist literature and Indian literature more generally. The author brings together much of past research on the use of anmials in Buddhist literature, adding her own insights.
+On how Pali and other Indian literature used animals as both stand-ins for and foils of its human characters.
diff --git a/_content/articles/gandharan-stupa-lotus-sutra_karashima-seishi.md b/_content/articles/gandharan-stupa-lotus-sutra_karashima-seishi.md
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ source_url: "https://iriab.soka.ac.jp/content/pdf/aririab/Vol.%20XXI%20(2018).pd
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1giOp-HGYbIzAPgL5zp7cN0Ce9Yt3GoXf/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: east-asian-roots
+status: featured
 tags:
   - mahayana-canon
   - lotus-sutra
   - central-asian
+  - historiography
 month: mar
 year: 2018
 journal: aririab

diff --git a/_content/articles/how-to-deal-with-dangerous-and-annoying_heirman-ann.md b/_content/articles/how-to-deal-with-dangerous-and-annoying_heirman-ann.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ drive_links:
 course: animals
 tags:
   - vinaya-studies
+  - ethics
 year: 2019
 month: feb
 journal: "Religions"

diff --git a/_content/articles/out-group-animosity-drives-engagement-on_rathje-steve-et-al.md b/_content/articles/out-group-animosity-drives-engagement-on_rathje-steve-et-al.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024292118"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hQh99XbumH1tFR-Oqa9IDtPVjsZP8KgZ/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: media
+status: featured
 tags:
   - social-media
   - groups

diff --git a/_content/articles/prehinayanist-buddhism-in-the-pali_fallick-eric.md b/_content/articles/prehinayanist-buddhism-in-the-pali_fallick-eric.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ number: 1
 pages: "35--38"
 course: epistemology
 tags:
-  - abhidhamma
+  - indian
 ---
 
 > … whatever (is) seen, heard, or thought, the good say 'putting down'

diff --git a/_content/articles/study-on-literacy-rate-of-buddhist-monks_wu-shanshan.md b/_content/articles/study-on-literacy-rate-of-buddhist-monks_wu-shanshan.md
@@ -7,15 +7,16 @@ source_url: "https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100992"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SJLE8-_zXBlUZ28Ey5GZRbJmrusDVJjT/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: medieval
+status: featured
 tags:
   - historiography
   - writing
 year: 2022
 month: oct
 journal: "Religions (Basel)"
 volume: 13
-number: 10
-pages: "992--992"
+number: 992
+pages: 25
 publisher: "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute"
 openalexid: W4306963966
 ---

diff --git a/_content/av/as-it-is_bodhi.md b/_content/av/as-it-is_bodhi.md
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ course: philosophy
 status: featured
 tags:
   - theravada
-  - abhidhamma
 base_value: 1.1
 year: 1981
 minutes: 797

diff --git a/...nd-buddhas-politics-humor-in-vessantara-jataka-in-thailand_bowie-katherine-a.md b/...nd-buddhas-politics-humor-in-vessantara-jataka-in-thailand_bowie-katherine-a.md
@@ -5,16 +5,20 @@ authors:
 subcat: podcast
 external_url: "https://newbooksnetwork.com/katherine-a-bowie-of-beggars-and-buddhas-the-politics-of-humor-in-the-vessantara-jataka-in-thailand-u-wisconsin-press-2017/"
 course: rebirth-stories
+status: featured
 tags:
   - thai
   - literature
   - humor
+  - thai-ideology
 year: 2018
 month: jul
 publisher: nbn
 minutes: 43
 ---
 
-Narrative devices, such as humor and political themes, found in the retelling of the jātaka story of Prince Vessantara and the beggar Jujaka.
+> Chuchok fits into this genre of "Thai trickster figures."
+When you think about the story not from the perspective of Vessantara but from the perspective of the peasantry, think about how amazing it is that a peasant would even think to ask a member of the royal family for their two children to be his wife's servants!
+It's absurd! 
 
-Bowie describes how her first reaction to the tale was to ignore it, given the questionable actions of Vessantara, who even went so far as to give his wife and children away to a beggar. However, upon further research, she discovered that the retelling of this tale in northern Thailand contained humor via political satire and antiroyalist themes. In this interview, Bowies relates the historical reasons for this type of retelling, the challenges it faced, and how it changed over the centuries.
+The humor and political themes found in the Northern Thai retellings of the Vessantara (Jujaka?) Jātaka.
diff --git a/_content/av/zombie-statistics_maintenance-phase.md b/_content/av/zombie-statistics_maintenance-phase.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ source_url: "https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/maintenance-phase/zombie-stati
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q127595R4CP1O5h5Tl7eu27iaOxeTr4w/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: intellect
+status: featured
 tags:
   - science
   - medicine

diff --git a/_content/booklets/cloth-and-effacement-suttas_nyanaponika.md b/_content/booklets/cloth-and-effacement-suttas_nyanaponika.md
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - meditation
   - stages
   - thought
-  - abhidhamma
 year: 1963
 olid: OL13056097M
 series: wheel

diff --git a/_content/booklets/comprehensive-first-aid_red-cross.md b/_content/booklets/comprehensive-first-aid_red-cross.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ external_url: "https://www.redcross.ca/crc/documents/comprehensive_guide_for_fir
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QILETNGFccWogAmewRAZ8LdvPxUDwR-_/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: body
+status: featured
 tags:
   - medicine
   - world

diff --git a/_content/canon/ds.md b/_content/canon/ds.md
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ address: "London"
 pages: 449
 ---
 
-This work is an early English translation of the Pali Dhammasangaṇi, the first book of the Abhidhammapiṭaka.
+The first book of the Abhidhammapiṭaka.
 
 The book itself starts with a "matika," a list of classifications of dhammas, which are ideas or phenomena. It includes 22 three-fold and 100 two-fold classifications by the Abhidhamma method and 42 by the Sutta method. The main content is divided into four parts: the first covers states of mind, the second covers material phenomena, the third explains the matika classifications using the first two parts, and the fourth further elaborates on these classifications, excluding the Sutta method's two-fold classifications.
diff --git a/_content/canon/mn148.md b/_content/canon/mn148.md
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - emptiness
   - thought
   - theravada
-  - abhidhamma
 # buddha tag covered by Nyanamoli's *Life*
 year: 2018
 pages: 6

diff --git a/_content/canon/patthana.paccayuddesaniddesa.md b/_content/canon/patthana.paccayuddesaniddesa.md
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ year: 2013
 month: oct
 ---
 
-This work is a Pāli and English interlinear translation of the introduction to the Paṭṭhānapāḷi,  the last book of the Abhidhamma, which sets out the conditions of the mind.
+The introduction to the _Paṭṭhānapāḷi_,  the last book of the Abhidhamma, which sets out the conditions of the mind.
diff --git a/_content/canon/sn35.82.md b/_content/canon/sn35.82.md
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ tags:
   - imagery
   - vipassana
   - philosophy
-  - abhidhamma
   - phenomenology
   - dialogue
   - anicca

diff --git a/_content/essays/art-of-sitting_kalyano.md b/_content/essays/art-of-sitting_kalyano.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ external_url: "https://media.amaravati.org/en/dhamma-books/the-art-of-sitting"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sDr06sZPY4xMP5xRdVyxE5vzq-i-6n5m/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: meditation
+status: featured
 tags:
   - health
 year: 2018

diff --git a/_content/essays/mystique-of-abhidhamma_sujato.md b/_content/essays/mystique-of-abhidhamma_sujato.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ file_links:
   - "exclusive_01/The%20Mystique%20of%20the%20Abhidhamma%20-%20Sujato.pdf"
 source_url: "https://scdd.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/uploads/original/2X/b/b9847215f412d975d3ba898392b67d249af1d3df.pdf"
 year: 2010
+status: featured
 month: may
 course: abhidhamma
 tags: 

diff --git a/_content/essays/religion-medicine-medieval-chinese-buddhism_salguero-p.md b/_content/essays/religion-medicine-medieval-chinese-buddhism_salguero-p.md
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ pages: 26
 
 > Whereas the texts discussed in the first section generally argue for a stricter separation between these two domains, those in the second [Mahāyāna wave] strove to integrate medicine into the very heart of Buddhism.
 
-Rather than looking at Buddhist literature through the usual lenses of authorship and translation, Salguero focuses on the language, categories, and logics internal to the Buddhist texts themselves.
+On how the relief of _medical_ suffering became central to Mahāyāna Buddhism.
diff --git a/_content/essays/sanctuary-forgotten-buddhist-tradition_dhammika.md b/_content/essays/sanctuary-forgotten-buddhist-tradition_dhammika.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ external_url: "https://budblooms.org/2020/05/10/sanctuary-a-forgotten-buddhist-t
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1orJH7Rqp2RpdRDECiTFMCXBMJnXxgJ-P/view?usp=sharing"
 course: theravada-roots
+status: featured
 tags:
   - medieval
   - engaged
@@ -14,9 +15,9 @@ month: may
 pages: 2
 ---
 
-> An accused who was able to flee to
-the nearest monastery would be protected from such mob justice. Sanctuary would give the person an 
-opportunity to explain himself and allow his accusers to calm down so the facts could be examined more
+> An accused who was able to flee to
+the nearest monastery would be protected from such mob justice. Sanctuary would give the person an 
+opportunity to explain himself and allow his accusers to calm down so the facts could be examined more
 objectively. 
 
 > The Pali terms equivalent to sanctuary would be abhayatthana or pujjatthana. Sanctuary in Buddhist

diff --git a/_content/excerpts/facing-fear_tiyavanich.md b/_content/excerpts/facing-fear_tiyavanich.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ source_url: "https://archive.org/details/ForestRecollectionsWandering"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1beLH_yB1L6siY0Ss8qCEILUPb3cwzhF4/view?usp=sharing"
 course: animals
+status: featured
 tags:
   - thai
   - fear

diff --git a/_content/monographs/lost-kingdoms-hindu-buddhist-sculpture_guy-john.md b/_content/monographs/lost-kingdoms-hindu-buddhist-sculpture_guy-john.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ course: theravada-roots
 tags:
   - bart
   - sea
+  - historiography
 year: 2014
 olid: OL38368022M
 oclc: 871203082
@@ -18,4 +19,5 @@ pages: 305
 
 This exhibition catalog from The Met presents the religious sculptural arts of  Southeast Asia from the 5th through the 8th centuries CE.
 
-The work has many insightful essays from leading scholars in the fields of Hindu, Buddhist, and Southeast Asian studies. Besides looking at the artistic side of the sculptures, the included pieces and essays also tell the political and philosophical history of the region.
+Not just a catalogue of sculptures, the included essays by leading scholars explain much of what is known about the early history of Southeast Asian polities and their Indic religions.
+
diff --git a/_content/monographs/thinking-fast-and-slow_kahneman-daniel.md b/_content/monographs/thinking-fast-and-slow_kahneman-daniel.md
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ course: neuroscience
 tags:
   - psychology
   - intellect
-  - abhidhamma
-  - marketing
 pages: 482
 ---
 

diff --git a/_content/monographs/understanding-media_mcluhan.md b/_content/monographs/understanding-media_mcluhan.md
@@ -15,4 +15,7 @@ pages: 318
 
 > The medium is the message.
 
-The foundational text of media studies, McLuhan explained how the affordances of technologies themselves reshape the humans around them.
+The foundational text of media studies.
+
+McLuhan explained how the affordances of technologies themselves reshape the humans around them.
+
diff --git a/_content/papers/beautifully-moral_alastair-henry.md b/_content/papers/beautifully-moral_alastair-henry.md
@@ -9,13 +9,16 @@ drive_links:
 course: theravada-roots
 tags:
   - pali-literature
-  - sanskrit
-  - literature
-  - south-asia
+  - sri-lanka
 year: 2017
 from_book: sri-lanka-crossroads_ucl
 pages: "77--93"
 chapter: 4
 ---
 
-This book chapter explores ethics in Pāli literature, particularly during the medieval period in Sri Lanka. It delves into how moral values and cosmopolitan ideals were expressed and conveyed through literary works, shedding light on the intricate relationship between literature, morality, and societal values especially in medieval, Theravāda literature.
+> medieval Pāli literary culture can be
+viewed as a form of qualified cosmopolitanism: one that advanced many of the
+cosmopolitan literary ideals of its time but also staunchly protected its exclusively
+Buddhist identity.
+
+On how Pali literature in medieval Sri Lanka responded to Sanskrit's regional hegemony.
diff --git a/_drafts/2024-07-21-asalha-puja.md b/_drafts/2024-07-21-asalha-puja.md
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+---
+title: "Happy Āsāḷha Pūjā!"
+---
+
+Today is Āsāḷha Pūjā, the last day before the annual rains retreat, and to celebrate the occasion I'm happy to announce a significant expansion of our _free_ library into the history of Buddhism and the workings of the mind with the launch of **seven** new bibliographies: 
+
+# Medieval Buddhism
+We can divide the history of Buddhism very roughly into three periods: its early growth in India, its spread across Asia, and finally its global spread in the modern era.
+Building on our earlier bibliographies covering the [first](/tags/indian) and [last](/tags/west) of these periods, today I'm happy to announce our new 
+[**"Medieval Buddhism"** bibliography](/tags/medieval)
+covering the religion's development outside of India.
+
+The works listed cover many critical questions, such as
+[what role Buddhism played in medieval Society](https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/buddhism-society-in-medieval-estate-system_toshio-kuroda)
+and even
+[how good scholars came to write apocryphal sūtras](https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/t309_nattier-jan).
+
+# Theravada Roots
+For those interested exclusively in [**the history of the Theravāda tradition**](/tags/theravada-roots),
+we are pleased to provide a bibliography focusing on its history in particular.
+
+It explores [the sometimes surprising politics](https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/beggars-and-buddhas-politics-humor-in-vessantara-jataka-in-thailand_bowie-katherine-a)
+around the Pali texts.
+
+# The Theravada Canon
+And for those interested in diving into the Pāli texts themselves, we've pleased to now provide three new bibliographies on
+[the rebirth stories](/tags/rebirth-stories) and [beautiful poetry](/tags/canonical-poetry)
+found in the Pāli Canon, as well as a bibliography on [Abhidhamma Studies](/tags/abhidhamma)
+and [a lecture series on the Visuddhimagga](https://buddhistuniversity.net/series/visuddhimagga-for-sutta-lovers_sujato).
+
+In particular, I'd like to highlight here a new project by our friend "ReadingFaithfully" to create [a comprehensive index of the entire Sutta Pitaka](https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/reference/cips).
+The project is not yet complete, but is already a wonderful resource for exploring the Suttas and is highly recommended!
+
+# The Intellect
+And for those looking for a more secular explanation for the workings of the thinking mind,
+[**The Intellect** bibliography](/tags/intellect)
+collects a number of works exploring how we learn
+[(or un-learn!) according to science](https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/belief-traps-tackling-inertia-of-harmful_scheffer-marten-et-al).
+
+
+# Media Literacy
+Because in [**Today's Multimedia World**](/tags/media) (another bibliography!),
+where 
+[rank misinformation](https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/climate-denial_hbomberguy) (another great video!)
+and ["attention fracking"](https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/attention-fracking_burnett-d-g) (<- a stirring conversation!)
+are increasing,
+it's more important than ever to equip ourselves with real understanding and mindfulness.
+
+# Stay Safe out there!
+To that end, I hope that the above resources are helpful for you and I hope that you have much time over the coming months to peacefully practice according to the Buddha's precious instructions.
+
+And, just in case it isn't peaceful, [here are a few first-aid tips](https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/comprehensive-first-aid_red-cross) which I sincerely hope never become useful for you!
+
+Wishing you the best this *vassa*,  
+Khemarato Bhikkhu  
+Chief Librarian at The Open Buddhist University
diff --git a/_tags/abhidhamma.md b/_tags/abhidhamma.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: "Abhidhamma"
-status: unpublished
+status: published
 parents: [theravada, pali-canon]
 illustration: https://illeakyw.sirv.com/Images/tags/buddha_preaches_in_heaven.jpg
 illustration_height: 1024

diff --git a/_tags/media.md b/_tags/media.md
@@ -14,13 +14,12 @@ illustration_caption: >-
   in his right hand, he holds a telephone receiver and his left hand reaches around the screen to turn the television's dial.
   Nine years before the invention of the internet, he coined the term "electronic superhighway"
   to describe the frenetic future he foresaw.
-use_sirv: true
 image: https://illeakyw.sirv.com/Images/banners/TV_Buddha.jpg
 image_width: 1280
 image_height: 960
-# big_image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/TV_Buddha.jpg
-# big_height: 2304
-# big_width: 3072
+big_image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/TV_Buddha.jpg
+big_height: 2304
+big_width: 3072
 footer_info: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TV_Buddha.jpg">Angus Fraser</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">CC BY 2.0</a>
 image_center_x: 75%
 image_center_y: 30%
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		> Whereas the texts discussed in the first section generally argue for a stricter separation between these two domains, those in the second [Mahāyāna wave] strove to integrate medicine into the very heart of Buddhism.

		Rather than looking at Buddhist literature through the usual lenses of authorship and translation, Salguero focuses on the language, categories, and logics internal to the Buddhist texts themselves.
		On how the relief of _medical_ suffering became central to Mahāyāna Buddhism.