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The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty [PDF]

, 2013
The Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker Śāntideva tells his audience to give out alcohol, weapons and sex for reasons of Buddhist compassion, though he repeatedly warns of the dangers of all these three.
Lele, Amod
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The Stoicism of Śāntideva: Comparisons between Stoic and Buddhist philosophy

Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 4, Page 377-399, August 2024.
Abstract Recently, due to various geopolitical events, a movement for 'decolonisation' has taken shape. In essence, this movements seeks to right the wrongs of Western colonialism. This desire has been expressed in many diverse ways depending on the context.
Lee Clarke
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Mahayana Philosophy: Problems and Research

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The introduction to the topic of this issue is an overview of the research articles authored by Russian, Lithuanian, and Indian scholars on various problems of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy.
Victoria G. Lysenko
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White shirts as sacred amulets: “World‐making” and “self‐making” during the Burmese political festival

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 186-205, June 2024.
Abstract Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world‐making.” The article focuses on one ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
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Buddhism: an atheistic and anti-caste religion? : Modern ideology and historical reality of the ancient Indian Bauddha Dharma [PDF]

, 2001
The historian has to safeguard the strangeness of the past. Therefore, religio-historical research has to scrutinise the reconstruction of the real history of religions by religious ideologies of the present.
Weber, Edmund
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Crossing and Questioning Boundaries: Five Influential Books in Mahayana/East Asian Buddhism

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 333-336, June 2025.
Matthew Mitchell
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Silent suasions: interpersonal mediation in Thai meditation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue S1, Page 61-76, April 2024.
Abstract Discourse is the typical modus operandi for persuasive practices, but silence also has an important role to play in many religious contexts. In this essay, I examine how silence works as a mechanism of persuasion in Thailand, where Buddhist logics of meditation permeate social life.
Julia Cassaniti
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Potency by Name? ‘Medicine Buddha Plant’ and Other Herbs in the Japanese \u3ci\u3eScroll of Equine Medicine\u3c/i\u3e (\u3ci\u3eBa’i sōshi emaki\u3c/i\u3e, 1267) [PDF]

, 2019
Buddhist ritual healing and medical therapies included care for domestic animals, such as the horse. In pre-modern Japan, equine medicine (ba’i 馬医) was not restricted to the treatment of military horses; it was also practiced in a religious context.
Triplett, Katja
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The art of jieyuan: ethical affinity and the cultivation of Chinese Buddhist spirituality in Tanzania

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue S1, Page 96-114, April 2024.
Abstract Ethical encounters in cross‐cultural contexts have been a major concern in the anthropology of morality and religion, yet the dominant view assumes that processes of ethical transformation and conversion emphasize the centrality of texts and beliefs.
Yu Qiu
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Художественные особенности корейских зеркал с изображениями бодхисаттв периода Корё (918–1392)

Искусство Евразии
Статья посвящена исследованию корейских бронзовых зеркал периода Корё (918–1392), украшенных изображениями бодхисаттв и других персонажей буддийского пантеона.
Симонова, А.В.
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