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A Comparative Perspective of “Engaged Buddhism” and “Renjian Fojiao” (“Humanistic Buddhism”) in Chinese Speaking Discourse: Exclusivism, Inclusivism, or Pragmatism?

Religions
The two modern concepts, “Engaged Buddhism” and renjian fojiao 人間佛教, with the variety of its English translations (such as “Humanistic Buddhism”), were developed and discussed with and without reference to each other over several decades.
Carsten Krause
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Journey of Self‐Decolonization

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Volume 2025, Issue 184, Page 53-54, Winter 2025.
ABSTRACT In this chapter, the author shares their journey through and beyond their Disrupting interview experience, and reflections on their role in both academia and the world that came into focus through the process.
Eun‐Young Lee
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Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
In Myanmar, Buddhist nuns are recognized as part of the sangha (Buddhist monastic community) and are commonly referred to as thila-shin, meaning a disciplined and virtuous female practitioner.
Hiroko Kawanami
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Principled Pragmatism in Water Resources Research: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective on Studies in South Asia and Beyond

Water Resources Research, Volume 61, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract Principled pragmatism is a broad and expanding approach to water policy research, especially in the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. These studies advocate policies that are both pragmatic, in the ordinary language sense of the term, and principled.
James L. Wescoat Jr., Basit Koshul, Abubakr Muhammad   +2 more
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Buddhism and Western Psychology

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Psychology emerged as an independent field of naturalistic inquiry during an era of dawning Western scholarly and popular interest in Buddhism. Over the past century-and-a-half psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts have analysed, pathologized,
Seth Zuihō Segall
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The Common Ground Between Japanese and Korean Buddhism in the Early Modern Period: Changes in the Perception of the Mechanism of the State–Buddhist Relationship

Religions
The East Asian world has shared both universal characteristics and regional particularities, forming a Buddhist cultural area for more than 1500 years. One of the main features of East Asian Buddhism is a “state–Buddhist link”. This article will focus on
Yong Tae Kim
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The Role of Buddhism in Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development in Vietnam Today

, 2019
Assoc Pham, Cong Nhat
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Implications of religious salience and religious practices on the senses of belonging to the larger Aotearoa/New Zealand society and the Muslim community

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 959-978, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The article contests the general assumption that religious commitment among young Muslim immigrants hinders their social integration in Western societies. It examines how religious salience and religious practice affect belonging within the broader Aotearoa/New Zealand society and their Muslim community.
Hussain Raissi, Mariska Kappmeier
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Dōgen (1200–1253)

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Dōgen can without any doubt be considered one of the most important Japanese thinkers of all times. An aristocrat by birth, he entered the head monastery of the Tendai school favoured by the nobility at an early age, left it when he did not find ...
Rein Raud
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Buddhism in Chinese History. Arthur F. Wright [PDF]

, 1960
Joseph M. Kitagawa
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