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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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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
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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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Evolutionarily Optimal Risk Aversion

Risk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT In an experimental choice situation, we identify risk‐acceptability thresholds and show how such thresholds are updated in response to benchmark information, a recurrent feature of health, safety, and environmental (HS&E) risk governance. We present a theoretical framework linking the observed behavior to an underlying evolutionary parameter ...
Chmura, Nguyen, Biermann
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Dōgen (1200–1253)

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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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Thought Path model of Bodhisatta in Theravada Buddhism

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2018
This article is dissertation part entitled “A Thought Path Model of Bodhisatta in Theravada Buddhism” has objectives to study the relationship of mind and mental products, thinking process and to build Thought Path model of Bodhisatta.
Suphakorn Chanachaidham, Phrarajapariyattimuni, Phramaha Sooksan Sukhawatthano, Banjob Bannaruji   +3 more
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Vajrayāna Ritual

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Ritual, however conceptualized, plays a central role in Vajrayāna Buddhist practice. Dedicated practitioners – yogis and yoginis – are introduced to Vajrayāna practices through initiation rituals which purify them and empower them to cultivate the ...
Nick Swann
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Gender and Buddhist Doctrine

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Women have been part of Buddhism since its inception in India, both as nuns and laity. As the tradition progressed, both within India and beyond, texts and traditions emerged that are or can be perceived as negative towards women.
Alice Collett
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Như Thanh (1911–1999)

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Bhikṣuṇī Như Thanh (1911–1999) was an ordained Vietnamese Buddhist nun, leader, and teacher who significantly influenced Vietnamese Buddhism and the development of the Southern Vietnamese Buddhist Nuns’ Sangha.
Ninh Thị Sinh
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Ananda Metteyya/Allan Bennett (1872–1923)

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Allan Bennett was one of the first British people to be ordained as a Buddhist monk (bhikkhu) in Asia, taking the name Ananda Metteyya. He was a liminal figure who stretched across different nineteenth and early twentieth-century contexts.
Elizabeth Harris
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