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Như Thanh (1911–1999)

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
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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Introduction: Measuring Religiosity and Multi‐Religiosity in East and West

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 467-471, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The introduction to the spotlight set of research notes that are based on the Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality briefly explains why we believe it is necessary to develop new measures of religiosity, the process of developing the questionnaire, and the key findings in this set of research notes, including the common phenomenon of
Fenggang Yang
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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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Kūkai

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
In addition to being the founder of the influential Shingon school of Japanese Buddhism, Kūkai (774–835) was one of Japan’s greatest calligraphers, a masterful scholar of pre-Tang dynasty classical Chinese literature, a ritual innovator, and an ...
David L. Gardiner
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Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1875–1939)

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Beatrice Lane Suzuki was the American born wife of renowned Zen scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Until very recently, nothing beyond this had been written about her.
Judith Snodgrass
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“Original Buddhism” or “Early Buddhism”?

JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES (INDOGAKU BUKKYOGAKU KENKYU), 2001
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Kolonnawē Kusuma/Kusuma Devendra (1929–2021)

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Bhikkhunī Kolonnawē Kusuma was a leading Buddhist teacher and nun from Sri Lanka who, through her scholarly work, global presentations, and activism, paved the way for the acceptance of the higher ordination of Theravāda Buddhist nuns.
Nirmala S. Salgado
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The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Buddhism

, 2017
Buddhism is a diverse field of study that combines religion, philosophy, history, political science, sociology, art history, philology and textual studies, and informs a variety of comparative studies.
Autori Vari, Tarocco, Francesca
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Japanese Buddhism and World Buddhism

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1960
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Understanding Buddhism: A Guide for Teachers

This book is not available on ChesterRepBuddhism is often the religion that teachers have the least confidence in teaching despite being the sixth largest religion in the UK and being commonly regarded as one of the six major religions to be taught in ...
Holt, James D.
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