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Repetitive Religious Chanting Invokes Positive Emotional Schema to Counterbalance Fear: A Multi-Modal Functional and Structural MRI Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020
IntroductionDuring hard times, religious chanting/praying is widely practiced to cope with negative or stressful emotions. While the underlying neural mechanism has not been investigated to a sufficient extent.
Junling Gao   +6 more
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The Funerary Rites of Won Buddhism in Korea

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Won Buddhism, established in 1916 by Founding Master Sot’aesan (少太山, 1891–1943), is one of the most active new religious movements in South Korea. When Korean society experienced a revolution in terms of values together with a swift transformation at the
Kwangsoo Park
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The Number and Regional Distribution of Chinese Monks after the Mid-Qing Dynasty

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The total number of ordination certificates issued between 1736 and 1739 was 340,112. Analyzing the amount and regional distribution of ordination certificates during the early Qianlong period is helpful for us in clarifying the amount and regional ...
Xuesong Zhang
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Buddhism and modernity: in the margin of Donald S. Lopez Jr.’S “Buddhism and Science” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The present article aims at setting the issue of the relationship between Buddhism and science in a historical and philosophical frame wider than that took into account by the international scholarship so far.
LO TURCO, Bruno
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Meditation Matters: Replies to the Anti-McMindfulness Bandwagon! [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A critical reply to the anti-mindfulness critics in the collection, who oppose the popular secularized adoption of mindfulness on various grounds (it is not Buddhism, it is Buddhism, it is a tool of neo-capitalist exploitation, etc.), I argue that ...
Repetti, Rick   +1 more
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Fostering and sustaining teacher resilience through integration of Eastern and Western mindfulness

open access: yesCogent Education, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, school closures have brought significant disruptions to education throughout the world. This pandemic has affected the mental state of teachers from having to adapt to provide online classes. Teacher resilience refers to the
Phrakhru Kowitarttawatee   +1 more
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eThe Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Book review of The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Gavin Flood.
Hillgardner, Holly
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New Kadampa Buddhists and Jungian psychological type [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Building on previous studies on Canadian Anglicans and Catholics, this study examines and discusses the psychological type profile of 31 adherents to New Kadampa Buddhism. Like Anglicans and Catholics, Buddhists preferred introversion (I). Like Anglicans
Batchelor S   +23 more
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Measuring attitude towards Buddhism and Sikhism : internal consistency reliability for two new instruments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper describes and discusses the development and empirical properties of two new 24-item scales – one measuring attitude toward Buddhism and the other measuring attitude toward Sikhism.
Adamson J   +17 more
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Buddhism and Animal Ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha's teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of ...
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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