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Exploring the interplay between Buddhism and career development : a study of highly skilled women workers in Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2013 This article adopts a socio cultural lens to examine the role of Buddhism in highly skilled women workers’ careers in Sri Lanka. While Buddhism enabled women’s career development by giving them strength to cope with difficult situations in work, it also ...
Cohen, Laurie +3 more
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Buddhism in the Far North of Australia pre-WWII: (In)visibility, Post-colonialism and Materiality [PDF]
, 2022 Buddhism was first established in Australia through flows of migrants in the mid-nineteenth century, and is currently Australia’s fourth-largest religion.
Rocha, Cristina (R11182) +9 more
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Recontextualizing Nanyang Buddhism Based on the Guangzhou Guangxiao Si
ReligionsThis study examined the recontextualization of Nanyang Buddhism and its practices at the Guangzhou Guangxiao Si, considering their adaptation to the requirements of contemporary urban communities in China and Southeast Asia, as well as local cultural ...
Yi Miao +3 more
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Frontiers in SociologyThis study examines how lay women engage with, adapt, and transmit the heart-mind esoteric Buddhist tradition known as Foxin Jing (佛心经) in contemporary China.
Tianyan Yin, Yaoping Liu, Daohua Xu
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Sacred space in motion: geography, time, and texts in the historiography of Lingyan Temple
Frontiers in SociologyThis study examines the historiography of Lingyan Temple, a prominent Buddhist temple in Jinan, through an empirical and positivist lens. The study delineates the temple’s historical evolution from the Eastern Jin dynasty to the present, employing a ...
Bin Han, Yaoping Liu
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Journal of Global Buddhism, 2000 Langzeitarchivierung durch: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern - zhb:lory_unilu_10_5281_zenodo_1310717 - 2025-07 ...
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Frontiers in SociologyExisting research on legitimation has largely centered on historical and political narratives, overlooking the complex mechanisms through which contemporary practitioners construct, negotiate, and assert religious authority and authenticity.
Daohua Xu, Yaoping Liu
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Providing students with a way to honor human body donors during or after an anatomy course has been shown to help provide a sense of closure and comfort to students and, when present, donor families. Gestures of gratitude for donors can also emphasize humanistic values of respect, empathy, and professionalism.
Bobbie J. Leeper +14 more
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Frontiers in SociologyIntroductionTheravāda Buddhism plays a central role in the cultural and religious life of several ethnic communities in Southwest China, yet the ways minority communities mobilize Buddhism to construct collective identity remain insufficiently explored ...
Wenen Yan, Yaoping Liu
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Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick +6 more
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