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A selfless response to an illusory world : a comparative study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara [PDF]

, 2011
This thesis compares the ethical theories of two 8th century Indian philosophers, Śāntideva and Śaṅkara. In order to construct their ethics from philosophical premises, a metaphysical approach has been taken.
Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi, Todd, Warren
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Patching up Dunhuang Manuscripts of the Miaofa lianhua jing: Exploring the Buddhist Philological Significance of Textual Reconstruction

Religions
The Miaofa lianhua jing 妙法蓮華經 is one of the most important scriptures of early Mahāyāna Buddhism, renowned as the “King of Sūtras”. It was extremely widely transmitted around the Tang Dynasty.
Longquan Qin
doaj   +1 more source

Song, Dance, and Instrumental Music in Buddhist Canon Law [PDF]

, 2013
Maintaining a balanced approach to music is a shared challenge in all religions. Depending on the context in which music is used in religious activities, it is either praised as a powerful medium to please the divine or condemned as a sensual allurement ...
Liu, Cuilan
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Visible Layouts, Hidden Dynamics: Reading, Reproducing, and Reframing Chinese Buddhist Glossaries

Religions
This paper investigates how the layout strategies of Xuanying’s Yiqiejing yinyi (mid-7th c.), the earliest surviving Chinese Buddhist glossary, evolved across manuscripts, Buddhist Canon editions, and Qing-era scholarly reprints from the 7th to 19th ...
Ziwei Ye
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Conflation and Misattribution in the Transmission of Zhongjing mulu: Evidence from Phonetic Glosses in the Pilu Canon

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This study investigates instances of conflation and misattribution in the transmission of three Chinese Buddhist catalogues that share the title Zhongjing mulu 眾經目錄 (Catalogue of Various Scriptures), attributed, respectively, to Fajing 法經, Yancong 彥琮 ...
Tieanwei (Xianzhao) Teow (Shi), Boonchuan Tee   +1 more
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Western Notions of Canon is Buddhism Obscuring the Nature of a Multiplex Scriptural Tradition [PDF]

, 2011
This thesis explores the extent to which Western notions of canon can be applied to the Buddhist scriptural tradition. It seeks to resolve inconsistent portrayals of Buddhist scriptural collections rendered by Buddhist scholars in the West; these ...
McLean, Rachel
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Openness as a Political Commitment

Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 585-603, Winter 2025.
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
wiley   +1 more source

Buddhist Faces of Indigenous Knowledge in Highland Asia: Rethinking the Roots of Buddhist Environmentalism

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This article is written as part of the ongoing multidisciplinary inquiry into how ecologically focused Buddhism is and whether or not the faith-based “Buddhist ecology” and the natural scientifically conceived discipline of ecology—which studies the ...
Dan Smyer Yü, Zhen Ma
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Punabbhava And Jātisaṃsāra In Early Buddhism [PDF]

, 2018
This article aims to re-examine the early Buddhist discourses of the Buddha found in the Pali Canon to understand how the Buddha sees the so-called rebirth and what was the meaning that he attempted to convey through his use of such distinctive ...
Somaratne, GA
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Buddhist culture as a safeguard for the subjective happiness of Chinese residents: mitigating anxiety regarding housing prices, unemployment, and inequality. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Tan S, Fang P, Shi W, Du S.
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