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The Publication and Dissemination of the Yuan Dynasty Pilu Canon

open access: yesReligions
This study explores the publication and dissemination of the Pilu Canon 《毗盧藏》, engraved by followers of Bao’en Wanshou Hall in Houshan Village, Fujian, during the Yanyou reign of the Yuan Dynasty.
Tun Zhao
doaj   +1 more source

Buddhist and Daoist Canon Metadata

open access: yes, 2018
Detailed bibliographic information describing the Buddhist and Daoist Canons, used for contents in Docusky database. Buddhist Canon metadata produced by Dharma Drum Institute and CBETA.
Stanley-Baker, Michael   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Situating the Concept of Mindfulness in the Theravāda Tradition

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2016
Mindfulness plays a prominent role in traditional and modern Buddhist meditation practice. This paper examines the theoretical background of the concept of mindfulness (sati) as presented in the early Buddhist sources, recorded in Theravāda Buddhism.
Tamara DITRICH
doaj   +1 more source

The Making of a Masterpiece: An Examination of Zimen Jingxun’s Authorship

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The Chinese Buddhist anthology Zimen jingxun (Admonitions to the Black-robed Monastics 緇門警訓), a compilation believed to have originated during the Song dynasty, constitutes a Chinese Buddhist anthology containing teachings from Buddhist masters and ...
Changzhong (Shin) Lee
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The Private Collections of the Printed Chinese Buddhist Canons in Yunnan: From the 10th–17th Centuries

open access: yesReligions
The Song 宋, Yuan 元, and Ming 明 dynasties (960–1644) witnessed the flourishing development of the Chinese Buddhist Canon (CBC), with about fifteen editions of the CBC constructed in this period.
Heng Yin
doaj   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

A Critical Edition and an Annotated Japanese Translation of the Life of the Nun Jingxiu of the Grove of Meditation Monastery in the Southern Qi Dynasty Compiled by Shen Yue by the Collaborative Research Project "Buddhist Sutras and Doctrines for Chinese Laity"

open access: yes, 2020
This is a critical edition and an annotated Japanese translation of the Life of the Nun Jingxiu of the Grove of Meditation Monastery (Chanlin si ni Jingxiu xingzhuang 禪林寺尼淨秀行狀) Compiled by Shen Yue 沈訳 (441-513 CE) included in the fascicle 23 of the ...
『中國在家の敎理と經典』硏究班
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Seers and Ascetics: Analyzing the Vedic Theory of Cognition and Contemplative Practice in the Development of Early Buddhist Meditation and Imaginary

open access: yesReligions
This paper represents an attempt to investigate some aspects of Vedic religiosity, as represented in the R̥gveda (R̥V), in comparison with the Pāli Canon on the themes of cognition, contemplative practice, and the theory of knowledge.
Federico Divino
doaj   +1 more source

Demystifying Decoloniality: Epistemic Rupture and Material Reality

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonial thought has become increasingly influential across the social sciences, foregrounding coloniality, epistemic injustice, ontological difference and pluriversality as alternatives to Western universalism. This Introduction to the Forum Debate ‘Debating Decolonial Thought’ critically examines the ‘decolonial turn’ in development ...
Sreerekha Sathi
wiley   +1 more source

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