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Love me for the Sake of the World: “Goddess Songs” in Tantric Buddhist Maṇḍala Rituals

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The presence of Apabhraṃśa in tantric Buddhist texts has long been noted by scholars, overwhelmingly explained away as an example of “Twilight language” (saṃdhā-bhāṣā). However, when one looks closer at the vast number of Apabhraṃśa verses in
Jackson Stephenson
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Buddhist Ethics in Treatises of Post-Canonical Abhidharma

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022
The aim of the article is to define the tendencies of elaboration of ethical problems in early medieval exegetical texts - treatises of post-canonical Abhidharma. Ethics as a specific philosophical discipline concerning morals was not specifically developed because of cosmological character of Buddhist philosophy.
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Religious Governance and Canon Compilation: The Inclusion of the Fozu Tongji in the Ming Buddhist Canon

open access: yesReligions
The Fozu tongji 佛祖統紀 (Comprehensive Records of the Buddha and Patriarchs), compiled by the Tiantai monk Zhipan 志磐 during the Song dynasty, is a seminal work in the history of historiography.
Haochen Lian
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Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A critical review of the first wave of publications on Buddhism and free will between the 1960s and ...
Repetti, Rick
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Visible Layouts, Hidden Dynamics: Reading, Reproducing, and Reframing Chinese Buddhist Glossaries

open access: yesReligions
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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PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY: CROSS-CULTURAL AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper I propose a future direction for comparative philosophy on which it enters the space of public philosophy by capitalizing on the fact that it is already cross-cultural, and adding multi-disciplinary research to its proper foundation.
VAIDYA, ANAND JAYPRAKASH
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Lists as dynamic devices in early Buddhist doctrine and textual tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article discusses the origin of the Abhidharma genre of Buddhist literature in the Indian context of an oral religious tradition, and shows how the textual format of the Abhidharma texts, in their turn, shaped the development of Buddhist ...
Dessein, Bart
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Conflation and Misattribution in the Transmission of Zhongjing mulu: Evidence from Phonetic Glosses in the Pilu Canon

open access: yesReligions
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)   +1 more
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Buddhist Faces of Indigenous Knowledge in Highland Asia: Rethinking the Roots of Buddhist Environmentalism

open access: yesReligions
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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