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Migrant Buddhists and Korean “Multiculturalism”—A Brief Survey of the Issues Surrounding Support for South Korea’s Immigrant Buddhist Communities

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The three largest Korean religious organizations have worked to provide material, educational, medical, and social support to the various growing migrant communities.
Kyungrae Kim, Cheonghwan Park
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The Current Status and Challenges of Templestay Programs in Korean Buddhism

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Templestay is a Korean program where participants have the chance to stay in a Buddhist temple and explore the historic buildings, statues, and natural surroundings of the temple grounds, while experiencing meditation and Buddhist rituals first-hand ...
Hyungong Moon, Brian D. Somers
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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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Married Monastics and Military Life: Contradictions and Conflicted Identities within South Korea’s Buddhist Chaplaincy System

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Since its modern origins in the Buddhist Purification Movement of the 1950s, South Korea’s Jogye Order has established monastic celibacy as central to its identity and claim to legitimacy as a Buddhist sect.
Kyungrae Kim, Cheonghwan Park
doaj   +1 more source

Rahul Sankrityayan, Tsetan Phuntsog and Tibetan Textbooks for Ladakh in 1933 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In 1933 the Indian scholar and social activist Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) compiled a set of four Tibetan-language readers and a grammar for use in Ladakhi schools, together with his Ladakhi colleague Tsetan Phuntsog.
Bray, John   +3 more
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The Contents and Functions of the 49-Day Funeral Rites in Modern Korean Buddhism

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article explores the history and procedures of the 49-day Buddhist funeral ceremony, which functions as a ritual for the dead and a healing tool for the bereaved.
Hyungong Moon, Brian D. Somers
doaj   +1 more source

Rade, Development, and the Broken Promise of Interdependence: A Buddhist Reflection on the Possibility of Post-market Economics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Bhutan's stated intention of keeping the value of happiness central to the development process is a suitable counter to the values and karma that prevail in most development strategies and ideals.
Hershock, Peter D.
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“Let’s Propagate the Dharma”: A Critical Survey of the Activities of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism’s Seventh Dharma Propagation Bureau

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The Jogye Order has been facing a deepening crisis since the turn of the millennium. The rapid decline in membership had been compounded by a growing loss of confidence in the order’s monastic leadership following a succession of scandals in the 1990s ...
Cheonghwan Park, Kyungrae Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Buddhist Approach to Happiness by Loving-kindness (mettā) For Medical Personnel in New-Normal Age

open access: yesJournal of International Buddhist Studies, 2021
This article aims to explore a Buddhist approach to happiness by loving-kindness (mettā) for medical personnel in new-normal age. There are a number of obstacles associated with medical personnel, especially with respect to obtaining their approval for ...
Saowapa Sudprasert   +2 more
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What makes you not a Buddhist? : a preliminary mapping of values [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study sets out to establish which Buddhist values contrasted with or were shared by adolescents from a non-Buddhist population. A survey of attitude toward a variety of Buddhist values was fielded in a sample of 352 non-Buddhist schoolchildren aged ...
Adamson J.   +64 more
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