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Identifying Effective Informal Mindfulness Practices in Daily Activities

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2018
Mindfulness is a state of consciousness that entails regulating attention to focus on the moment-to-moment experience with an open orientation. The ability to evoke and sustain this state can be cultivated by both formal and informal meditation practices.
Ke Zhang
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Mindfulness in Action: Buddhist Environmental Activism of Earth Holder Berlin

Religions
This study explores the intersection of mindfulness practice and environmental activism within the Earth Holder Berlin (EHB) group, a part of the Order of Interbeing (O of I) inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Hanyi Zhang, Ruotong Shi
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Wang Chuan’s Abstract Painting: A Contemporary Expression of Chinese Zen Ink Painting

Contemporary Social Sciences, 2021
“Zen ink painting” is the art school formed under the confluence of the sectarian “Zen” and the Chinese traditional art form “ink painting” after Buddhism was introduced to China. It emphasizes the belief that Buddhism practitioners could reveal their
Yue Zhaomin and Shi Chenggang
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Buddhism in Australia: An Emerging Field of Study

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015
In 2006, Paul D. Numrich (2008) posed the question of whether contemporary scholarship on North American Buddhism constituted a distinct "field of study" and identified several factors that defined both academic disciplines and fields. This paper applies
Anna Halafoff, Ruth Fitzpatrick, Kim Lam
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Potency by Name? ‘Medicine Buddha Plant’ and Other Herbs in the Japanese \u3ci\u3eScroll of Equine Medicine\u3c/i\u3e (\u3ci\u3eBa’i sōshi emaki\u3c/i\u3e, 1267) [PDF]

, 2019
Buddhist ritual healing and medical therapies included care for domestic animals, such as the horse. In pre-modern Japan, equine medicine (ba’i 馬医) was not restricted to the treatment of military horses; it was also practiced in a religious context.
Triplett, Katja
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Freedom From Responsibility: Agent-Neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal [PDF]

, 2016
This paper argues that influential Mahāyāna ethicists, such as Śāntideva, who allow for moral rules to be proscribed under the expediency of a compassionate aim, seriously compromise the very notion of moral responsibility.
Coseru, Christian
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Reconfiguring Western Zen: Eco-Engagement in Japanese (American) Zen Buddhism—Case Studies of Zen Peacemakers Germany and Akazienzendo Berlin

Religions
This article examines how two contemporary Zen Buddhist communities in Germany—Zen Peacemakers Germany and Akazienzendo Berlin—engage in ecological activism through the lens of eco-Buddhism.
Hanyi Zhang, Ruotong Shi
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Buddhism, Beauty, and Virtue [PDF]

, 2017
The chapter challenges hyperbolic claims about the centrality of appreciation of beauty to Buddhism. Within the texts, attitudes are more mixed, except for a form of 'inner beauty' - the beauty found in the expression of virtues or wisdom in forms of ...
Cooper, David
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The Mahāvastu and the Vinayapiṭaka of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins [PDF]

, 2012
International ...
Tournier, Vincent
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The Relative Identity of All Objects: Tiantai Buddhism Meets Analytic Metaphysics

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
According to Zhiyi 智顗 (538–597), the founder of the Chinese Buddhist Tiantai school 天台宗, “one object is all objects;” hence, all objects are profoundly interconnected. In this paper, I critically examine Zhiyi’s metaphysics of objects as presented in the 
Li Kang
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