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Meditation and Mass Civil Disruption: How “Engaged” Can an “Engaged Buddhist” Be?

Journal of Global Buddhism
As a subgroup of the environmental movement “Extinction Rebellion,” “Extinction Rebellion Buddhists” are a unique religious community in the United Kingdom.
Zoe Zielke
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Easternization of the East? Zen and Spirituality as Distinct Cultural Narratives in Japan

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015
Zen Buddhism has for decades fascinated the West, and the former elitist tradition has in contemporary times become part of broad popular culture. Zen is for Buddhists, but it is also part of a general “Easternization” and alleged “spiritual revolution ...
Jørn Borup
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Water Politics and Religious Practices in Kangding [PDF]

, 2017
This case study examines the use of water in Kangding, China. Kangding is a location in the Kham Himalaya which for centuries served as a strategic border area between Tibetan and Chinese worlds.
Yang, Nyimatashi Gongwei
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Enchantment with ‘the East’: an individual response to the problem of being Western under conditions of reflexive modernization [PDF]

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Haydn Aarons, Tim Phillips
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Review Of Theravada Buddhism: The View Of The Elders By A. Tilakaratne [PDF]

, 2014
Brown, S., Swearer, Donald K.
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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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Introduction: The New "Defenders": Youthful Articulations of Buddhism in a Contemporary Age

, 2021
Kim Lam
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The Spatiality of Buddhism in Shenzhen: Exploration Through Guattari’s Three Ecologies

Journal of Global Buddhism
This article explores the spatiality of Buddhism in the metropolis Shenzhen through its revitalization process in the past decades alongside the rapid expansion of the city.
Kai Shmushko
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Recent Trends Concerning the Issue of ‘Buddhism and Practice’ in Contemporary Japan

, 2023
Yasushi Kigoshi
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The sociological implications for contemporary Buddhism in the UK: socially engaged Buddhism, a case study [PDF]

, 2006
Buddhist Studies has, for well over a century, been seen by many in the academy as the domain of philologists and others whose skills are essentially in the translation and interpretation of texts derived from ancient languages like classical Chinese ...
Henry, Philip M.
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