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But Is Ageing Really All Bad? Conceptualising Positive Ageing. [PDF]
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Buddhism in Contemporary Bhutan
2016Buddhism has been a consistent feature of Bhutanese politics and culture since the country’s founding by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel in the seventeenth century. A mixture of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism combined with indigenous customs and worldviews, Bhutanese Buddhism remains a fundamental aspect of contemporary Bhutanese identity.
Samdrup Rigyal, M. Alyson Prude
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Contemporary Mongolian Buddhism
2016This chapter consists of two main sections. The first section is concerned with a brief and broad overview of the emergence and development of Buddhism during different periods, namely, those of the Mongol Empire, the colonial Qing rule in Mongolia, and the establishment of the Autonomous Mongolian State.
Vesna A. Wallace, Christine Murphy
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The Contemporary Study of Buddhism
2016This chapter discusses the history of Buddhist studies as a modern academic discipline. Rather than giving a broad bibliographic survey of the field, it explores the way in which power has structured its genesis and development as a system for the production of knowledge.
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2016
Contemporary Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar is diverse and manifold, and the variety of “modern” forms of Buddhism have evolved since the colonial period in dynamic interplay with modernization, colonization, nation-building, and shifting socioeconomic circumstances.
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Contemporary Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar is diverse and manifold, and the variety of “modern” forms of Buddhism have evolved since the colonial period in dynamic interplay with modernization, colonization, nation-building, and shifting socioeconomic circumstances.
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Contemporary Buddhism and Magic
2016This chapter provides an overview of the general substantive, formal, and social characteristics of that diverse assemblage of practices, objects, and actors identified as magical within contemporary Buddhist religious cultures. After critically reflecting on the concept of “magic,” the chapter first rethinks and re-describes the substantive character,
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2020
Is Buddhism a religion, and if so in what sense? This question has perplexed Westerners ever since their first encounters with Buddhism in the eighteenth century. Early missionaries, merchants, and government officials living in Asia wrote home in confusion.
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Is Buddhism a religion, and if so in what sense? This question has perplexed Westerners ever since their first encounters with Buddhism in the eighteenth century. Early missionaries, merchants, and government officials living in Asia wrote home in confusion.
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