Buddhism, Diversity and ‘Race’: Multiculturalism and Western convert Buddhist movements in East London – a qualitative study [PDF]
This study considers the development of convert Buddhism in multicultural environments. Its focus is on the encounters of people of colour (defined for the purposes of this study as people of African, Asian and Caribbean descent) with Western convert ...
Smith, Sharon Elizabeth
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Relational Well-Being in Non-WEIRD Societies: A Reformulation of Happiness From a Chinese Cultural Perspective. [PDF]
Psych JABSTRACT Positive psychology has made substantial contributions to the scientific understanding of human flourishing, yet its conceptual architecture remains disproportionately grounded in WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) populations.
Xie M, Mao Y, Leong FTL.
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The dilemma of mind in contemporary Buddhism : some British testimony [PDF]
, 2006 Progress in neuroscience over the last half-century casts doubt on the religious intuition that the mind is a non-material entity. Without some dialogue between religion and science in order to resolve differences of fact and value, the dilemma of the ...
Kennedy, Andrew William
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Exploring the interplay between Buddhism and career development : a study of highly skilled women workers in Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2013 This article adopts a socio cultural lens to examine the role of Buddhism in highly skilled women workers’ careers in Sri Lanka. While Buddhism enabled women’s career development by giving them strength to cope with difficult situations in work, it also ...
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Teaching Buddhism in Britain's schools : redefining the insider role [PDF]
, 2010 Dialogical approaches to Religious Education in Britain’s schools have opened the subject to input by Buddhist insiders more than ever in its history although shortcomings remain in the way Buddhism is portrayed in the classroom.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas +1 more
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The Problem of the Inefficacy of Knowledge in Early Buddhist Soteriology [PDF]
Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2008 Early Buddhism has been described as a “gnostic soteriology” in that itsees the chief cause of life’s unsatisfactoriness to be ignorance of certain metaphysical truths, and that once this ignorance is eliminated through awareness of the true nature of ...
Ryan Showler
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INFLUENCE OF BUDDHISM ON THE EXPANSION OF WRITING IN THE MID SIXTH CENTURY YAMATO
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2018 The article features the influence of Buddhism, which appeared in Japan in the first half of the VI century, on the expansion of writing and written culture in Yamato.
D. A. Surowen
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Embodied Transcendence: The Buddha’s Body in the Pāli Nikāyas
Religions, 2021 This article reassesses the role of the body in advanced meditation as it is presented in the early Buddhist Pāli discourses, showing that certain theorizations of liberation held that it contained a marked corporeal element.
Eviatar Shulman
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Buddhist Spirituality and Disadvantaged Social Strata in the Films of Pema Tseden
Religions, 2023 Thoughts on the relationship between Buddhism and Tibetans permeate Pema Tseden’s films. His early films focused on whether the Buddhist spirit, such as feelings, dedication, and self-sacrifice, was recognized in modern Tibet.
Xiaotong Wang
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, 2020 Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to ...
Gornall, Alastair
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