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The Coming of Secular Buddhism: a Synoptic View

open access: yes, 2012
Secular Buddhism is coalescing today in response to two main factors. First, it rejects the incoherence of Buddhist modernism, a protean formation that accommodates elements as far afield as ancestral Buddhism and psychotherapies claiming the Buddhist ...
Higgins, W
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The prospect of Buddhism through the monastic commercialization in China: between faith and wealth

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
The commercialization of Buddhism has been an important issue since it spread to the East. Through a meticulous collation of relevant content from Buddhist scriptures and historical documents, this paper systematically reviews the early development of ...
Yunlong Li, Qintong Li
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

How the Dharma Landed: Interpreting the Arrival of Buddhism in New Zealand

open access: yesJournal of Global Buddhism, 2015
In this paper, I describe how Buddhism arrived in New Zealand, and offer a preliminary discussion about its emerging contours. I propose that the 1970s was a watershed decade, effectively delineating an early period (pre-1970s) and a contemporary period (
H. Kemp
doaj  

Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V.
Maryse Jayasuriya
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not without issues, due to the genre's somewhat orientalist representation of ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
wiley   +1 more source

The Science of Chinese Buddhism Early Twentieth-Century Engagements

open access: yes, 2015
Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity.
Hammerstrom, Erik J.
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Nierozróżniający wgląd w medytacji buddyzmu chan i jego wczesnobuddyjskie analogie

open access: yesArgument, 2017
Undifferentiating insight in the Chan Buddhist meditation and its early Buddhist analogies: In the paper a comparative analysis of Chan Buddhist meditation and the early Buddhist meditation has been conducted.
Kamil NOWAK
doaj   +1 more source

Multi‐Family Therapy in East and Southeast Asia—A Systematic Review and Meta‐Synthesis

open access: yesJournal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 52, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This systematic review examined the characteristics, cultural adaptations, and effectiveness of multi‐family therapy in studies conducted in the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Eighteen reports from 17 studies were included, covering quantitative, qualitative, and mixed‐methods designs.
Ouyang Hanlai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between Buddhism and Science, Between Mind and Body

open access: yesReligions, 2014
Buddhism has been seen, at least since the Theravāda reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as particularly compatible with Western science.
Geoffrey Samuel
doaj   +1 more source

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