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The Communist Pure Land: The Legacy of Buddhist Reforms in the Early Chinese Revolutionary Period [PDF]

, 2014
Prominent Buddhist Ju Zan, disciple of the venerable Taixu, saw an opportunity for Buddhism to thrive under the auspices of the Communist\u27s period of New Democracy. However, as is usual in the retelling of history, many sides of a story are told.
Tymick, Kenneth J
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The Common Orientation of Community Psychology and Wonhyo’s Thought: ‘One Mind’, ‘Harmonizing Disputes’ and ‘Non-hindrance’ in Focus

Religions
This study aims to relate the emerging field of community psychology with the philosophical thoughts of Wonhyo, a prominent figure in Korean Buddhism, from the aspect of their common orientation, to explore the development of both Buddhist philosophy and
Taesoo Kim, Dugsam Kim
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Communities of Practice and the Buddhist Education Reforms of Early-Twentieth-Century China

Approaching Religion
Over the course of only a few decades during the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, part of mainstream Buddhist education underwent a striking shift in China.
Peter Boros
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Non-Duality of Principle and Phenomena and Integration of Doctrinal Teaching and Chan Practice: Formal Continuity of Chinese Buddhist Ontology and Linguistic Conception in Chinese Buddhist Animation in Fujian and Taiwan

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Due to the contemporary trend of "Humanistic Buddhism" in China, the spread of the Buddhist culture has exhibited peculiar propensities of modernization and secularization.
Shuchao Chen, Wenyao Yu, Mengyi Chen
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Modernist expert to postmodernist innovative cultural hermaneutist : a journey in adult education : a thesis submitted to Massey University (Wellington) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (Adult Education) [PDF]

, 2004
The repercussions of the turbulent years of the greater part of the twentieth century have been responsible for the demise of both the Enlightenment project and the modern period which was its bearer.
Palapathwala, Ruwan Bandara
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The normalisation of body gifting in Taiwan [PDF]

, 2015
The Tzu Chi Foundation has made body gifting, such as body donation, bone marrow donation and cord blood donation, successful in Taiwan. Using Foucault’s theoretical framework of governmentality and normalisation, this article discusses how a Buddhist ...
Chang, Hung-Chieh
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The Coming of Secular Buddhism: a Synoptic View

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015
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 ...
Winton Higgins
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On Love and Awareness [PDF]

, 1994
In this paper, I will discuss some aspects of a humanistic perspective on love which includes both idealistic as well as realistic elements of love.
Wautischer, Helmut
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The Changing Face of Economics? Ethical Issues in Contemporary Economic Schools as a Consequence of Changes in the Concept of Human Nature [PDF]

, 2015
The last financial crisis combined with some recent social trends (like growing inequality or environmental problems) inspired many contemporary economists to the re-evaluation of actual economic knowledge in the search for solutions to these problems.
Horodecka, Anna
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Perfectly Imperfect: A Concept Analysis of “Wabi-Sabi” in Nursing

Nurse Educators and Practitioners Journal
Introduction: This study explores “Wabi-Sabi,” a Japanese philosophical and aesthetic concept rooted in Zen Buddhism, which values beauty in imperfection, transience, and simplicity.
Esmeraldo C. De Las Armas IV
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