Results 61 to 70 of about 103,921 (235)
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2023 Drawing on recent ethnographic research at a temple-based Buddhist charitable foundation in mainland China, this study joins recent scholarship that questions an understanding of karma as a solely individual soteriological enterprise.
Gareth Fisher
doaj +1 more source
Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
wiley +1 more source
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2023 It has been twenty years since Jonathan S. Walters sought to dislodge the ingrained understanding of karma as a purely individual phenomenon. Since then, interesting work has been done on this issue, but less than one might hope and much of it siloed ...
Justin Ritzinger
doaj +1 more source
Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Though Eriugena's affinities with several Hindu traditions are clear, this article offers to my knowledge the first detailed discussion of Eriugena's theology in relation to any Indic theological school, here, the nondualist Śaiva tradition known as the Pratyabhijñā (“Recognition”) lineage.
Matthew Z. Vale
wiley +1 more source
Understanding the moral and ethical dimensions of the Bhagavad Gita
Theologia ViatorumIn Hinduism, there is a distinction made between dharma and karma. Both are essential for the purpose of reaching moksha. Dharma (moral) is the cosmic law or moral principle that governs an individual’s conduct and Karma is the result of past, present ...
Mathias Yuvan Shunmugam +1 more
doaj +1 more source
The Foundations of Buddhist Ethics and the Western Models [PDF]
اخلاق وحیانی, 2014 Faculty member, University of Religions and Denominations (al.shojai@gmail.com) The essence of Buddhist teachings is based on the law of nature (Dharma) or ethical order, and Dharma is, then, linked with the laws governing the ethical practices (i.e ...
Alireza Shojaaii
doaj
Universal Dynamics of Phase-Field Models for Dendritic Growth
, 1998 We compare time-dependent solutions of different phase-field models for dendritic solidification in two dimensions, including a thermodynamically consistent model and several ad hoc models.
A. A. Wheeler +26 more
core +1 more source
Narasimha, Lord of Transitions, Transformations, and Theater Festivals: God and Evil in Hindu Cosmology, Myth, and Practice [PDF]
, 2016 This paper focuses on the multi-faceted nature of the divine depicted in Narasimha and the unique perspectives on God and evil offered by the myths of Narasimha, which is also subliminally represented within the religious practice and performance ...
Vemsani, Lavanya
core +2 more sources
On the Ontology of Composites in Abhidharma Buddhism
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Abhidharma Buddhism maintains that the only ultimately real (paramārtha) entities in the universe are dharmas, which are simples. What then is the ontological status of composites on this theory? One possibility is that Abhidharma Buddhists deny the reality of composites.
Monima Chadha, Shaun Nichols
wiley +1 more source
When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
wiley +1 more source