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Visualizing Compassion: Episodic Simulation as Contemplative Practice. [PDF]

open access: yesMindfulness (N Y), 2023
Wilson-Mendenhall CD   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rethinking the Climate Crisis Here and Now: Mahāyāna Buddhism, Engi Relationality, and the Familiar Pitfalls in Japanese and Taiwanese pro-Nuclear Energy Narratives

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations
Climate inaction occurs partly because the ‘problem’ is often perceived as spatially and temporally distant. Contemporary Japanese and Taiwanese pro-nuclear energy narratives stress the necessity of nuclear energy for solving carbon emissions and energy ...
NAOFUMI YAMADA   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The sociological implications for contemporary Buddhism in the UK: socially engaged Buddhism, a case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Buddhist Studies has, for well over a century, been seen by many in the academy as the domain of philologists and others whose skills are essentially in the translation and interpretation of texts derived from ancient languages like classical Chinese ...
Henry, Philip M.
core   +1 more source

Avataṃsaka Meditation in Khotan: Samādhi, Visualization, and the Cult of Buddha Images

open access: yesReligions
This article examines Khotan’s role in the transmission and reception of Avataṃsaka/Huayan Buddhism, arguing that the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra’s exceptional prestige and royal protection in Khotan provided favourable conditions for the circulation—and ...
Imre Hamar
doaj   +1 more source

Architecture, Devotion, and Power: The Kalasan Temple and Buddhist Legitimation under the Śailendra Dynasty

open access: yesJurnal Kawistara
This study analyzes Kalasan Temple as a religious and political entity that articulated and  mobilized Mahayana Buddhist ideology to bolster dynastic legitimacy during the Śailendra dynasty  in eighth-century Java.
Tomy Wijaya   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Śākya Chokden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
During his long writing and teaching career, Śākya Chokden (1428-1507) developed a novel, and in many respects unusual approach to the key systems of Buddhist thought and practice.
Komarovski, Yaroslav
core   +1 more source

Chan in Communist China: Justifying Buddhism\u27s Turn to Practical Labor Under the Chinese Communist Party [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A prominent Buddhist reformer, Ju Zan, and twenty-one other progressive monks sent a letter to Mao Zedong appealing to the congenial nature between the two parties at the dawn of the Communist takeover in China.
Tymick, Kenneth J
core   +1 more source

Towards a Tradition of Home Prayers in Kalmyk Buddhism: the Specificity of Texts

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article is devoted to the study of the tradition of home prayers of Kalmyk Buddhist laymen. On the basis of the data on the traditions of Theravada and Mahayana, the author comes to the conclusion that the laity’s tradition of prayer on special days ...
G. Korneev
doaj  

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