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Buddhism in Australia: A Maturing, Multidisciplinary Field of Inquiry

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT In 2012, Anna Halafoff, Ruth Fitzpatrick and Kim Lam applied Paul Numrich's framework to the study of Buddhism in so‐called Australia, to determine if it constituted a distinct field of study. They concluded that it was an emerging field, according to Numrich's three categories of specialisation, organisation and publication.
Anna Halafoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Korean Buddhism in the Park Chung Hee Era (1961–1979)

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Park Chung Hee (Pak Chŏng hŭi 1917–1979) is the most controversial president in South Korean history. The relationship between religious groups and Park's regime is a particularly complicated historical issue. Scholars have rightly criticized Korean Buddhism's relationship with the Park Chung Hee regime, particularly condemning the Chogye ...
Jonathan C. Feuer
wiley   +1 more source

Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.
Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
wiley   +1 more source

Crossing Philosophical Boundaries in Comparative Theology: John Keenan, Joseph O'Leary and Raimon Panikkar

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 706-719, October 2025.
Abstract One of the ways in which the process of learning may occur in comparative theology is through reinterpreting the data of one religion through the philosophical framework of another. This type of learning mainly takes the form of Christian theologians reinterpreting the contents of Christian faith through Asian philosophical frameworks.
Catherine Cornille
wiley   +1 more source

Soil health and community well‐being: A framework of intangible outcomes of sustainable agriculture

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Quality, Volume 54, Issue 5, Page 1214-1229, September/October 2025.
Abstract Social outcomes of agricultural practice adoption are often excluded from adoption studies, particularly outcomes related to community well‐being. In large part, this is because assessing the social well‐being outcomes of sustainable agricultural practices lacks a widely accepted framework.
Claire Friedrichsen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The changing Buddhist landscape: Anxiety and the development of Pure Land Buddhism in medieval China

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 280-291, August 2025.
Abstract The introduction of Pure Land practice and belief into medieval China changed the Buddhist landscape. Pure Land Buddhism offered a new pathway and new methods for achieving enlightenment. However, these changes were also a significant source of anxiety among the early community of Pure Land practitioners.
Kendall R. Marchman
wiley   +1 more source

A Study on the Sinification of Buddhism: The Acceptance of the *Tattvasiddhiśāstra 成實論 and the Demise of the Chengshi School 成實學派

open access: yesReligions
The *Tattvasiddhiśāstra played an essential role in the history of Buddhism during the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420–589). Hitherto, the academic world has not systematically studied this treatise’s influence on the Sinification of Buddhism ...
Peng Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.
Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
wiley   +1 more source

A Fragment of Old Uyghur Uṣṇīṣavijayā-nāma-dhāraṇī from the Berlin Turfan Collection

open access: yesErdem, 2018
Old Uyghur translations of Buddhist canonical texts have playeda predominant role in the emergence of written sources of CentralAsian Turkish Buddhism.
Uğur Uzunkaya
doaj   +1 more source

From Emptiness to Interconnectedness: Identity and Dependence in Chinese Buddhism

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2025.
ABSTRACT “Everything is interconnected” is a central theme of Chinese Buddhism. This article examines how four prominent Chinese Buddhist schools—Tiantai 天台, Sanlun 三論, Huayan 華嚴, and Chan 禪—engaged with interconnectedness during the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581–907 CE), the golden age of Chinese Buddhism.
Li Kang
wiley   +1 more source

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