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Buddhism in Australia: A Maturing, Multidisciplinary Field of Inquiry
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
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Rethinking Korean Buddhism in the Park Chung Hee Era (1961–1979)
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
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
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
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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
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Soil health and community well‐being: A framework of intangible outcomes of sustainable agriculture
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
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The changing Buddhist landscape: Anxiety and the development of Pure Land Buddhism in medieval China
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
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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
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
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
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A Fragment of Old Uyghur Uṣṇīṣavijayā-nāma-dhāraṇī from the Berlin Turfan Collection
Old Uyghur translations of Buddhist canonical texts have playeda predominant role in the emergence of written sources of CentralAsian Turkish Buddhism.
Uğur Uzunkaya
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From Emptiness to Interconnectedness: Identity and Dependence in Chinese Buddhism
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
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