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

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

The 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
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Freedom From Responsibility: Agent-Neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal [PDF]

, 2016
This paper argues that influential Mahāyāna ethicists, such as Śāntideva, who allow for moral rules to be proscribed under the expediency of a compassionate aim, seriously compromise the very notion of moral responsibility.
Coseru, Christian
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From Emptiness to Interconnectedness: Identity and Dependence in Chinese Buddhism

Philosophy 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
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Moral Realism and Anti-Realism outside the West: A Meta-Ethical Turn in Buddhist Ethics [PDF]

, 2013
In recent years, discussions of Buddhist ethics have increasingly drawn upon the concepts and tools of modern ethical theory, not only to compare Buddhist perspectives with Western moral theories, but also to assess the meta-ethical implications of ...
Davis, Gordon Fraser
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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

Religions
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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The Virtue of Patience

Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Many traditions and worldviews have held that patience is a virtue—a habit that is morally praiseworthy. In this essay we orient readers to recent work on what patience is and what patience does. What are the distinctive markers of the disposition of patience? And why have people regarded it as so important to living well?
Anne Jeffrey, Timothy Pawl
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Social ministry in Buddhism: analysis of relevant concepts [PDF]

Религия, церковь, общество, 2019
This article tries to answer the question, whether the concept of «social ministry» is applicable in the case of Buddhism. The article analyzes some examples of the consideration of «gift/giving» and «social ministry» in the Buddhist canonical and post ...
Pavel Dmitrievich Lenkov
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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.
This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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Do religious and cultural considerations militate against body donation? An overview and a Christian perspective

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 17, Issue 8, Page 1586-1595, November 2024.
Abstract The development of anatomy as a scientific undertaking appears to have left little room for religious and cultural input into the conduct of anatomical investigations. This has been brought to the fore by questionnaires regarding the willingness or otherwise of individuals to donate their bodies for dissection, with higher levels of ...
David Gareth Jones
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