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Re-examining Japanese science education from a Mahayana Buddhism point of view

open access: yes, 2012
Recently Japanese science education researchers have come under the influence of multi-paradigmatic research which has led some to rethink classical established theories of research practice.
Otsuji, H., Taylor, P.C.
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Anutpāda and Anumodanā-Pariṇāmanā: the substantial conditions for the formation of Mahāyāna Buddhism

open access: yes, 2001
110006481963When I formerly had tried to piece together the historical developments of Buddhist thought in India into a whole picture, I gave a twofold definition of the system contained in the Gandavyuha-sutra (GV) ; I called it "the first bifurcation ...
津田, 眞一   +3 more
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Missiological Issues in the Encounter with Emerging Buddhism

open access: yes, 2000
Buddhism in modern culture is taking on three forms that cut across the traditional distinctions among Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. Global Buddhism, Enlightenment Buddhism, and People's Buddhism present the missiologist and missionary new ...
Terry C. Muck
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Material Practice and the Metamorphosis of a Sign: Early Buddhist Stupas and the Origin of Mahayana Buddhism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
From at least the third century b.c. , Buddhist ritual focused on stupas, stylized replicas of the mounds of earth in which early Buddhists interred relics of the Buddha. Beginning in the first century b.c.
Fogelin, Lars
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Recontextualizing Nanyang Buddhism Based on the Guangzhou Guangxiao Si

open access: yesReligions
This study examined the recontextualization of Nanyang Buddhism and its practices at the Guangzhou Guangxiao Si, considering their adaptation to the requirements of contemporary urban communities in China and Southeast Asia, as well as local cultural ...
Yi Miao   +3 more
doaj   +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

Ornamental plants associated with Buddhist figures in China. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2023
Xu X   +7 more
europepmc   +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

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