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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

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
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The role of religion in the longer-range future, April 6, 7, and 8, 2006 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication series that began publishing in 2006 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. This conference that took place
Aldrich, Sophie Lei   +31 more
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The Virtue of Patience

open access: yesPhilosophy 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
wiley   +1 more source

Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Social ministry in Buddhism: analysis of relevant concepts [PDF]

open access: yesРелигия, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Pursuit of Perfection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Both Hinduism and Buddhism contain a specific characteristic that sets them apart from each other, but at the same time ties them together.
Perry, Jacob
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Do religious and cultural considerations militate against body donation? An overview and a Christian perspective

open access: yesAnatomical 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
wiley   +1 more source

From mandala to flowchart: Managerial governmentality and the evidentiary technologies of Indonesia's Reformasi

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 290-319, August 2024.
Abstract With the dissolution of an authoritarian regime, novel semiotic technologies are mobilized in the service of producing new political imaginaries. Through what visual and discursive practices can “democracy” be made visible? How can “good governance” be convincingly attested?
Aurora Donzelli
wiley   +1 more source

The Self: Kierkegaard and Buddhism in Dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Is it possible for there to be a fruitful dialogue between Søren Kierkegaard and Buddhists regarding the understanding of the self? In this paper, I explore the possibilities for such a dialogue by first discussing the rejection of substantialism shared ...
WISDO, David
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