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The Mongolian manuscript of the «Bhadracarya» (The King of Aspiration Prayers, The Aspiration for Noble Excellent Conduct) from a Tuvan archive

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2018
The article introduces and examines an anomynous Mongolian translation of a well-known Buddhist prayer text «The King of Aspiration Prayers, The Aspiration for Noble Excellent Conduct» (Bhadracarya), preserved at the research archives of the Tuvan ...
Saglara V. Mirzaeva
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The synthesis of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism in the ideas of liberation in Vietnamese Mahāyāna Buddhism of the 18th century (a case study of Ngo Thi Nham)

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis
This paper examines the synthesis of Confucianism, Mahāyāna Buddhism and Daoism in the conception of liberation within 18th century Vietnamese religious and philosophical thought, focusing on the case of Ngo Thi Nham (1746-1803).
Le Thi Hong Phuong, Mai K Da
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From Marginalization to Localization: Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism’s Adaptive Strategies in Theravāda Myanmar

open access: yesReligions
Tension between the Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhist schools has persisted since early Buddhist times and remains a complex issue. However, recent decades have seen growing joint religious activities and cultural exchanges between followers of these ...
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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Buddhism : A Concise Introduction

open access: yes, 2009
Smith and Novak cover the essential teachings, practices, and historical development of Buddhism in all its rich variety. Beginning with the life and legend of the Buddha, Buddhism explores core Buddhist doctrines such as the Four Noble Truths, the ...
Novak, Philip, Smith, Huston
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The Problem of the Inefficacy of Knowledge in Early Buddhist Soteriology [PDF]

open access: yesKritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2008
Early Buddhism has been described as a “gnostic soteriology” in that itsees the chief cause of life’s unsatisfactoriness to be ignorance of certain metaphysical truths, and that once this ignorance is eliminated through awareness of the true nature of ...
Ryan Showler
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The Continuity of Madhyamaka and Yogacara in Indian Mahayana Buddhism. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
In the history of Buddhist scholarship it has been the convention to treat the Madhyamaka and Yogacarin strands of the Mahayana as separate and fundamentally opposed schools of thought.
Harris, Ian Charles
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The emancipation from suffering in Mahayana Buddhism and its implications for contemporary mental health

open access: yes, 2021
Human beings constantly seek meaning and temporary happiness for themselves. Nevertheless, they live in a perpetual cycle of universal and subjective suffering, affecting their general and mental wellness.
Lim, Beng Keong
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Mahayana Philosophy: Problems and Research

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy
The introduction to the topic of this issue is an overview of the research articles authored by Russian, Lithuanian, and Indian scholars on various problems of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy.
Victoria G. Lysenko
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