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Youth Buddhism: The Centrality of “Youth” in Modern Buddhism

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2021
Throughout this article, I propose the term “Youth Buddhism” in order to bring out an underdeveloped field of study—of Buddhism and youth—and to emphasize the instrumental role that youth play as both an imagined problem for religions as well as the ...
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg
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Theravadization of Buddhayana under the discourse of modern Buddhism and Indonesian politics

Simulacra
Scholars have presented the Buddhayana Movement as a diverse and localized form of Indonesian Buddhism, which was facilitated by the cooperation of transnational Buddhist networks.
Jesada Buaban, Al Makin, Evi Lina Sutrisno   +2 more
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Relational Well-Being in Non-WEIRD Societies: A Reformulation of Happiness From a Chinese Cultural Perspective. [PDF]

Psych J
ABSTRACT Positive psychology has made substantial contributions to the scientific understanding of human flourishing, yet its conceptual architecture remains disproportionately grounded in WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) populations.
Xie M, Mao Y, Leong FTL.
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Soteriological Inclusiveness and Religious Tourism in Modern Thai Buddhism: The Stūpa of Mae Chi Kaew Sianglam (1901–1991)

Journal of Global Buddhism
While numerous Thai male Buddhist monastics have been deeply and widely revered for their perceived attainment of full awakening/arahant-ship, the same recognition for Thai female practitioners together with the concomitant phenomena of veneration ...
Martin Seeger, Prapas Kaewketpong, Adcharawan Seeger, Juree Saijunjiam   +3 more
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The Common Ground Between Japanese and Korean Buddhism in the Early Modern Period: Changes in the Perception of the Mechanism of the State–Buddhist Relationship

Religions
The East Asian world has shared both universal characteristics and regional particularities, forming a Buddhist cultural area for more than 1500 years. One of the main features of East Asian Buddhism is a “state–Buddhist link”. This article will focus on
Yong Tae Kim
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Buddhist Cosmopolitanism? Abbot Chao Kung and the International Interaction of Modern Chinese Buddhism

Religions
Master Chao Kung 照空 (Ignatius Trebitsch Lincoln, 1879–1943), who asserted to be the first European to undergo monastic ordination in China, possessed a multifaceted identity.
Jiade Shao
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Rethinking the Taxonomic Category “Sect/School” (Zong 宗) in the Construction of Modern Buddhism in China—Focusing on Hešeri Rushan’s Eight Schools and Two Practices (“Ba-Zong-Er-Xing 八宗二行”)

Religions
This paper explores the origin and role of the Buddhist taxonomic category “zong 宗” (“sect” or “school”) in the formation of modern Buddhism in China. It does so by examining a highly significant late-Qing Buddhist text titled Ba-zong-er-xing 八宗二行 (Eight
Jidong Chen
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Women and Ultramodern Buddhism in Australia

Religions, 2018
Buddhists started arriving in Australia in large numbers during the mid-1800s, and the first Buddhist societies and centres began to be formed in the mid-late 1900s.
Anna Halafoff, Jayne Garrod, Laura Gobey
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We have always been modern: Buddhism, science and the new genetic and reproductive technologies in Sri Lanka

Culture and Religion, 2009
This paper explores the traffic in ideas concerning new reproductive technologies in contemporary Sri Lanka. It attempts to locate the responses to the moral challenges posed by the new biotechnologies within wider political, religious and cultural ...
Bob Simpson
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Coming to Terms with “Engaged Buddhism”: Periodizing, Provincializing, and Politicizing the Concept

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022
Whatever happened to “Engaged Buddhism”? Twenty years after a flurry of publication placing this global movement firmly on the map, enthusiasm for the term itself appears to have evaporated.
Alexander O. Hsu
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