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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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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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Science and Religion in the 21st Century: Buddhist Vector [PDF]
Гуманитарный вектор, 2021 The article analyzes the relationship between Buddhism and science, presented in the works and activities of Buddhist leaders and scholars. The aim of the study is to determine the specifics of the relationship between Buddhism and science, associated ...
Tatiana V. Bernyukevich
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Umandawa: Buddhist Transformation in Modern Sri Lanka
Religions, 2023 Charismatic Buddhist monks are instrumental in modernising Buddhism as they have been entrusted with an important role of resurrecting religion and Sinhala society throughout the course of Sri Lankan history. Ven. Pitaduwe Siridhamma, later known as Siri
Gihani De Silva
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The Buddhism and Psychology Discourse: A Hermeneutic
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022 A primary conceptual framework for Buddhism in contemporary popular religious culture is as a kind of psychology. This representation dates from the nineteenth century, when apologists took advantage of the new cultural discourse of psychology to explain
Richard K. Payne
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Buddhist Modernism and the Piety of Female Sex Workers in Northern Thailand
Religions, 2022 This paper highlights Thailand’s distinctive form of Buddhist Modernism through an exploration of religious piety among female sex workers in the city of Chiangmai.
Amnuaypond Kidpromma
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Buddhism and modernity: in the margin of Donald S. Lopez Jr.’S “Buddhism and Science” [PDF]
, 2016 The present article aims at setting the issue of the relationship between Buddhism and science in a historical and philosophical frame wider than that took into account by the international scholarship so far.
LO TURCO, Bruno
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Religions, 2021 The Tibetan yoga practice known as “winds, channels, and inner heat” (rtsa rlung gtum mo) is physically challenging, and yet is intentionally designed to transform the mind.
Naomi Worth
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Is mindfulness buddhist? (and why it matters) [PDF]
, 2017 Modern exponents of mindfulness meditation promote the therapeutic effects of “bare attention”—a sort of non-judgmental, non-discursive attending to the moment-to-moment flow of consciousness.
Sharf, RH
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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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