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Cultivating a 'Habitus of Multiplicity' in Cross-Cultural Medicine: From Case Study Conflict to Many-Sided Conditions of Care Through Process and Jain Metaphysics. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
ABSTRACT Prompted by a nursing case study that occurred in 2022, this paper joins the perspectives of a nurse practitioner and cross‐cultural medical ethics professor to consider who can ask a question in the healthcare system, what questions can be heard, and how to develop pluralistic care models—beyond relativism and imperialism—that solicit more ...
Donaldson B.
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A Survey of the Japanese Influence on Buddhist Education in Taiwan during the Japanese Colonial Period (1895–1945)

Religions, 2020
This paper analyses the Japanese influence upon Taiwanese Buddhist communities during the Colonial Period. I will discuss the interplay between monasticism, education, and politics by examining the process of institutionalisation of monastics and ...
Pei-ying Lin
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Progress and Free Will: On the Buddhist Concept of “Time” and Its Possibilities for Modernity

Asian Studies, 2016
An even only cursory glance at the way Buddhism is experienced, interpreted, and lived in the contemporary world––both Western and Oriental––reveals Buddhism’s multiple “modern faces”.
Bart DESSEIN
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When Buddhism Meets Bollywood

HIMALAYA, 2020
In September 2016, hundreds of thousands of devotees gathered in Ladakh to celebrate the millennial anniversary of Naropa (1016- 1100 CE), an Indian Buddhist scholar-saint who is widely revered in the Himalayas.
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg
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Non-Buddhist Buddhism and non-Christian Christianity in Japan

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1969
The New Religions in Japan, is in disguise a real renascence of Buddhism. That, for one thing, it forces Buddhism into accommodating and streamlining for the new age at a much more rapid pace than would otherwise have been possible, and that, for another,
Harry Thomsen
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Buddhist Realism for Modern Times

Ars & Humanitas, 2022
In the early 1930s, when the project of scientific modernization was in full swing in Chinese Buddhist circles, Dharma Master Taixu wrote a series of essays on “Realism” (Xianshi zhuyi 現實主義, 1928–1931).
Jan Vrhovski
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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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Shi Cihang 航慈釋. The First Case of Mummified Buddhist in Taiwan

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2006
Shi Cihang 航慈釋 (1895-1954), is one of the eminent figures in the so-called Modern Buddhism in Taiwan. Engaged in improving education and training of Buddhist monks and nuns, and promoter of the so-called renjian fojiao 教佛間人 (Buddhism for the Human Realm),
Stefania Travagnin
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From “Sangha Forest” (叢林 Conglin) to “Buddhist Academy”: The Influence of Western Knowledge Paradigm on the Chinese Sangha Education in Modern Times

Religions, 2023
Drawing on Foucault’s theoretical framework of “space and power”, this paper examines the discursive construction of “knowledge” in the context of Chinese Buddhist education.
Yifeng Liu
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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