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Buddhism, Diversity and ‘Race’: Multiculturalism and Western convert Buddhist movements in East London – a qualitative study [PDF]
This study considers the development of convert Buddhism in multicultural environments. Its focus is on the encounters of people of colour (defined for the purposes of this study as people of African, Asian and Caribbean descent) with Western convert ...
Smith, Sharon Elizabeth
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Buddhism, Brain Death and Organ Transplantation [PDF]
, 2010 This article raises concerns about the degree to which potential donors are aware that their layman‖s understanding of death may not be the same as that enshrined in protocols employing the criterion of brain death.
Keown, Damien V.
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Arxiu d'Etnografia de Catalunya, 2021 Buddhism has expanded around the world as a variety of schools and branches. In Western countries, the encounter between modernity and Buddhism has resulted in a heterogenic cultural product called ‘Modern Buddhism.’ For several authors, it is a recent ...
Ismael Apud
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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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Buddhism in Central Asia I [PDF]
, 2020 Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage, 6-14th Centuries deals with the various strategies of legitimation and the establishment of sacred space and pilgrimage among both trans-regional (Chinese, Indian ...
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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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Practice and Understanding in Modern Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2023 The present paper aims to contribute to the ongoing scholarly discussion about the impact of Western concepts on the modern East Asian understanding of Buddhism.
Jakub Zamorski
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Journal of Religious Studies, 2023 Vipassana meditation, discovered by Buddha approximately 2500 years ago, is one of the oldest meditation techniques in India. This meditation technique is a non-denominational scientific technique of self-transformation through self-observation in ...
A. K. Verma
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Spiritual practices of zen buddhism in the conditions of globalization challenges of modern times
Skhid, 2022 The article studies the specifics of Zen Buddhism spiritual practices that influence the spread of their popularity in the contemporary Western globalised world.
O. Donets
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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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