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Is mindfulness Buddhist? (and why it matters). [PDF]

, 2015
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.
Ahn J., Brown G. W., Cousins L. S., Cox C., Forman R. K. C., Gethin R., Gombrich R., Gregory P. N., Griffiths P. J., Griffiths P. J., Gyatso J., Houtman G., Hsiao B. H., Hubbard J., Jordt I., Katz S. T., Katz S. T., Katz S. T., Kirchner T., Kuan Tse-fu, LeVine S., Lopez D. S., Lopez D. S., McMahan D. L., Nyanaponika, Nyanaponika, Obeyesekere G., Poceski M., Proudfoot W., Robert H. Sharf, Sharf R. H., Sharf R. H., Taylor J. B., van Schaik S., Varela F. J., Yanagida S., Zhang Y.   +36 more
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On the Threshold of the "Land of Marvels:" Alexandra David-Neel in Sikkim and the Making of Global Buddhism

The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2016
Alexandra David-Neel had already been acquainted with the Himalayas for a long time before the visits to Tibet in 1924 that would make her a mainstream figure of modern Buddhism.
Samuel Thévoz
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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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Identification with Buddhism among young Chinese Indonesians: multicultural dynamics and generational transitions

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Amidst the diverse cultural and religious tapestry of Indonesia, Buddhism holds a prominent position as a major faith. Within the context of multiculturalism and generational shifts, this study explores the evolving identification of young Chinese ...
Jingyi Xie, Siyu Ma
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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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Exploring the interplay between Buddhism and career development : a study of highly skilled women workers in Sri Lanka [PDF]

, 2013
This article adopts a socio cultural lens to examine the role of Buddhism in highly skilled women workers’ careers in Sri Lanka. While Buddhism enabled women’s career development by giving them strength to cope with difficult situations in work, it also ...
Andersen ML, Department of Census and Statistics, Gaitskell D, Giddens A, Gifford P, Griffith RM, Gunawardana RALH, Hammersley M, Nyanatiloka, Payutto P, Perera M, Perera S, Schak DC, Silverman D, Spinks C, Sponberg A, Weber M, Weber M   +17 more
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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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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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