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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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Encountering Science: The Transformation of the Buddhist Knowledge System in Modern China

Religions
In modern China, the introduction of Science from the West posed a significant challenge to Chinese Buddhism, which was already in a state of decline.
Wenli Fan
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An Islamic Perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring Key Challenges From the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Projects are typically viewed as mechanisms for delivering products and services; however, this study examines projects from the distinct perspective of grand challenges (GCs). The selected case is the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project in Lahore, Pakistan—a grand challenge project (GCP).
Rehab Iftikhar, Syed Nayyer Abbas Kazmi
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