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His excellency and the monk: a correspondence between Nyanaponika Thera and David Ben-Gurion [PDF]

, 2009
Between the years 1956 and 1962 the scholar-monk Nyanaponika Thera and the first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion have exchanged eight long letters.
Federman, Asaf, Asaf Federman
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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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Practices of self-knowledge in Buddhism and modern philosophical education

Socium i vlast, 2020
Introduction. The article is focused on studying the self-knowledge techniques used in Buddhism and their application in teaching philosophy. The relevance of the study is due to the search for new approaches to studying philosophy, including approaches ...
N. Dyadyk
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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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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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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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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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