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The Influence of Buddhism on the Traditional Rituals of the Buryats of the Eastern Sayan Region
Концепт: философия, религия, культураThe article, based on field materials, examines the transformation of the worldview of the Buryats of the Eastern Sayan region under the influence of Buddhism.
D. M. Mansheev, G. P. Dondukova
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Containing Histories Past and Present: Making Samples in the “Huntington Collection” (1893–1921)
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893–1921) includes the skeletal remains of immigrants, migrants, and lifelong New York City residents. The collection's formation was coeval with the formalization of physical anthropology, and the collection was made to serve research aims centered on race and origin.
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith
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Korean Buddhism in the Era of ‘Spiritual, but Not Religious’: Adapting to Contemporary Society
ReligionsThe shift toward modernity has come with many changes that affect religion. This article investigates some of those changes with the aim of showing how Korean Buddhism is adjusting to contemporary spirituality.
Brian D. Somers
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Buddhism and Animal Ethics [PDF]
, 2017 This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha's teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of ...
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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A Confucian Perspective on Public Health Ethics
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Debates in public health ethics have been dominated by the assumptions of Western liberalism: a priority given to liberty and autonomy over other values, an individualistic view of social ontology, a focus on personal responsibility, a minimal set of obligations (only created through consent), and a marginalization of social, cultural, and ...
Kathryn Muyskens, Angus Dawson
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Religions, 2020 Following the introduction of Buddhism to China, various strategies of accommodation with Chinese culture were developed, all amounting to some form of syncretism with Chinese religions, mainly Confucianism. Buddhism in pre-modern Korea displayed similar
Sem Vermeersch
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East-meets-West: How the Dhammapada Influenced the New Thought Movement [PDF]
, 2018 New Thought teachings are based on a variety of pre-existing traditions as well as on information new to the human consciousness. While the exact source of specific New Thought concepts is unclear, evidence suggests that the movement benefited from ...
Anama-Green, Chris
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Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches
Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks
Nancy S. Jecker +2 more
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Buddhist Activism and Chinese Modernity
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015 The history of modern Chinese Buddhism has begun to attract attention in recent years. Some scholars have done inspiring research as they unravel the integration of Buddhism into the highly secularized process of Chinese modernity by drawing on the ...
Hung-yok Ip
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On Buddhism, Divination and the Worldly Arts: Textual Evidence from the Theravāda Tradition [PDF]
, 2014 This essay attends to the sticky web of indigenous terminology concerning divination and other so-called “mundane” or “worldly” arts, focusing primarily upon Buddhist canonical texts preserved in Pāli, augmented by references to commentarial and ...
Fiordalis, David
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