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Universal buddhism, individual buddhism: analysis of the increasing western interest in eastern spirituality

Escritos, 2017
The article analyses the increasing interest in Buddhism among Western Culture. Based on different historical and sociological researches, a critical review of this phenomenon is undertaken in the light of theories concerning Modernity.
Jean Paul Sarrazin
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Personal and relational experiences on meditation journeys following developmental trauma: An IPA study of adults who experienced an inconsistent evolved developmental niche

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 201-218, March 2026.
Abstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Anna‐Maria Frastali, Adhip Rawal
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Religion and Official Politics in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT With increasing discussions on political deification and the official references to traditional religions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), recent debates on the PRC's alleged infiltration over Taiwan elections through the goddess Mazu, and the post‐Handover government's emphasis on filiality to China in Hong Kong, it is high time to ...
Ting Guo
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Local Agency in Global Movements: Negotiating Forms of Buddhist Cosmopolitanism in the Young Men’s Buddhist Associations of Darjeeling and Kalimpong

The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2016
The Young Men’s Buddhist Association (YMBA), founded in Ceylon in 1898, was one of many Buddhist socio-cultural organisations established between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that imagined Buddhism as a global religion, compatible ...
Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia
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Japan's Modernization and Buddhism

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 1965
The question as to the role of traditional Japanese culture, as it developed during ancient and feudal times, in modern society, or as to its historical significance, is a question of extreme importance and, at the same time, a question which is not easily answered. Also the question of the relationship between Japan's modernization and Buddhism is, in
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Contemporary Buddha’s teaching as a Path to Liberation [PDF]

In Medias Res, 2018
Buddhism is essentially a teaching about liberation – from suffering, ignorance and rebirth. Knowledge of ‘the way things really are’ is considered to be vital in bringing about this emancipation.
Ružica Čičak-Chand
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confessionally-caused features of motivation in the buddhists Karma Kagyu School

Вестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Психолого-педагогические науки, 2018
The article focuses on the features of the Russian Buddhists’ motivation in the framework of the Karma Kagyu traditions, determined by the method of Stojković I. and Mirić J.
Miroslav I. Yasin
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Rethinking the Taxonomic Category “Sect/School” (Zong 宗) in the Construction of Modern Buddhism in China—Focusing on Hešeri Rushan’s Eight Schools and Two Practices (“Ba-Zong-Er-Xing 八宗二行”)

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This paper explores the origin and role of the Buddhist taxonomic category “zong 宗” (“sect” or “school”) in the formation of modern Buddhism in China. It does so by examining a highly significant late-Qing Buddhist text titled Ba-zong-er-xing 八宗二行 (Eight
Jidong Chen
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Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1875–1939)

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Beatrice Lane Suzuki was the American born wife of renowned Zen scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Until very recently, nothing beyond this had been written about her.
Judith Snodgrass
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Buddhist Perspective on Depression and Ways to Deal with Depression

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2019
Purpose is this article is to present a Buddhist perspective on depression and ways to deal with depression according to Buddhism. First a perspective of depression according to modern psychological findings has been studied and presented to get an ...
Beliatte Metteyya
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