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The two modern concepts, “Engaged Buddhism” and renjian fojiao 人間佛教, with the variety of its English translations (such as “Humanistic Buddhism”), were developed and discussed with and without reference to each other over several decades.
Carsten Krause
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Feral Territories: The Suburbanization of Nature in Eastern Bangkok
ABSTRACT Between the 1960s and 1980s, American and international financial and technical assistance spurred men with means to bring together concrete, asphalt, timber, and steel to construct unplanned, poorly serviced (because they were unplanned), and expensive subdivisions at the outskirts of what was then central Bangkok.
Samson Lim
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While numerous Thai male Buddhist monastics have been deeply and widely revered for their perceived attainment of full awakening/arahant-ship, the same recognition for Thai female practitioners together with the concomitant phenomena of veneration ...
Martin Seeger +3 more
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Religious policy and state control in Tibet : Scottish Parliament cross-party group on Tibet, briefing paper 3 [PDF]
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Mills, Martin, Scrimgeour, Ronald
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Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello +5 more
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Buddhist Transformation in the Digital Age: AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Humanistic Buddhism
Humanistic Buddhism is one of the mainstreams of modern Buddhism, with special emphasis on the humanistic dimension. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Humanistic Buddhism is also at an important stage of modernization and ...
Yutong Zheng
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The role of religion in the longer-range future, April 6, 7, and 8, 2006 [PDF]
This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication series that began publishing in 2006 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. This conference that took place
Aldrich, Sophie Lei +31 more
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
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Evolutionarily Optimal Risk Aversion
ABSTRACT In an experimental choice situation, we identify risk‐acceptability thresholds and show how such thresholds are updated in response to benchmark information, a recurrent feature of health, safety, and environmental (HS&E) risk governance. We present a theoretical framework linking the observed behavior to an underlying evolutionary parameter ...
Chmura, Nguyen, Biermann
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Enduring myths: smrang, rabs and ritual in the Dunhuang texts on Padmasambhava [PDF]
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines Number 15, November ...
Cathy Cantwell, Mayer, Rob
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