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Aspects and values of buddhism for the women of the west [PDF]

, 1999
Living in India, which is not yet linked into the electronic autobahn at quite the screaming pace of the rest of the world, I received my information about this conference in two barely legible faxes, which arrived more than three weeks apart and ...
Napper, Elizabeth
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B. Baradin on Buddhism: the History of Theses for a Failed Lecture

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The study serves as an introduction to the publication of B. Baradin’s (1878-1937) theses for the lecture by A. Dorzhiev (1853-1938), which was to be read at the international Buddhist exhibition planned in Leningrad in 1927.
Sergei P. Nesterkin
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Menorah Review (No. 35, Fall, 1995) [PDF]

, 1995
Jewish Path, Buddhist Path: Do They Meet? -- Sparks of Light -- Jewish-Americans and American Sports: Memory, Identity and Assimilation -- How to Develop the Moral Personality -- Political and the Nationalist Judaism -- Litigation -- Book ...

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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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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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Early Pyrrhonism as a Sect of Buddhism? A Case Study in the Methodology of Comparative Philosophy [PDF]

, 2018
We offer a sceptical examination of a thesis recently advanced in a monograph published by Princeton University Press, entitled Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. In this dense and probing work, Christopher I. Beckwith,
JOHNSON, Monte Ransome, SHULTS, Brett
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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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Buddhism\u27s Worldly Other: Secular Subjects of Tibetan Learning [PDF]

, 2016
By analyzing the writings of select Tibetan authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this article reflects on the prestige attached to secular (but not anti-religious) knowledge, and the ambivalence prominent thinkers expressed around the ...
Townsend, Dominique
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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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