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Role of Language in Identity Formation: An Analysis of Influence of Sanskrit on Identity Formation [PDF]

, 2017
The contents of Brahmajnaana, the Buddhism, the Jainism, the Sabdabrahma Siddhanta and Shaddarsanas will be discussed to present the true meaning of individual’s identity and I.
Varanasi, Varanasi Ramabrahmam
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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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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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Humanistic or Modern Buddhism? Rethinking of the Modernization of Chinese Buddhism in Malaysia

Politics and Religion Journal
Humanistic Buddhism was originated in China in the 20th century. It is a form of self-innovation of traditional Chinese Buddhism in the face of new social situations. The Chinese Buddhism in Malaysia were a spreading type of Buddhism, which is the developed form for overseas spread of Chinese Buddhism.
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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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Religious conversion : historical aspects and modern perspective [PDF]

, 2008
Religious conversion has become a dangerous social and individual problem. In Latin America, a traditional Catholic area, Protestant sects are successfully con-verting more and more Catholics into their own communities.
Weber, Edmund
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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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The Singer of Tibet: Shabkar (1781-1851), the “Inescapable Nation,” and Buddhist Universalism [PDF]

, 2018
This paper examines the concept of ‘Tibet (Tib. bod)’ in the spiritual autobiography of the celebrated Tibetan Buddhist author, Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdröl (1781–1851).
Pang, Rachel H
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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”)

Religions
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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