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Human Perfection from the Perspective of Ibn Arabi's Mysticism and Theravada Buddhism Mysticism [PDF]

International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life, 2023
SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: This research explored the concept of human perfection through the lenses of Ibn Arabi’s Mysticism and Theravada Buddhism Mysticism.
Ali Jafari, Mohammad Emil
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Influence of Mahayana-Vajrayana School on the Sacred Characteristics of Theravada Vihara in Indonesia

Khazanah Theologia, 2022
After Buddha parinibbana, difference of views between his disciples in interpreting Dhamma result in the creation of three main Buddhist schools: Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana.
Rahadhian Prajudi Herwindo, Singgih Salim   +1 more
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When Mahāyāna Meets Theravāda: The Position of Chinese Bhikṣuṇīs in Contemporary Myanmar

Religions, 2022
Mahāyāna and Theravāda are the two major traditions of Buddhism in contemporary Asia. Although they share many similar teachings, there are long-standing disputes between their respective sets of adherents, touching on doctrine, ritual, religious ...
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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Theological debate among Buddhist sects in Indonesia

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
Indonesian Buddhism has many sects such as Theravada, Mahayana, Buddhayana, Tantrayana, Maitreya, Tridharma, Kasogatan, Nichiren and so on. These sects historically come from the same source, the Buddha’s teachings, but now they have differences in terms
Abdul Syukur
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Konsep Kematian dalam Perspektif Agama Buddha Theravada

Al-Adyan, 2021
This article examines the concept of death in the Theravada Buddhist perspective. Where the teachings show the stages in addressing or even the state after death.
Ali Mursyid Azisi
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Gifts and Ghosts: A Derridean Reading of Theravada Communities

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2019
Because Europeans have shaped scholarly discourse about Southeast Asia and Buddhism, movement away from understanding “pure” Theravada Buddhism through religious and philosophical doctrine was a technique to decenter Western readings and shows how ...
Sokthan Yeng
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Beyond the Mainland: An Introduction

Religions, 2022
Mention “Southeast Asian Buddhism” and what comes to mind is often Theravāda Buddhism, the dominant religion in the mainland Southeast Asian states of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand [...]
Jack Meng-Tat Chia
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“Art world” of yunnan theravada buddhist murals from the perspective of art sociology: A case study based on murals in Jingzhen buddhist temple [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences
From the perspective of art sociology, this article adopts the research paradigm of “art world” and “cultural production” to carry out a case study on murals in Jingzhen Buddhist Temple in Xishuangbanna and explore the “production” and “autoproduction ...
Zhang Qiuying
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A Monastery for Laypeople: Birken Forest Monastery and the Monasticization of Convert Theravada in Cascadia

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022
Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished by the absence of monasticism, its dominant institution. Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed to gain a foothold in the convert West, thanks to the efforts of convert ...
Karen Ferguson
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Purity and impurity in nondualistic Śaiva Tantrism [PDF]

, 2015
Indian civilisation has been strongly characterised by the work of containment erected by the Brahmanical elite over the almost two thousand years of its grandiose attempt at culturally and so- cially dominating the Indian world as a whole.
Torella, Raffaele
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