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Karma and Causation in Theravāda Buddhism: Rethinking Determinism and External Phenomena

Journal of International Buddhist Studies
This paper reexamines the relationship between karma and causation in Theravāda Buddhism, with a focus on how karma causes external events attributed to agents. It argues against the deterministic notion that karma directly determines external phenomena,
Klairung Iso
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Analytical Study of the Process of Control Feeling (Vedanā) in Theravāda Buddhism

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2023
This article is entitled “An Analytical Study of the Process of Control Feeling (Vedanā) in Theravāda Buddhism”. It consists of three objectives, namely, (1) to examine the context and impacts of feelings in human being life, (2) to study the meaning and
Indanyani
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Significance of Doctrinal Purity: Burmese Monastic Regulatory System (Vinicchaya Trial)

Journal of International Buddhist Studies
Buddhism in Myanmar today may be characterized as conservative. Among many Buddhist schools across the world, only the teachings maintained by the Theravada sect are accepted as authentic teachings in Myanmar.
Yan Naing Linn
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On the Buddhist roots of contemporary non-religious mindfulness practice: Moving beyond sectarian and essentialist approaches

Temenos, 2016
Mindfulness-based practice methods are entering the Western cultural mainstream as institutionalised approaches in healthcare, education, and other public spheres. The Buddhist roots of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and comparable mindfulness-
Ville Husgafvel
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Is mindfulness Buddhist? (and why it matters). [PDF]

, 2015
Modern exponents of mindfulness meditation promote the therapeutic effects of "bare attention"--a sort of non-judgmental, non-discursive attending to the moment-to-moment flow of consciousness.
Ahn J., Brown G. W., Cousins L. S., Cox C., Forman R. K. C., Gethin R., Gombrich R., Gregory P. N., Griffiths P. J., Griffiths P. J., Gyatso J., Houtman G., Hsiao B. H., Hubbard J., Jordt I., Katz S. T., Katz S. T., Katz S. T., Kirchner T., Kuan Tse-fu, LeVine S., Lopez D. S., Lopez D. S., McMahan D. L., Nyanaponika, Nyanaponika, Obeyesekere G., Poceski M., Proudfoot W., Robert H. Sharf, Sharf R. H., Sharf R. H., Taylor J. B., van Schaik S., Varela F. J., Yanagida S., Zhang Y.   +36 more
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The Ethical Foundations of Buddhist Cognitive Models

Asian Studies, 2022
While issues related to greed and fear are ubiquitous in everyday life, they become particularly evident in crises such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, when societal responses are frequently based on either fear of the disease or craving for the ...
Tamara Ditrich
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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism [PDF]

, 2010
A critical review of the first wave of publications on Buddhism and free will between the 1960s and ...
Repetti, Rick
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[Review of:] Educating monks: minority Buddhism on China’s southwest border

, 2018
article published in Journal of Global Buddhism; Vol 19 ...
Ma, Z.
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On the Ontology of Composites in Abhidharma Buddhism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Abhidharma Buddhism maintains that the only ultimately real (paramārtha) entities in the universe are dharmas, which are simples. What then is the ontological status of composites on this theory? One possibility is that Abhidharma Buddhists deny the reality of composites.
Monima Chadha, Shaun Nichols
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