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Exploring Processes and Dynamics of Mystical Contemplative Meditation: Some Christian-Buddhist Parallels in Relation to Transpersonal Theory [PDF]
, 2015 This paper explores Christian contemplative meditation, focusing on the prayer of Recollection as it is developed especially by Evelyn Underhill and St. Teresa of Avila. It outlines the practice and explores possible theoretical and therapeutic dynamics,
Stoeber, Michael
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BLESSED ACTS OF OBLIVION: On the Ethics of Forgetting
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 105-130, February 2025.ABSTRACT This essay explores the ethics of forgetting as a technology of the self. Forgetfulness is a feature of a range of contexts of political conflict and “difficult” heritage. Such forgetfulness is often imagined as an imposition (as when states deny the freedom to remember) or a weakness (as when people are thought to repress uncomfortable or ...
PAOLO HEYWOOD
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The sociological implications for contemporary Buddhism in the UK: socially engaged Buddhism, a case study [PDF]
, 2006 Buddhist Studies has, for well over a century, been seen by many in the academy as the domain of philologists and others whose skills are essentially in the translation and interpretation of texts derived from ancient languages like classical Chinese ...
Henry, Philip M.
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Buddhism and Animal Ethics [PDF]
, 2017 This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha's teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of ...
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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Journal of Nursing Management, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Aim: This study aims to explore the relationship between illegitimate tasks and nurses’ work engagement, as well as the mediating role of workplace mindfulness in this relationship. Design: This is a quantitative cross‐sectional study. Methods: The study was conducted from October to December 2023 across three tertiary hospitals in Central China ...
Meiyun Jia +5 more
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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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Life goes on: Archaeobotanical investigations of diet and ritual at Angkor Thom, Cambodia (fourteenth to fifteenth centuries CE) [PDF]
, 2018 This is the first time an archaeobotanical analysis based on macroremains, both charred and desiccated, from Cambodia is reported. The archaeobotanical samples are rich and provide evidence of rice processing, consumption of non-indigenous pulses, and ...
Castillo, C +4 more
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Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 17, Issue 8, Page 1586-1595, November 2024.Abstract The development of anatomy as a scientific undertaking appears to have left little room for religious and cultural input into the conduct of anatomical investigations. This has been brought to the fore by questionnaires regarding the willingness or otherwise of individuals to donate their bodies for dissection, with higher levels of ...
David Gareth Jones
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Neither ātman Nor anattā: Tapering Our Conception of Selfhood [PDF]
, 2017 I provide critical discussion of conception of and talk of psychic integration which I take to be both excessive and deficient; these viciously extreme positions are championed by the Apostle Paul and St.
BRIGGS, Roman
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The Stoicism of Śāntideva: Comparisons between Stoic and Buddhist philosophy
Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 4, Page 377-399, August 2024.Abstract Recently, due to various geopolitical events, a movement for 'decolonisation' has taken shape. In essence, this movements seeks to right the wrongs of Western colonialism. This desire has been expressed in many diverse ways depending on the context.
Lee Clarke
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