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Ideological inequalities: Khmer culture and widows' perception of remarriage [PDF]
, 2018 To explain the enduring persistence of gender inequality, structural explanations alone are not sufficient. One must look at the realm of cultural ideas to understand the entrenched nature of female subordination.
Lee, Susan
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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. +36 more
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Jhāna-cittas: Swapping Planes via Samatha [PDF]
, 2017 Conference Theme: Mindfulness: Traditions and Compassionate ApplicationsConsidering the importance of the Abhidhammic analysis of mind (citta) and mental factors (cetasika) for understanding of the full scope of Samatha, this paper aims to introduce its ...
Somaratne, GA
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, 2013 Większość uniwersalnych religii posiada swoją świętą księgę: judaizm Torę, chrześcijaństwo Biblię, islam - Koran. Buddyzm tymczasem nie posiada nawet pojęcia "świętej księgi". Nie ma jednego tekstu wspólnego dla wszystkich wyznawców. Choć Kanon palijski
Grela, Joanna
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What was mahāyana Buddhism? [PDF]
Aprincipios de nuestra era se inicia en el budismo indio un nuevo género literario dentro de la propia comunidad monástica. Esta nueva literatura, que se reivindica como buddhavacana («palabra de Buda»), se produce en minorías desperdigadas a lo largo de
Arnau, Juan
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Consciousness as Presence: An Exploration of the Illusion of Self [PDF]
, 2013 Buddhism teaches that ‘self’ as a substantial, enduring entity is an illusion. But for self to be an illusion there must be something in our experience that is misinterpreted as self. What is this?
Fink, Charles Kedric
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"God Is Infinite, and the Paths to God Are Infinite": A Reconstruction and Defense of Sri Ramakrishna's Vijñana-Based Model of Religious Pluralism [PDF]
, 2017 This article argues that contemporary philosophers have unduly ignored Sri Ramakrishna’s pioneering views on religious pluralism. The Bengali mystic Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) taught the harmony of all religions on the basis of his own spiritual ...
Maharaj, Ayon
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The roles and impacts of worldviews in the context of meditation-related challenges. [PDF]
Transcult Psychiatry, 2023 Lindahl JR +3 more
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Confessions of a Deluded Westerner [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, I aim to make two general points. First, I claim that the discussions in Repetti (2017) assume different, sometimes conflicting, notions of free will, so the guiding question of the book is not as clear as it could be.
Brent, Michael
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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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