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Religions, 2022 The mid-twentieth century was celebrated in Theravāda civilizations as the halfway point in the five-thousand-year history of the Buddha’s dispensation, the sāsana.
Tony Scott
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 1300-1326, May 2025.ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the influence of religion on pro‐environmental behavior, little attention has been paid to the role of religious epics—that is, narratives that embody the core beliefs and moral values of religious traditions—as a mechanism for promoting such behavior.
Manish Das +4 more
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IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016 The briefest explanation that could be provided for asceticism in the original Theravada Buddhist tradition is that it is a physically and mentally lived enterprise for fulfilling enlightenment (nibbana). As such, the enterprise demands serious practical
Isha Gamlath
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Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 2025.ABSTRACT Numerous studies have shown that mindfulness is positively associated with relationship and sexual satisfaction. However, most have examined the benefits of intrapersonal or trait mindfulness, rather than directly investigating interpersonal mindfulness or considering polyvagal theory.
Claudia Dias Martins +2 more
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Freedom From Responsibility: Agent-Neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal [PDF]
, 2016 This paper argues that influential Mahāyāna ethicists, such as Śāntideva, who allow for moral rules to be proscribed under the expediency of a compassionate aim, seriously compromise the very notion of moral responsibility.
Coseru, Christian
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‘Paying Attention’ in a Digital Economy: Reflections on the Role of Analysis and Judgement Within Contemporary Discourses of Mindfulness and Comparisons with Classical Buddhist Accounts of Sati [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter examines the question of the role of intellectual analysis and ethical judgement in ancient Indian Buddhist accounts of sati and contemporary discourses about ‘mindfulness’. Attention is paid to the role of paññ?
A Bhikkhu +21 more
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The house is coming from inside the call
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 208-219, March 2025.Abstract You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Anthropology is a promiscuous discipline, but there are only about half a dozen ways to begin an anthropology essay.
Lachlan Summers
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The Problem of the Inefficacy of Knowledge in Early Buddhist Soteriology [PDF]
Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2008 Early Buddhism has been described as a “gnostic soteriology” in that itsees the chief cause of life’s unsatisfactoriness to be ignorance of certain metaphysical truths, and that once this ignorance is eliminated through awareness of the true nature of ...
Ryan Showler
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Other religious perspectives : Buddhist [PDF]
, 2016 This short section of Chapter 6 of the book "Religion and Nationhood: Insider and outsider perspectives on Religious Education in England" gives a brief summary of demographics and diversity of the Buddhist community in the UK, the history of and ...
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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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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