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Building a Culture of Care in Laboratory Animal Science through practicing “remembrance”: A reflection on local practices in Sri Lanka

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 9, Page 1725-1728, September 2025.
This flowchart shows how remembrance activities create space for emotional reflection, helping individuals respect and acknowledge their feelings about working with lab animals, and enhance team commitment to improve lab animal welfare. This emotional awareness can reduce compassion fatigue fueled by cultural and religious beliefs and promote human ...
A. D. D. S. Amarasekara   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Buddhist meditation and \(\it Pūjā\) performances of Theravāda centres in Germany

open access: yes, 2020
Diese Studie untersucht die buddhistische Meditation und rituelle Aufführung zweier buddhistischer Gruppen in Deutschland: die des Buddhahauses und seine dazu gehörigen Gruppen und diejenigen srilankischer Migranten.
Thammannawe, Dhammananda (M. A.)
core   +1 more source

The Notions of Absence, Emptiness and Nothingness from the Theravāda Buddhist Perspective

open access: yesAsian Studies
This article discusses three important concepts of ancient Indian discourse, namely absence, nothingness and emptiness, and examines their representations in Theravāda Buddhism.
Tamara Ditrich
doaj   +1 more source

AKUNTABILITAS BERBASIS METTĀ DAN KAMMA [PDF]

open access: yesJurnal Akuntansi Multiparadigma, 2019
: Accountability Based on Mettā and Kamma. This study aims to explore the meaning of Mettā and Kamma's accountability from the perspective of Buddhism.
Suardi Tanasal   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-290, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
wiley   +1 more source

Permutations and Oblong Numbers in the Theravāda-vinaya: A New Intersection of Buddhism and Indian Mathematics

open access: yesReligions
Within the context of Indian religions, Jainism has long been recognized for its extensive use of permutations and combinations. However, the application of these principles within Buddhist scriptures has received relatively little scholarly attention ...
Wei Li, Yingjin Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Child Ordination in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay presents scholarship on the lifestyles of Buddhist young people who ordain before reaching the age of 18 or 20—ages that in many nations today signify adulthood. It covers questions about the forms of education provided young nuns and monks, the care and emotional support such children receive.
Liz Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

Supreme Patriarch Suk Kai Thuean’s Method of Visualizing the Elements

open access: yesJournal of Contemplative Studies
The paper aims to shed further light on the boran kammaṭṭhāna, or “old meditation,” tradition by providing a summary and an analysis of a meditation manual titled “Baep Doen That” (literally, “Model for walking the elements”) attributed to the Supreme ...
Potprecha Cholvijarn
doaj   +1 more source

The Problem of the Inefficacy of Knowledge in Early Buddhist Soteriology [PDF]

open access: yesKritike: 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
doaj  

The Rise of Popular Asceticism in Sinhalese Buddhist Culture: Some Significant Concepts and Practices

open access: yesIAFOR 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
doaj   +1 more source

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