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Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.ABSTRACT Many traditions and worldviews have held that patience is a virtue—a habit that is morally praiseworthy. In this essay we orient readers to recent work on what patience is and what patience does. What are the distinctive markers of the disposition of patience? And why have people regarded it as so important to living well?
Anne Jeffrey, Timothy Pawl
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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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What Weber Got Right About Brahmins—Testing His Theories About South Asian Caste Hierarchies
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 2, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT The following article is an assessment of Max Weber's depiction of Brahmins and ascetics in South Asia. Using contemporary historical analyses, the article has attempted to demonstrate the validity of Weber's analyses in his seminal treatise on South Asian society, “The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism” that he had ...
Satanik Pal
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Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2023 Nowadays in Western countries, there is much interest in studies of Buddhist meditation practice. This article is focused on an analysis of the relationship between brainwaves in electroencephalography (EEG) and concentration practices in Theravāda ...
Nopporn Klunsupha
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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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Supreme Patriarch Suk Kai Thuean’s Method of Visualizing the Elements
Journal of Contemplative StudiesThe 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
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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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Teaching Buddhism in Britain's schools : redefining the insider role [PDF]
, 2010 Dialogical approaches to Religious Education in Britain’s schools have opened the subject to input by Buddhist insiders more than ever in its history although shortcomings remain in the way Buddhism is portrayed in the classroom.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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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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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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