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Situating the Concept of Mindfulness in the Theravāda Tradition
Asian Studies, 2016 Mindfulness plays a prominent role in traditional and modern Buddhist meditation practice. This paper examines the theoretical background of the concept of mindfulness (sati) as presented in the early Buddhist sources, recorded in Theravāda Buddhism.
Tamara DITRICH
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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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Toiling with the Pāli Canon [PDF]
, 2015 The paper describes the preparation of a Buddhist corpus in the Middle Indo-Aryan language Pāli, which is available only in a flat TEI format, for content-based analysis. This task includes transforming the file into a hierarchical TEI P5 representation,
David Alfter +5 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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