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Buddhism, Diversity and ‘Race’: Multiculturalism and Western convert Buddhist movements in East London – a qualitative study [PDF]
This study considers the development of convert Buddhism in multicultural environments. Its focus is on the encounters of people of colour (defined for the purposes of this study as people of African, Asian and Caribbean descent) with Western convert ...
Smith, Sharon Elizabeth
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Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism
, 2022 Among one of the older sub-fields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravāda Buddhism is undergoing a revival by contemporary scholars who are revising long-held conventional views of the tradition while undertaking new approaches and engaging new ...
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Gifts and Ghosts: A Derridean Reading of Theravada Communities
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2019 Because Europeans have shaped scholarly discourse about Southeast Asia and Buddhism, movement away from understanding “pure” Theravada Buddhism through religious and philosophical doctrine was a technique to decenter Western readings and shows how ...
Sokthan Yeng
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Buddhism, Wealth, and Privilege: Ambedkar and Habermas
Religions, 2023 This essay compares key essays on Buddhism by B.R. Ambedkar and Jürgen Habermas vis-à-vis the issue of Buddhism, wealth, and privilege, and the respective statements again to what the Buddha taught, from a Theravada perspective.
Pisith San +2 more
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Tensioni tra aspirazioni universali e manifestazioni particolari nel buddhismo Theravāda [PDF]
, 2022 This contribution will discuss the concepts of universal and particular in relation to the doctrinal transmission of Theravāda Buddhism. At first, the transformation of the universal doctrine known as Dhamma in a particular teaching (sāsana) will be ...
Bryan De Notariis, De Notariis, Bryan
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Situating Narrative and Systematic Accounts of Wisdom
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2021 Preview: /Review: Steven Collins, Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined (Columbia University Press, 2020), 304 pages./ Steven Collins was in the process of finalizing his manuscript and final academic work on Buddhism when he passed ...
Kevin C. Taylor
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The Second Decade of the Avadānaśataka [PDF]
, 2013 A translation of the second decade (stories 11-20) of the Indian Buddhist story collection Avadānaśataka, with short introduction and ...
Naomi Appleton, Appleton, Naomi
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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 +1 more
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Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2023 This study focuses on the tea tree consecration ceremony of the Bulang ethnic people in the Laoman’e village of Xishuangbanna (Yunnan) China. The study applied the qualitative research method in the sociological approach to religious studies.
Wenen Yan
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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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