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What Is a Good Death in South Asia? A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Nurs Scholarsh
ABSTRACT Introduction To deliver palliative care, it is important to understand what a “good death” means to the relevant people. Such studies have mostly occurred in high‐income settings that usually live by Western ideals. What matters to people is likely to vary across different regions of the world, influenced by multiple factors. Although there is
Wijeyaratne L   +5 more
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Situating Narrative and Systematic Accounts of Wisdom

open access: yesEidos. 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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Tea Tree Consecration Ceremony of Bulang Tradition under the Theravāda Buddhism in Laoman’e Village: An Empirical Study

open access: yesJournal 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]

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
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Analytical Study of the Process of Control Feeling (Vedanā) in Theravāda Buddhism

open access: yesJournal of International Buddhist Studies, 2023
This article is entitled “An Analytical Study of the Process of Control Feeling (Vedanā) in Theravāda Buddhism”. It consists of three objectives, namely, (1) to examine the context and impacts of feelings in human being life, (2) to study the meaning and
Indanyani
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SIKAP DALAM MENGHADAPI KEMATIAN MENURUT AJARAN BUDDHA THERAVADA

open access: yesJurnal Ilmu Agama: Mengkaji Doktrin, Pemikiran, dan Fenomena Agama, 2019
Death is something that is sure to happen to every creature. Everyone has a different reaction to facing death. Some may be afraid, others may become anxious, the rest accept it with a strong heart.
Nur Fitriyana, Puji Riani
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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
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(Re)framing Teacher Resilience Through an Ethico‐Onto‐Epistemological Lens

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In the face of teacher shortages and early‐career teacher attrition, resilience has emerged as a central focus in preservice teacher education particularly in the Global South, where resource disparities and socio‐political instabilities worsen existing constraints.
Shwe Ye Phyo, Erika Kopp
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Meanings and practices of accountability in the international development sector: The limits of “vernacularization” in rural Cambodia

open access: yesDevelopment Policy Review, Volume 44, Issue 3, May 2026.
Abstract Motivation Accountability agendas have long been promoted through the policies and programmes of international development organizations around the world. Despite increasing scholarly interest in how political concepts, such as human rights, are “vernacularized” into local contexts, there has been little consideration to date of the ...
Tamas Wells   +3 more
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Esoteric Theravada Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2013
The achievement of independence in 1948 was in many ways a watershed in Burma’s history. At this time, a variety of Buddhist movements emerged that were part not only of a ‘Burmese Buddhist revival’, in which even the government was involved, but also a ...
Niklas Foxeus
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