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Abstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Anna‐Maria Frastali, Adhip Rawal
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Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism [PDF]
A critical review of the first wave of publications on Buddhism and free will between the 1960s and ...
Repetti, Rick
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Buddhism and Animal Ethics [PDF]
This article provides a philosophical overview of some of the central Buddhist positions and argument regarding animal welfare. It introduces the Buddha's teaching of ahiṃsā or non-violence and rationally reconstructs five arguments from the context of ...
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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Abstract Unjust events cause humiliation and can elicit revenge fantasies. The present study explored cultural differences between Indians and Thais expressing revenge fantasies through drawings and narratives. A matched convenience sample of 100 adults, that is, 50 participants each (35 females and 15 males) from India and Thailand were recruited. The
Meghna Girish +3 more
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Esoteric Theravada Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar
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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The mid-twentieth century was celebrated in Theravāda civilizations as the halfway point in the five-thousand-year history of the Buddha’s dispensation, the sāsana.
Tony Scott
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The Effects of Momentariness on Karma and Rebirth in Theravāda Buddhism [PDF]
In the development of Indian Buddhism we begin to see a shift away from the early Buddhist epistemology based in phenomenology and process metaphysics toward a type of event-based metaphysics.
Barborich, Adam L.
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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 ...
Berkwitz, Stephen C., Thompson, Ashley
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Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield
ABSTRACT This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a.
Darcie DeAngelo
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Buddhisme og Singhalesisk folkereligion
The symbolic relationship between the monk (bikkhu) and the lay Singhalese (dāyaka) is analysed and discussed as complementary ways of perceiving the image of Buddha and the Truth taught by Buddha.
Jørgen Østergaard Andersen
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