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Building a Culture of Care in Laboratory Animal Science through practicing “remembrance”: A reflection on local practices in Sri Lanka

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 9, Page 1725-1728, September 2025.
This flowchart shows how remembrance activities create space for emotional reflection, helping individuals respect and acknowledge their feelings about working with lab animals, and enhance team commitment to improve lab animal welfare. This emotional awareness can reduce compassion fatigue fueled by cultural and religious beliefs and promote human ...
A. D. D. S. Amarasekara   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Notions of Absence, Emptiness and Nothingness from the Theravāda Buddhist Perspective

open access: yesAsian Studies
This article discusses three important concepts of ancient Indian discourse, namely absence, nothingness and emptiness, and examines their representations in Theravāda Buddhism.
Tamara Ditrich
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of the Relationship between Brain Waves in Electroencephalography (EEG) and Concentration Meditation Practice in Theravāda Buddhism

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj  

Moral Realism and Anti-Realism outside the West: A Meta-Ethical Turn in Buddhist Ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In recent years, discussions of Buddhist ethics have increasingly drawn upon the concepts and tools of modern ethical theory, not only to compare Buddhist perspectives with Western moral theories, but also to assess the meta-ethical implications of ...
Davis, Gordon Fraser
core   +1 more source

Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-290, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
wiley   +1 more source

A Concise Note on the Theory of Two Truths in Buddhism

open access: yesSoshum: Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora, 2018
The concept of two truths in the Theravāda Buddhism is found in Saṅgīti Sutta of the Dῑghanikāya, where the four kinds of knowledge are enumerated.
Tashi Dorjey
doaj   +1 more source

Exemption not Granted: The Confrontation between Buddhism and the Chinese State in Late Antiquity and the ‘First Great Divergence’ between China and Western Eurasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Starting from the end of the fourth century, the Buddhist monastic community in China entered a protracted confrontation with a variety of political regimes, Sinitic and barbarian, significantly affecting their own processes of state formation and the ...
Palumbo, Antonello
core   +1 more source

Child Ordination in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay presents scholarship on the lifestyles of Buddhist young people who ordain before reaching the age of 18 or 20—ages that in many nations today signify adulthood. It covers questions about the forms of education provided young nuns and monks, the care and emotional support such children receive.
Liz Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

Purity and impurity in nondualistic Śaiva Tantrism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Indian civilisation has been strongly characterised by the work of containment erected by the Brahmanical elite over the almost two thousand years of its grandiose attempt at culturally and so- cially dominating the Indian world as a whole.
Torella, Raffaele
core   +1 more source

Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand: From Buddhist chant to rap

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 292-304, August 2025.
Abstract This study explores the intersection of Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand, focusing on the transition from traditional Buddhist chant to contemporary rap. Employing Pierre Bourdieu's theories of cultural capital and the sociology of music, this article aims to show how this shift in Buddhist music mirrors broader transformations ...
Wai‐Chung Ho
wiley   +1 more source

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