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A Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Variable Importance in Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Interpersonal Mindfulness and Psychological Safety

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Numerous studies have shown that mindfulness is positively associated with relationship and sexual satisfaction. However, most have examined the benefits of intrapersonal or trait mindfulness, rather than directly investigating interpersonal mindfulness or considering polyvagal theory.
Claudia Dias Martins, Rodrigo C. Vergara, Bassam Khoury   +2 more
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Non-Violence, Asceticism, and the Problem of Buddhist Nationalism

Genealogy, 2020
Contemporary Buddhist violence against minority Muslims in Myanmar is rightfully surprising: a religion with its particular moral philosophies of non-violence and asceticism and with its functional polytheism in practice should not generate genocidal ...
Yvonne Chiu
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The Virtue of Patience

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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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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Spirits of Air and Goblins Damned: Life in the Light on the Six Realms Commentary

Religions
Scholarship in Buddhist Studies, particularly among philologists and philosophers, often overlooks cosmology, karma, and rebirth. This neglect is a legacy of a deep and long-standing anti-metaphysical spirit that pervades the empirical and philosophical ...
Alastair Gornall
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Du karma aux planètes

Moussons, 2010
In Arakan, sickness-related conceptions and therapeutic practices issuing from Theravada Buddhism, astrology, spirits cult and medicine form a meaningful and hierarchical whole.
Céline Coderey
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The Relationship Between Illegitimate Tasks and Nurse Work Engagement: The Mediating Role of Workplace Mindfulness

Journal of Nursing Management, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Aim: This study aims to explore the relationship between illegitimate tasks and nurses’ work engagement, as well as the mediating role of workplace mindfulness in this relationship. Design: This is a quantitative cross‐sectional study. Methods: The study was conducted from October to December 2023 across three tertiary hospitals in Central China ...
Meiyun Jia, Ke Song, Baojiang Zhang, Xiaona Si, Huiyuan Xue, Talat Islam   +5 more
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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.
This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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Do religious and cultural considerations militate against body donation? An overview and a Christian perspective

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 17, Issue 8, Page 1586-1595, November 2024.
Abstract The development of anatomy as a scientific undertaking appears to have left little room for religious and cultural input into the conduct of anatomical investigations. This has been brought to the fore by questionnaires regarding the willingness or otherwise of individuals to donate their bodies for dissection, with higher levels of ...
David Gareth Jones
wiley   +1 more source

An Interview with Ajahn Jotipālo: Meditation Leads to Experiential Understanding That What We Think of As Ourselves is Actually Stressful, Unstable & not Really Ourselves

Spirituality Studies, 2019
In the interview with Martin Dojčár, Ajahn Jotipālo discusses a set of issues concerning monastic life in the strict Thai forest tradition of Theravada Buddhism along with fundamental Buddhist spiritual practices and his views on interfaith dialogue ...
Martin Dojčár
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