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Significance of Doctrinal Purity: Burmese Monastic Regulatory System (Vinicchaya Trial)
Journal of International Buddhist StudiesBuddhism in Myanmar today may be characterized as conservative. Among many Buddhist schools across the world, only the teachings maintained by the Theravada sect are accepted as authentic teachings in Myanmar.
Yan Naing Linn
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 1300-1326, May 2025.ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the influence of religion on pro‐environmental behavior, little attention has been paid to the role of religious epics—that is, narratives that embody the core beliefs and moral values of religious traditions—as a mechanism for promoting such behavior.
Manish Das +4 more
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Witnessing in Theravada Buddhism
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2012 This paper aims to show that the problem of personal identity is a fundamental question not only in a Buddhist tradition but in Western philosophy too. The author discovers a notion of "witnessing" includes all kinds of conscious experience, perception ...
A V Matulyak
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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 +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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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
ReligionsScholarship 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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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 +5 more
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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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