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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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Buddhism in Five Minutes

, 2022
A short introductory essay on Pure Land Buddhism addressing its history, texts, teachings and internal ...
Dossett, Wendy
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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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Yohei Shimizu, Bodhi Tree Worship in Theravāda Buddhism, 2010

, 2011
Balbir Nalini. Yohei Shimizu, Bodhi Tree Worship in Theravāda Buddhism, 2010. In: Aséanie 27, 2011. pp.
Balbir, Nalini
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A Critical Comparison between Nāma-Rūpa and Cartesian Dualism: Theravāda Buddhist Anattā as a Critique of Descartes’ Cogito Ergo Sum

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This research article aims to present a critical study on the comparison between the concepts of nāma-rūpa and Cartesian dualism. Nāma-rūpa is a human metaphysical and epistemological concept in Theravāda Buddhism that divides the human self into non ...
Galuh Nur Fattah, Tri Saputra Medhacitto, Gonalagoda Nanda   +2 more
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The Coming of Secular Buddhism: a Synoptic View

, 2012
Secular Buddhism is coalescing today in response to two main factors. First, it rejects the incoherence of Buddhist modernism, a protean formation that accommodates elements as far afield as ancestral Buddhism and psychotherapies claiming the Buddhist ...
Higgins, W
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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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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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Prapod Assavavirulhakarn, The Ascendancy of Theravāda Buddhism in Southeast Asia, 2010

, 2010
McDaniel Justin. Prapod Assavavirulhakarn, The Ascendancy of Theravāda Buddhism in Southeast Asia, 2010. In: Aséanie 26, 2010. pp.
McDaniel, Justin
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On the Question of “Discipline” (Vinaya) and Nuns in Theravāda Buddhism

Religions, 2019
This article centers on the relationship of rules (nīti) to the monastic form of life of contemporary Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka. A genealogy of scholarship focusing on the rules of Buddhist monks and nuns has led scholars to affirm a clear-cut ...
Nirmala S. Salgado
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