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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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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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Teaching Buddhism in Britain's schools : redefining the insider role [PDF]

, 2010
Dialogical approaches to Religious Education in Britain’s schools have opened the subject to input by Buddhist insiders more than ever in its history although shortcomings remain in the way Buddhism is portrayed in the classroom.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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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
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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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Looking into water-pots and over a Buddhist scribe's shoulder - On the deposition and the use of manuscripts in early Buddhism [PDF]

, 2014
The article investigates the modes of use of early Buddhist manuscripts in a monastic environment. Based mainly on the evidence of archaeological and manuscript data from North-West India (Gandhāra) it discusses the circumstances under which manuscripts ...
Strauch, Ingo
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The Stoicism of Śāntideva: Comparisons between Stoic and Buddhist philosophy

Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 4, Page 377-399, August 2024.
Abstract Recently, due to various geopolitical events, a movement for 'decolonisation' has taken shape. In essence, this movements seeks to right the wrongs of Western colonialism. This desire has been expressed in many diverse ways depending on the context.
Lee Clarke
wiley   +1 more source

An Enquiry into the Origin of the Mahasamghika Buddhology [PDF]

, 2004
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Guang, X
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White shirts as sacred amulets: “World‐making” and “self‐making” during the Burmese political festival

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 186-205, June 2024.
Abstract Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world‐making.” The article focuses on one ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
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Ideological inequalities: Khmer culture and widows' perception of remarriage [PDF]

, 2018
To explain the enduring persistence of gender inequality, structural explanations alone are not sufficient. One must look at the realm of cultural ideas to understand the entrenched nature of female subordination.
Lee, Susan
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