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From Marginalization to Localization: Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism’s Adaptive Strategies in Theravāda Myanmar

Religions
Tension between the Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhist schools has persisted since early Buddhist times and remains a complex issue. However, recent decades have seen growing joint religious activities and cultural exchanges between followers of these ...
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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Beyond Buddhism and animism: A psychometric test of the structure of Burmese Theravada Buddhism.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Anthropologists and religious scholars have long debated the relationship between doctrinal Theravada Buddhism, so-called 'animism', and other folk practices in southeast Asian societies. A variety of models of this relationship have been proposed on the
Mark Stanford, Jonathan Jong
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Socially Engaged Buddhism of Theravada Monastic Sanga Community: A Case Study of the Bulang Buddhist Community in Laoman'e Village, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China

Journal of International Buddhist Studies
This study investigates the socially engaged Buddhism of the Bulang people in the Laoman’e village in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China.
Yan Wenen
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Karma and Causation in Theravāda Buddhism: Rethinking Determinism and External Phenomena

Journal of International Buddhist Studies
This paper reexamines the relationship between karma and causation in Theravāda Buddhism, with a focus on how karma causes external events attributed to agents. It argues against the deterministic notion that karma directly determines external phenomena,
Klairung Iso
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The roles and impacts of worldviews in the context of meditation-related challenges. [PDF]

Transcult Psychiatry, 2023
Lindahl JR, Palitsky R, Cooper DJ, Britton WB.   +3 more
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A RESPONSE TO NIETZSCHE'S CRITIQUE OF THE BUDDHIST APPROACH TO PAIN AND SUFFERING WITH A CONSIDERATION OF VEDANĀNUPASSANĀ IN BURMESE THERAVĀDA BUDDHISM

This study presents a critical study of Nietzsche’s contention that Buddhism involves a retreat from suffering. It will offer a response in the form of an examination of the approach to pain and suffering based on vedanānupassanā in Theravāda Buddhism ...
Myint, KK Aung, Kajornpat Tangyin, Tangyin, Kajornpat   +2 more
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Compassion and attachment: a comparison of max scheler and theravada buddhism

, 2022
This paper will explore how the concept of compassion is understood by the Western phenomenological tradition of Max Scheler, in contrast to how it is understood by Theravāda Buddhism.
Holger, Lammert, Giordano, John T.
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What Is non-attachment in Buddhism?

, 2022
Answer to the question, What Is Non-Attachment in ...
Jones, Dhivan Thomas
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The Problems of Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Buddhist Ethics

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
At the end of the 20th century, a discipline of Buddhist ethics was formed in English-speaking countries, within the framework of which a community of closely interacting researchers is engaged in the comprehension and systematization of ethical ...
Vlada A. Volkova
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Buddhism in Latin America

, 2017
This chapter presents an overview of developments of Buddhism in Latin America. Although not a major religion in the region, Buddhism has thrived among the tertiary-educated, white middle classes. Nevertheless, there has been a paucity of research on the
Rocha, Cristina (R11182)
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