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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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Mahākāśyapa, His Lineage, and the Wish for Buddhahood: Reading Anew the Bodhgayā Inscriptions of Mahānāman [PDF]

, 2014
This article investigates the religious message of a set of inscriptions from Bodhgayā issued by Sinhalese monks in the 5th and 6th centuries ce. The long inscription of the hierarch Mahānāman, in particular, allows an in-depth understanding of this monk’
Tournier, Vincent
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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 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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Neither ātman Nor anattā: Tapering Our Conception of Selfhood [PDF]

, 2017
I provide critical discussion of conception of and talk of psychic integration which I take to be both excessive and deficient; these viciously extreme positions are championed by the Apostle Paul and St.
BRIGGS, Roman
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Confessions of a Deluded Westerner [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper, I aim to make two general points. First, I claim that the discussions in Repetti (2017) assume different, sometimes conflicting, notions of free will, so the guiding question of the book is not as clear as it could be.
Brent, Michael
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South Asian Drumming beyond Tala: The Problem with “Meter” in Buddhist Sri Lanka [PDF]

Analytical Approaches to World Music, 2018
In two conjoined articles, I argue that Sri Lanka—long passed over in ethnomusicology classes as one proceeds from India to Indonesia or vice-versa—is worthy of gaining a strong foothold in our field.
Sykes, Jim
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The Bodhisattva Ideal in Theravāda Buddhist Theory and Practice: A Reevaluation of the Bodhisattva-Śrāvaka Opposition [PDF]

, 1997
In the academic study of Buddhism the terms Mahayana and Hinayana are often set in contradiction to each other, and the two vehicles are described as having different aspirations, teachings, and practices.
Samuels, Jeffrey
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"God Is Infinite, and the Paths to God Are Infinite": A Reconstruction and Defense of Sri Ramakrishna's Vijñana-Based Model of Religious Pluralism [PDF]

, 2017
This article argues that contemporary philosophers have unduly ignored Sri Ramakrishna’s pioneering views on religious pluralism. The Bengali mystic Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) taught the harmony of all religions on the basis of his own spiritual ...
Maharaj, Ayon
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