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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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Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 746-756, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a.
Darcie DeAngelo
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Esoteric Theravada Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2013
The achievement of independence in 1948 was in many ways a watershed in Burma’s history. At this time, a variety of Buddhist movements emerged that were part not only of a ‘Burmese Buddhist revival’, in which even the government was involved, but also a ...
Niklas Foxeus
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EDITASI DALAM AGAMA BUDDHA THERAVADA DAN MAHAYANA [PDF]

ABSTRAK Meditasi Dalam Agama Buddha Theravada Dan Mahayana Skripsi ini dilatarbelakangi oleh beberapa hal seperti perbedaan pendekatan meditasi, theravada dan mahayana memiliki pendekatan meditasi yang berbeda, sehingga menarik untuk dibandingkan dan ...
QODRAL AGMIEN, -
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Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-290, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
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Application of the Concept of Saṅkhāra (Mental Formation) in Theravāda Buddhist Psychology for Reducing Human Mental Suffering in Modern Life

Journal of International Buddhist Studies
This paper critically evaluates the concept of saṅkhāra within early Theravāda Buddhist knowledge, addressing gaps in prior studies by Bandusena Wickranmasinghe Dadanayaka and Venerable Nodhiñana, who primarily emphasize the doctrinal and causal aspects ...
Ven. Vimala (Dhammapāragu)
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Child Ordination in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay presents scholarship on the lifestyles of Buddhist young people who ordain before reaching the age of 18 or 20—ages that in many nations today signify adulthood. It covers questions about the forms of education provided young nuns and monks, the care and emotional support such children receive.
Liz Wilson
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Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand: From Buddhist chant to rap

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 292-304, August 2025.
Abstract This study explores the intersection of Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand, focusing on the transition from traditional Buddhist chant to contemporary rap. Employing Pierre Bourdieu's theories of cultural capital and the sociology of music, this article aims to show how this shift in Buddhist music mirrors broader transformations ...
Wai‐Chung Ho
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Creating a contextual approach to evangelizing Theravada Buddhists [PDF]

, 2018
MA (Missiology), North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusFor Christian apologists and evangelists to understand why the evangelism of Theravada Buddhists has been for the most part unsuccessful, it is necessary to understand the Theravada worldview ...
Grant, D.A.
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“Intelligence Running Wild”: Edward Podvoll (1936–2003) and the Unfolding of the “Contemplative Psychotherapy” Project

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 4, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the origins and development of the “contemplative psychotherapy” project in the United States, emerging around psychoanalyst Edward Podvoll and the intellectual environment at Naropa University during the 1970s and 1980s.
Tommaso Priviero
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