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Religion as practices of attachment and materiality: the making of Buddhism in contemporary London [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article aims to explore Buddhism’s often-overlooked presence on London’s urban landscape, showing how its quietness and subtlety of approach has allowed the faith to grow largely beneath the radar. It argues that Buddhism makes claims to urban space
Barker Eileen   +35 more
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A Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Variable Importance in Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Interpersonal Mindfulness and Psychological Safety

open access: yesJournal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Numerous studies have shown that mindfulness is positively associated with relationship and sexual satisfaction. However, most have examined the benefits of intrapersonal or trait mindfulness, rather than directly investigating interpersonal mindfulness or considering polyvagal theory.
Claudia Dias Martins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Rise of Popular Asceticism in Sinhalese Buddhist Culture: Some Significant Concepts and Practices

open access: yesIAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016
The briefest explanation that could be provided for asceticism in the original Theravada Buddhist tradition is that it is a physically and mentally lived enterprise for fulfilling enlightenment (nibbana). As such, the enterprise demands serious practical
Isha Gamlath
doaj   +1 more source

Social and historical aspects of the assimilation of Christianity in Southeast Asia from 1500-1900 with reference to Thailand and the Philippines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Though many have attempted to address the complexities of the encounter between Christianity and non-western societies, the literature has not dealt much with Southeast Asia.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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The house is coming from inside the call

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 208-219, March 2025.
Abstract You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Anthropology is a promiscuous discipline, but there are only about half a dozen ways to begin an anthropology essay.
Lachlan Summers
wiley   +1 more source

Permutations and Oblong Numbers in the Theravāda-vinaya: A New Intersection of Buddhism and Indian Mathematics

open access: yesReligions
Within the context of Indian religions, Jainism has long been recognized for its extensive use of permutations and combinations. However, the application of these principles within Buddhist scriptures has received relatively little scholarly attention ...
Wei Li, Yingjin Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Pembuatan Aplikasi Video Panduan untuk Puja Bakti Agama Budha Theravada [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Agama adalah ajaran yang mengatur kepercayaan dan hubungan dengan Tuhan Yang Maha Esa serta nilai-nilai yang berhubungan dengan norma dan tata susila.
Mastiono, Wisjaya
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The Virtue of Patience

open access: yesPhilosophy 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Notions of Absence, Emptiness and Nothingness from the Theravāda Buddhist Perspective

open access: yesAsian Studies
This article discusses three important concepts of ancient Indian discourse, namely absence, nothingness and emptiness, and examines their representations in Theravāda Buddhism.
Tamara Ditrich
doaj   +1 more source

Aspects and values of buddhism for the women of the west [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Living in India, which is not yet linked into the electronic autobahn at quite the screaming pace of the rest of the world, I received my information about this conference in two barely legible faxes, which arrived more than three weeks apart and ...
Napper, Elizabeth
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