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Beyond Buddhism and animism: A psychometric test of the structure of Burmese Theravada Buddhism [PDF]
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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Witnessing in Theravada Buddhism
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2012 This paper aims to show that the problem of personal identity is a fundamental question not only in a Buddhist tradition but in Western philosophy too. The author discovers a notion of "witnessing" includes all kinds of conscious experience, perception ...
A V Matulyak
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Human Perfection from the Perspective of Ibn Arabi's Mysticism and Theravada Buddhism Mysticism [PDF]
International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life, 2023 SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: This research explored the concept of human perfection through the lenses of Ibn Arabi’s Mysticism and Theravada Buddhism Mysticism.
Ali Jafari, Mohammad Emil
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Beyond the Mainland: An Introduction
Religions, 2022 Mention “Southeast Asian Buddhism” and what comes to mind is often Theravāda Buddhism, the dominant religion in the mainland Southeast Asian states of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand [...]
Jack Meng-Tat Chia
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Multiple Buddhisms in Ladakh: Strategic Secularities and Missionaries Fighting Decline
Religions, 2021 During fieldwork in Ladakh in July–August 2018, three authors from Asian studies, anthropology, and religious studies backgrounds researched “multiple Buddhisms” in Ladakh, India.
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg +2 more
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When Mahāyāna Meets Theravāda: The Position of Chinese Bhikṣuṇīs in Contemporary Myanmar
Religions, 2022 Mahāyāna and Theravāda are the two major traditions of Buddhism in contemporary Asia. Although they share many similar teachings, there are long-standing disputes between their respective sets of adherents, touching on doctrine, ritual, religious ...
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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Konsep Kematian dalam Perspektif Agama Buddha Theravada
Al-Adyan, 2021 This article examines the concept of death in the Theravada Buddhist perspective. Where the teachings show the stages in addressing or even the state after death.
Ali Mursyid Azisi
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Theological debate among Buddhist sects in Indonesia
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 Indonesian Buddhism has many sects such as Theravada, Mahayana, Buddhayana, Tantrayana, Maitreya, Tridharma, Kasogatan, Nichiren and so on. These sects historically come from the same source, the Buddha’s teachings, but now they have differences in terms
Abdul Syukur
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The Palm-leaf manuscripts: Non-material cultural heritage of Khmer at An Giang province
Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Khoa học Xã hội, 2021 Palm-leaf manuscripts of Khmer is one of the precious documents of Khmer Theravada Buddhism. It is considered evidence mounts that stage of the formation and development of the Buddhism satras.
Nguyễn Thị Tâm Anh +1 more
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Theology and cosmology in the Visuddhimagga of Buddhaghosa
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 The need to find clarity concerning (1) the relationship between scientific and religious cosmological discourses and (2) the imagining of a space where various religions could meet in fruitful conciliation as far as (1) is concerned, formed the basis of
Kobus Krüger
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