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Theravada Buddhism and Meditation

2020
Abstract This chapter describes texts and practices associated with meditation in Southern, or Pali, Buddhism, sometimes known as Theravada Buddhism. It explores some different approaches to meditation that characterize this form of Buddhism, as well as the textual basis for their practice and theory.
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Limits of Theravada Buddhism

Buddhist Studies Review, 1990
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Theravada Buddhism and Modernization

Journal of Asian and African Studies, 1999
The twentieth century saw a revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and India. Though in both countries it was an instrument of choice it played different roles. The Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka led by Anagarika Dhammapala (1864-1993) though a "spin-off" from the Theosophical movement, became a basis for the Simhala renaissance involving a restatement of the
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Significance of the Brahmaviharas in Theravada Buddhism

Buddhist Studies Review, 1981
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History and Gratitude in Theravada Buddhism

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2003
An inspection of several Buddhist histories (or vamsas) written in the Sinhala language in medieval Sri Lanka encourages us to reevaluate the use of emotions in religious contexts and why people write narratives of the past. This article suggests that the attention given to emotions such as gratitude in Theravada Buddhist vamsas signals that historical
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Ordination and Disrobing in Theravada Buddhism

Religions of South Asia, 2014
Much has been written about motivations for becoming a monk in Theravada societies. This article examines the other end of the process, the monk’s ‘re-entering’ society. It begins by looking at the motives for becoming a monk, and the difference between the lifelong commitment typical of Sri Lanka and the temporary ordination typical of Southeast Asian
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Personality and Ethics in Theravada Buddhism

2018
The chapter presents the oldest Buddhist Pali canon of Theravada tradition (Abidhamma) neither as a philosophy, nor a religion, but as a psychological and ethical system, within which a specific mental faculty called sati serves as a tool of discernment of ethical and unethical motivations and actions.
Dita Šamánková, Marek Preiss, Tereza Příhodová   +2 more
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The anthropological study of Theravada Buddhism

Reviews in Anthropology, 1977
Richard F. Gombrich. Precept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. viii + 366 pp. Appendixes, glossary, bibliography, and index. £4.00 (U.K.). E. Michael Mendelson. Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership.
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Samatha Meditation in Theravada Buddhism

Buddhist Studies Review, 1988
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Global Theravada Buddhism: Asian Foundations

2022
The establishment and development of Theravada in South and Southeast Asia was driven by relationships between the king, the sangha (community of monks and nuns), and the laity. It is an imaginaire through which precolonial history is seen as a time when ideal kings and an ideal sangha mutually supported each other and worked for the benefit of the ...
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