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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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, 2014 What I do here is to explore the aesthetic reproduction of Buddhist sovereignty in pre-British Sri Lanka. My argument points to an inherent tension between the virtual sovereignty that characterizes the claims that Buddhist kingship makes, and the ...
de Silva-Wijeyeratne, R.
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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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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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His excellency and the monk: a correspondence between Nyanaponika Thera and David Ben-Gurion [PDF]
, 2009 Between the years 1956 and 1962 the scholar-monk Nyanaponika Thera and the first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion have exchanged eight long letters.
Federman, Asaf, Asaf Federman
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Gifts and Ghosts: A Derridean Reading of Theravada Communities
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2019 Because Europeans have shaped scholarly discourse about Southeast Asia and Buddhism, movement away from understanding “pure” Theravada Buddhism through religious and philosophical doctrine was a technique to decenter Western readings and shows how ...
Sokthan Yeng
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What makes you not a Buddhist? : a preliminary mapping of values [PDF]
, 2012 This study sets out to establish which Buddhist values contrasted with or were shared by adolescents from a non-Buddhist population. A survey of attitude toward a variety of Buddhist values was fielded in a sample of 352 non-Buddhist schoolchildren aged ...
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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