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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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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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Buddhism, Wealth, and Privilege: Ambedkar and Habermas
Religions, 2023 This essay compares key essays on Buddhism by B.R. Ambedkar and Jürgen Habermas vis-à-vis the issue of Buddhism, wealth, and privilege, and the respective statements again to what the Buddha taught, from a Theravada perspective.
Pisith San +2 more
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Situating Narrative and Systematic Accounts of Wisdom
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2021 Preview: /Review: Steven Collins, Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined (Columbia University Press, 2020), 304 pages./ Steven Collins was in the process of finalizing his manuscript and final academic work on Buddhism when he passed ...
Kevin C. Taylor
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Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022 Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished by the absence of monasticism, its dominant institution. Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed to gain a foothold in the convert West, thanks to the efforts of convert ...
Karen Ferguson
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Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2023 This study focuses on the tea tree consecration ceremony of the Bulang ethnic people in the Laoman’e village of Xishuangbanna (Yunnan) China. The study applied the qualitative research method in the sociological approach to religious studies.
Wenen Yan
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The Problem of the Inefficacy of Knowledge in Early Buddhist Soteriology [PDF]
Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2008 Early Buddhism has been described as a “gnostic soteriology” in that itsees the chief cause of life’s unsatisfactoriness to be ignorance of certain metaphysical truths, and that once this ignorance is eliminated through awareness of the true nature of ...
Ryan Showler
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