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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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Measuring attitude towards Buddhism and Sikhism : internal consistency reliability for two new instruments [PDF]
, 2011 This paper describes and discusses the development and empirical properties of two new 24-item scales – one measuring attitude toward Buddhism and the other measuring attitude toward Sikhism.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas +1 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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Esoteric Theravada Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2013 The achievement of independence in 1948 was in many ways a watershed in Burma’s history. At this time, a variety of Buddhist movements emerged that were part not only of a ‘Burmese Buddhist revival’, in which even the government was involved, but also a ...
Niklas Foxeus
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Analytical Study of the Process of Control Feeling (Vedanā) in Theravāda Buddhism
Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2023 This article is entitled “An Analytical Study of the Process of Control Feeling (Vedanā) in Theravāda Buddhism”. It consists of three objectives, namely, (1) to examine the context and impacts of feelings in human being life, (2) to study the meaning and
Indanyani
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The potential of Theravada Buddhism to enhance cultural tourism in Pattaya, Thailand
, 2016 This research project aims to investigate the potential for the development of tourism focused on the cultural heritage of Theravada Buddhism in Pattaya, a city in Eastern Thailand, to complement the existing tourism industry in Pattaya.
Nitinan Srisuwan (9836900) +1 more
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, 2020 Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to ...
Gornall, Alastair
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