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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, Wolfgang Drechsler, Shobhit Shakya   +2 more
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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, Phra Nicholas Thanissaro   +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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Buddhism, Diversity and ‘Race’: Multiculturalism and Western convert Buddhist movements in East London – a qualitative study [PDF]

This study considers the development of convert Buddhism in multicultural environments. Its focus is on the encounters of people of colour (defined for the purposes of this study as people of African, Asian and Caribbean descent) with Western convert ...
Smith, Sharon Elizabeth
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A Monastery for Laypeople: Birken Forest Monastery and the Monasticization of Convert Theravada in Cascadia

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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Tea Tree Consecration Ceremony of Bulang Tradition under the Theravāda Buddhism in Laoman’e Village: An Empirical Study

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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Theravadization of Buddhayana under the discourse of modern Buddhism and Indonesian politics

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Scholars have presented the Buddhayana Movement as a diverse and localized form of Indonesian Buddhism, which was facilitated by the cooperation of transnational Buddhist networks.
Jesada Buaban, Al Makin, Evi Lina Sutrisno   +2 more
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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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